The videos will air on a local cable TV station and be promoted by the local Association. The Montclair Education Association is using a grant from the New Jersey Education Association to build stronger ties and greater collaboration between parents and teachers. In a pilot partnership at Glenfield Middle School, teachers are gaining skills to help them reach out to parents more effectively. The Association provides parents with materials on how to help with homework and how to get the most out of parent-teacher conferences. Once a month, the school opens early so that parents and adult friends have the opportunity to read together with children.
Local businesses support the effort by providing morning refreshments.
A 1997-98 NEA Urban Grant helped the Appleton Education Association implement a program of outreach to new parents. Hoping to develop bonds and build relationships with them, the Association provides parents of newborns with information designed to help them make sure their kids enter school ready to learn. Wyoming Natrona County. An NEA Urban Grant helped build a partnership between the Natrona County Education Association and a community group called Parents Pulling Together. Both teachers and parents have come to understand each other better.