We're starting school uniforms, and at a parent night to discuss this issue, we had over 750 parents. We work together to mutually support the student. However, the traditional idea of parents coming to school to work in the classroom is not something we focus upon. Many of our parents work and that aspect of parent involvement is not a reality. The first is around the student.
Teachers collect a variety of work.
For instance, we collect three writing samples a year and monitor growth. We also use our districtwide tests to measure student growth. On the second level we look at a comparison with ourselves to other schools. In seven years we went from one of the lowest achieving to right in the middle on comparative scores. We are quite excited about that.