EDLD 5326 Week 5 Final Reflection

During these five weeks in EDLD 5326-School Community Relations, I've learned the requirements of Title 1 schools such as: funding, accountability, and the need to establish school-parent compacts; the school accountability system No Child Left Behind (NCLB) along with its requirements, the meaning of AYP and the school's responsibility for sharing its annual rating with the community, steps for creating a Site Based Decision Making Committee and its purpose, as well as strategies for improving parental involvement through the implementation of family-school-community partnerships. These partnerships will be essential for establishing positive relationships and "two-way communication" which will in turn improve over all student achievement. This has been evident through various research findings that prove, students whose parents are actively involved with their children and regularly participate throughout the school's decision making processes will show overall improvement in student learning, attendance, discipline, and decreased retention rates (EDLD 5326 Courseware, 2012). Lessons learned throughout the course lectures, readings, and discussions will be vital knowledge that I will utilize as I continue my graduate studies along with my endeavor of becoming a future educational leader.

Reference
Courseware, EDLD 5326. (2012). School Community Relations Week 4: Advocacy for All Students. Beaumont, TX: Lamar University.