Improving Student Efficacy Through Engaged Parents and Innovative Community Partnerships

1. Improving Student Efficacy Through Engaged Parents and Innovative Community Partnerships • Mechelle Bryson, Ed.D., Gretchen Pace, and Penny Tramel • ACET Conference • October 30, 2013

3. We Live In Challenging Times • Achievement Gaps • Attitude Gap • Equity Gaps • Engagement Gaps • Opportunity Gaps

4. Who Is Coppell Middle School West? Student Population

5. Who Is Coppell Middle School West? Demographic Data

6. Our Vision for Our Schools • A Place Where Learners Do Not Power Down to Learn • A Place Where Learner Choice and Voice is Honored • A Place Where Customization is the Norm, Not the Exception • A Place Where Relationships are Cultivated Through the Unique Story of Every Learner • A Place Where Demography Doesn’t Determine a Child’s Destiny

7. Future-Ready Learners • “The current and future health of America’s 21st Century Economy depends directly on how broadly and deeply American reach a new level of literacy – 21st Century Literacy – that includes strong academic skills, thinking, reasoning, teamwork skills, and proficiency in using technology.” • 21st Century Workforce Commission National Alliance of Business

8. THERE IS A HIDDEN VARIABLE REGARDING LEARNER AND CAMPUS SUCCESS.

9. IT IS EFFICACY • Beliefs matter • Self-efficacy is a powerful belief system that can make a difference in our schools • Self-efficacy beliefs can predict motivation • Self-efficacy beliefs can predict learning outcomes.

10. Self-Efficacy Is • The “beliefs in one’s capabilities to organize and execute a course of action required to produce a given attainment” (Bandura, 1997). • Part of an individual’s self system that enables the individual to evaluate her/his performance (Bandura, 1986,1993,1997).

11. SELF-EFFICACY AFFECTS ON THE INDIVIDUAL • Choice of behavior • People tend to avoid engaging in a task where their efficacy is low, and generally undertake tasks where their efficacy is high. • Effort expenditure and persistence • The stronger the perceived self-efficacy, the more vigorous and persistent are people’s efforts. • Thought patterns and emotional reactions • Perceived self-efficacy also shapes causal thinking. High efficacy people attribute failure to insufficient effort; low efficacy attribute failure to deficient ability. Bandura, 1986

12. Self-Efficacy Matters • Fun Slide or Quote

13. Genesis: Our Story Begins • What? A Need for Change • How? Reinvent How We Served Our Learners • Who? Stakeholders • Where? Bring it to Them • When? NOW! • Why? Bridging the Gap

15. Creating Community Partnerships • Past Efforts: • Irving Bible Church • CMS West • Put The Pieces Together

16. Our Story Continues School Community Learner Home

17. Purpose of Program • Increase Parent Involvement • Increase participation in Academic Tutoring • Build Stronger Relationships • Close Gaps • Sense of Belonging

18. Parent Benefit • Trust • Relationship with School • Partnerships

19. Parent Involvement • Family participation in education was twice as predictive of students’ academic success as family socioeconomic status. Some of the more intensive programs had effects that were 10 times greater than other factors. • Walberg (1984) in his review of 29 studies of school–parent programs.

20. Meta-Analysis Studies show that when parents are involved students have: • Higher grades, test scores, and graduation rates • Better school attendance • Increased motivation, better self-esteem • Lower rates of suspension • Decreased use of drugs and alcohol • Fewer instances of violent behavior • Parent Teacher Association

21. Belief Matters!

22. THE GREAT NEWS! • Is that efficacy can be altered • Is that efficacy can be cultivated • Is that efficacy should be cultivated

23. Efficacy can be fostered and promoted through the four sources of efficacy information • Mastery Experiences • Vicarious Experiences • Verbal Persuasion • Psychological State (Bandura, 1977; 1986; 1993; 1995; 1997)

24. MASTERY EXPERIENCES • Authentic Mastery Experiences • Achievements • Actual Performance • Direct Experiences

26. Vicarious Experiences • Observing Others • Modeling • Media

28. VERBAL PERSUASION • Affirmation • Feedback • Timely • Relevant • Specific • Accurate • Clear Concise Expectations

29. Verbal Persuasions at Work

30. EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCEPSYCHOLOGICAL STATE • Anxiety • Stress • Mood • Fatigue • Arousal

32. Outcomes • Attendance, failure rate, grades data • Learner participation & retention • Educator participation & retention • Relationship have improved between learners and educators, students and school and parents and school as well as deepened relationship

33. Expansion • Expansion to Terrific Tuesday • Expansion of Wrangler Wednesday

34. Next Steps • College Visits • First generation club • Build alignment with Elementary School about building a culture of college. • Parent groups 

35. Immigrant Students and iPads Initiative Improving Student Academic Fluency through Technology.

36. Genesis: A New Beginning • Many are Under-served • Many are Under-resourced • Assimilation is complex

37. Genesis: A New Beginning • What did we do? • What was our Purpose?

38. Genesis: A New Beginning • What did we do? • What was our Purpose?

39. The Five P’s of Supporting Change Initiatives • Permission • Protection • Processes • Patience • Persistence

40. Change Is The Name Of The Game • Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix. Christina Baldwin

41. Work Cited • Bandura, A. (1977). Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. Psychological Review, 84(12), 191-215. • Bandura, A. (1986). Social foundations of thought and action: A social cognitive theory. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall. • Bandura, A. (1993). Perceived self-efficacy in cognitive development and functioning. Educational Psychologist, 28(2), 117-148. • Bandura, A. (1995). Self-efficacy in changing societies. New York: Cambridge University Press. • Bandura, A. (1997). Self-efficacy: The exercise of control. New York: W. H. Freeman. • http://www.michigan.gov/documents/Final_Parent_Involvement_Fact_Sheet_14732_7.pdf