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In what practical ways do you and/or your school currently support parents? What benefits have you seen from this?
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We are currently in the process of moving buildings, and our new building is farther away than we were last year. We have started a committee involving parents to figure out what works best for them transportation wise (bus, car-pool groups, early drop off, etc.).
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One of the ways that I have seen the current school that I have been serving in connect with parents is through regular communication. There are times when parents are brought together as a sort of community for events etc. I think that this encourages parents to know that not only their children but their family is a part of something bigger.
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We have some parents that love to come help in the classrooms and with tasks around the school. Honestly I think we could do a much better job including the parents. We have great communication avenues with the parents with newsletters, email/text communication. We also work around parents work schedules for conferences with before and after school options and many teachers stay after 5 to meet with parents who work.
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The middle school that I teach at offers occasional workshops on various parenting topics, we have in-person or video meetings with parents in the fall and spring, and have a special half day where parents can accompany their children to abbreviated courses (we also offer a similar day for grandparents/grandfriends in the spring). Both parents and grandparents really appreciate the possibility of experiencing some of what their child lives on a daily basis, particularly at the middle school age where student sharing about daily activities at school might not be so open with parents.
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Our parents are very involved with our school. We have parent nights, have them come in for chapels, have question an family nights.