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face or online) • Learn how to help their child learn specific subject
• Through asynchronous communications matter (through on-line resources)
• Their students’ families • Purchase items and services from a school-vetted list
• By easily providing families information about to help their child succeed
• Student activities • Stay informed about school activities by participating
• Student performance in “school community”-type meetings with
• School activities administrators (live, online, or on-demand after the
• By being more accessible through online/virtual event)
meetings and conferences • Learn how their local school is performing relative to
• By being able to communicate directly with the other schools
family
Change Maker - Connected Administrator
Participative Parent The connected administrator is the CEO in the connected
The Participative Parent can be seen as a facilitator in learning community. The connected administrator rests
the connected learning community. They are connected well at night knowing that their teachers do not have to
to vital information about what is happening in school, waste valuable time doing administrative or clerical tasks
not only through information related by their child, but and can focus on their teaching and furthering their own
by connecting directly with the school. The connected learning through sustained professional development
parent can access information about all of their children activities. They are confident that quality teachers want to
by accessing a single Web site from a computer at home, at teach at their school, thereby eliminating the challenges of
work, through mobile, or even to a subset of the information attracting and retaining quality faculty.
through a phone-enabled interface to their personal space.
Important information such as school-related events can The connected administrator is connected to:
be viewed in an aggregated fashion with their personal • The community
schedule information. • Easily addressing the community through the Web
App
The Participative Parent has access: • Soliciting community input through the Web,
• From a computer at home e-mail, phones, surveys, etc.
• From a computer at work • By enabling the community to know about important
• From devices meetings through a shared community calendar
The Participative Parent can • Making meetings open to people independent of
• See what their child is doing in school location
• See how their child is doing in school • Their staff
• Schedule time to meet with teachers • Through improved performance monitoring
• Communicate with teachers easily systems
• See teachers’ feedback • Through the ability to address and solicit feedback

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