The aim of the School 2 Home Communication Forum is to provide opportunities for professional dialog among district level leaders, across the nation, who are interested in utilizing parent involvement to enhance student success. S2H is primarily, a user based professional learning community, consisting predominantly of information, ideas, reports and practical strategies from the users themselves. The content on our website, eNewsletter and the focus of our web based events, seminars, and professional activities are user driven.

We are seeking school district leaders interested in sharing, with a national audience, exemplary practice regarding effective or successful initiatives in relation to school to home communication. There will be a number of opportunities, but one of the first events will be an ONLINE national webinar

The School 2 Home Communication Forum presents

School district leaders are now, more than ever, reaching out to their parent communities in new and powerful ways. What strategies utilizing these systems work best when applied to connecting with parents who are sometimes difficult to reach: Language Barriers, Cultural Barriers, At Risk, Minority and Disadvantaged.

Wednesday March 19, 2008
1PM ET (12 Central Time, 11 AM Mountain Time and 10 AM Pacific)

Presentations - 5 to 7 minutes each
We are seeking district leaders (school districts with enrolment of 10,000 +) to make a very brief presentation – power point slides and verbal explanation. Panelists with an interest in this topic will respond with questions, suggestions and ideas.

Breaking Down the Language Barrier:
Use of technology including a TV station, DVD welcome to parents - and other ideas for breaking down the language barrier.
Sloan Roach, Executive Director, Community and Media Relations
Gwinnett County Public Schools, Georgia

Opening School Doors for the Parents of At-Risk Students:
How a large South Carolina School District is reaching out to the parents of ESOL students in order to involve them in their childrens' school experience. Strategies including the use of live interpreters, techonolgy based translations and some meaningful tips on how to communicate with the Homeless population.
Melissa Rutenberg, Learning Specialist for ESOL and Family Services,
Horry County School District, Conway, South Carolina

Parent Program Managers and Parent Organizers:
A district program that is a part of the Mobile County Public School System’s Office of Home-School-Community Involvement that utilizes personnel to “reach the hard to reach parents” and increase parental involvement in schools pre-k – 12th grade with an emphasis on school improvement schools.
Paula Seldon, Parent Specialist,
Mobile County Public School System, Mobile, Alabama

District Leader D

Panelists: 4 District level panelists to respond to the presentations – sharing their own ideas, responses, ask questions and clarify ideas. School leaders from across the nation will be invited to participate.

We are seeking district level leaders interested in participating – either as presenters, panelists or viewing participants.

Please email: elearning@plcelearning.com for more information.