remember to ACT
“Teachers were blaming parents, parents were blaming teachers, there was a lot of blame and a lot of hurt,” Gonzalez recalls.
Then the parents met Sacramento ACT, an interfaith community organizing group, and they started exploring home visits as a way to bridge the chasm between parents and their children’s teachers. Some teachers, they discovered, were already visiting parents at home and these teachers felt that the parent support that developed at those conversations helped them tremendously in the classroom.
So the parents, several teachers, and representatives of ACT went to the Sacramento City Teachers Association and together they worked out a proposal for a home visit program. The union wanted to be sure educators would be paid for their extra work, and that the whole program would be voluntary—the parents supported both.
Then parents and teachers approached the school superintendent. As Gonzalez recalls, the superintendent told them the union would never agree. He was wrong, they informed him. The union was already on board. He was still reluctant. But the group persuaded the superintendent to try some home visits himself. According to Gonzalez, that’s what won the day: “He said, ‘I get it. I see the power of this.’” And with $100,000 in district funds, the home visit program was born in Sacramento.
these people are SICK
SHIELD
>.40k threading, right?
psst
..veanea is an EDUCATION SYSTEM
based in..
VIRGINIA!!