Vision:  To enable, educate and empower parents, families and communities to access district resources to aid in assisting their children in achieving academic proficiency, college and career readiness.

Mission: The PF&CS is dedicated to creating and supporting partnerships among schools, families and the community. As a central resource for family engagement, PF&CS will strive to engage and inform parent leaders and families as essential partners in helping students achieve academic proficiency, college and career readiness.

Primary Role and Responsibilities:

• Work with schools to develop parental engagement and strategies for academic achievement, e.g. understand and review student performance data

• Work with schools and communities to develop and implement School Advisory Councils

• Establish, support and manage Parent Resource Centers

• Provide translation and interpretations services for schools, students and families

• Work with schools and communities to train families on districts protocols, processes and procedures

• Identify and develop new partnerships and continue to foster existing ones; sponsorships, school resources and professional development opportunities

• Collaborate with schools, principals and central offices to implement a data driven curriculum aligned to parent learning needs to increase student achievement through the District's Parent University.

• Provide front-end information about District Services, Initiatives and Programs acting as a link between customers and appropriate District offices and working directly with schools and academic divisions to address parental questions and concerns.

 Functions:

• Responsible for overseeing the District's Main Call Center and Parent Family Resource Center.

• Responsible for developing community awareness and recruitment of parents to participate in the various classes to increase student achievement.

• Manage Parent University operations with internal and external partners.

• Communicate with all District's Departments to address parental concerns.

• Support multilingual families, including refugees, and ensure education access equity for ELL student.

• Provide written translation in 8 official languages (Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, French, Khmer, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese);
  

Parent Family Resource Centers

Important Parent Information

Parent Engagement Opportunities 

• Parent University for 2012-2013 School Year

Course Descriptions

Course Schedules

• What's New and Current

• Join a School Advisory Council

Parent Resources

• School Calendar for 2012-2013 School Year

• Directory of Schools

• Directory of Offices

• Tips for Parent-Teacher Conferences

• Common Core Standards