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Affecting Real Change

in Education

By Rifka Schonfeld, Director of S.O.S.
(Strategies For Optimum Success)

Do you want to change a policy in your in the last few decades – parents who
children’s schools? hover over their children and do not
give them space to breath. Should we
Do you feel that the school is wonder- -
ful, but that small changes would make

Are you worried that your child is not
In their book Overloaded and Un-
derprepared: Strategies for Stronger
Do you feel hopeless about improving Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids,
Bulletin
authors Denise Pope, Maureen Brown,

feel (and research shows) the best bal-
One of the luckiest things that can and Sarah Miles write about what they
happen to you in life is, I think, to have ance is for school change:
a happy childhood. -

Today, parents are increasingly aware change happens when all stakehold-
ers – administrators, faculty, parents,
counselors, and students – come to-
awareness translates into a greater in-
volvement in the school and the stu- -

“helicopter parents” has also emerged