Pushor, D. (2008, April). Parent knowledge, knowledge of parents: Enhancing our school landscapes. Keynote address, Scarborough Parent Conference, Toronto, Ontario.
In my address to parents/guardians, trustees, and school board personnel in the Toronto District School Board and the Toronto Catholic School Board (Wards 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22) I focused on the critical need to use parent knowledge to enhance our success in making schools safer and more culturally responsive and in improving educational outcomes for all students.
Pushor, D. (2008, April). Building parent knowledge, tapping into parent knowledge. Working together for our children’s success. Panel member, Scarborough Parent Conference, Toronto, Ontario.
In this panel discussion, we explored how educators and parents can tap into the power of parent knowledge by building trusting and collaboration partnerships in school communities.
Pushor, D. (2008, March). What does “parent engagement” really mean? Invited address, Saskatoon Public School Division, School Community Councils, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
In this session with principals, teachers and school council members, I focused on differentiating between the conceptualization and practices of parent involvement and of parent engagement.
Pushor, D. (2008, March). Parent knowledge, acKNOWLEDGing parents. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.
In this session, I shared research findings from my narrative inquiry into parent knowledge. I featured key strands of parent knowledge that have become apparent in my analysis of field text: intimate knowledge of children, intimate knowledge of teaching and learning, a knowledge of self as parent, cultural knowledge, the important place of values in one’s knowing, the influence of passions in one’s knowing, and principles to live by that guide what parents do and why they do it.
Pushor, D. (2008, March). Parent knowledge: Principles to live by. Roundtable discussion at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.
In this roundtable discussion, I focused on one strand of parent knowledge – principles to live by – sharing principles which guided the knowledge and actions of the three parents/parent partners in my narrative inquiry.
Pushor, D. (2008, February). Parent engagement: Impacting educational outcomes. Keynote address, Manitoba Education, School Program Division, Instruction, Curriculum and Assessment Branch, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
In this session, I shared a synthesis of research that illuminates what it is specifically in the involvement/engagement of parents that can be linked to improved student achievement, and educational outcomes such as retention in school, completion of courses, high school graduation rates, and so on.
Pushor, D. (2008, February). Lighting the path: Leadership development for principals. Invited full day address, Manitoba Education, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
In this session, I facilitated a process in which principals made explicit their assumptions and beliefs about the place and voice of parents in their schools and then examined the implications of these beliefs in defining/redefining the roles and responsibilities of leaders, staff and parents in their schools.
Pushor, D. (2008, February). Community engagement: We are all family. Invited address, Winnipigow School, Hollow Waters Reserve, Manitoba.
Parents, educators, staff, community and family members joined together to explore their current practices with parents in relation to involvement and engagement, invitation and hospitality, and trust and relationships.
Pushor, D. (2008, February). Learning from what parents know. Keynote address, Preschool Information Registry Services Annual Conference, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
In this session for preschool and family educators in public, private and community-based organizations, I explored how parent knowledge can be used to co-construct a curriculum that is reflective of and responsive to the families for whom it is designed. I modeled ways to invite parents and family members into the telling and writing of birth or adoption stories, name stories and family stories to bring a curriculum of lives into the family/early learning setting.
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