Shared responsibility for student learning and high achievement An effective partnership recognizes that a team can accomplish together what each partner could not accomplish alone. That's why it is important for a family-school partnership to connect learning at school and learning at home. In addition, it is just as important that schools and families recognize and actively work to eliminate the obstacles that prevent or disrupt learning, such as drugs, violence, and inadequate educational technology. The school also agrees to provide extended learning opportunities and to assign meaningful homework, with an emphasis on writing in all content areas. Signal Hill parents agree to monitor homework completion and to send students to school prepared to learn and on time.
Parents also agree to support learning at home by reading with their children every night.
Shared responsibility for effective, frequent communication between school and home Effective schools recognize that positive attitudes lead to positive communication. First, there has to be mutual agreement that parents and teachers need to communicate. Parents often feel that educators talk down to them or speak in educational jargon they do not understand. And teachers often feel that parents need to talk more about education with their children. Maintaining effective, frequent communication among families, schools, and students in a language everyone can understand is essential to building partnerships.