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It argues for adding leadership training and opportunities to family literacy and parent involvement initiatives to give parents a meaningful voice and help educators view parents as equal partners. 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Grinder  \nIntroduction  \nNearly 30 years of research points to the formative role parents can play in their children’s education. Studies cite benefits such as higher test scores and grades, increased graduation and attendance rates, better social skills, and improved behavior (Fan & Chen, 2001) . These kinds of findings have led to educational policies and funding that require schools to incorporate parent involvement programs. Parents can be involved in schools in many ways but leadership activities are one way to meaningfully engage parents; they are especially relevant for parents who have traditionally been excluded from school-based activities due to racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic inequality (Crozier, 2001). Parent leadership can simultaneously offer parents a place to take up topics that they consider important and to learn more about schools and academic content.  \nSelf-efficacy, agency, social capital, social networks, and literacy enable people to advocate more effectively (Krishna, 2001) for communities, families, and children, and may also increase families’ long-term well-being. Leadership experiences can help parents to expand these capacities.  \nIn this brief we argue for incorporating leadership training and opportunities into parent involvement and family literacy programs, first as a means to support parents in having a meaningful voice in  \nsocial and educational issues and second to offer educators a better understanding of the benefits of working with and supporting parents as equal partners in school and community endeavors. Ultimately, we argue that family literacy programming is an ideal venue to develop and offer parent leadership opportunities.  \nBackground  \nParent involvement is often necessary to supplement what schools are no longer able to afford due to increased diversity, funding cuts, and fewer resources (Auerbach, 2012b; Griffith & Smith, 2005) . As parents are asked to increase participation in schooling, educators need to look for substantive opportunities to engage parents, so that parents may be afforded the choice to move from rowing the boat to steering the boat (Osborne & Gaebler, 1992, p. 32) . The school or program culture often influences the welcome perceived by parents and local community members, the acceptance of their voices, and the effectiveness of leadership programs (Henderson, Mapp, Johnson,& Davies, 2007) . Parent involvement activities need to reflect the diversity within the school population since race, socio-economic status, and culture shape how parents participate in their children’s education and schools (Auerbach, 2012a) . Families, schools, and communities working in partnership tend to be more fruitful in supporting  \nchildren’s school success (Henderson et al., 2007) . Yet, schools frequently offer token involvement opportunities that placate or use parents rather than offering them the power to effect change through partnership or control (Auerbach, 2012a) .  \nParent Leadership  \nIn the literature, parent involvement, parent engagement, and parent leadership are often used interchangeably; the most commonly used term is parent involvement. However, parent engagement and leadership suggest a mutual partnership between school personnel and parents as they work together to determine and achieve common goals, whereas parent involvement activities are primarily realized on the school’s terms (Pushor & Ruitenburg, 2005) .  \nParent Involvement  \nParent involvement, the “standard model” of how parents participate in schools (Henderson, Jacob, Kernan-Schloss, & Raimondo, 2004, January, p. 9-10), typically includes activities such as attending PTO meetings, fundraising, and volunteering in the classroom. These unpaid activities help make schools financially and academically successful (Griffith ","cbCailBEexv7TFR6","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailBEexv7TFR6","pdf",715613,"English","# Introduction\n# Background\n# Parent Leadership\n# Parent Involvement\n# Parent Engagement\n# Parent Leadership","[{\"question\":\"What does the guide say about the impact of parent involvement on children’s education?\",\"answer\":\"The guide cites research linking parent roles to higher test scores and grades, improved graduation and attendance, better social skills, and stronger behavior.\"},{\"question\":\"How does parent engagement differ from parent involvement in the guide?\",\"answer\":\"Parent engagement positions parents to have a voice as partners in issues affecting their children and schools, while parent involvement is often realized on the school’s terms with more one-directional communication.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the guide define parent leadership and its key components?\",\"answer\":\"Parent leadership is described as a form of engagement where parents can become leaders, defined as a process of exercising influence to achieve goals. Key components include collaborative decision making, building knowledge of systems and power relationships, and developing advocacy skills.\"}]","Practitioner’s Guide - 6 - Parent Engagement and Leadership Opportunities | PDF",1792051057]