Improving student reading achievement is a primary goal set in our school improvement plan. Partnership activities can be designed to help students meet a range of achievement goals. One-Year Action Plans are designed to help Action Teams purposely link family and community involvement to improving attendance, reading, math, science, behavior, or other important school goals. Back to top 9. We find that at different schools families are hard to reach for different reasons.
Some families are hard to reach because both parents work.
Some families are hard to reach because they have small children or elderly relatives for whom they are primary caretakers. Others are hard to reach because they have had negative experiences with the school. Still other families are hard to reach because their first language is not English. Schools across the country have developed excellent strategies to reach all families. These include home visits, scheduling meetings in community locations, flexible scheduling of school activities, providing transportation to school events, and providing baby-sitting services during school events and activities.