What a morning! We had almost 200 mothers join their students for breakfast and then time in the classroom. Many thanks to our fantastic school counselor for this awesome event.
We invited moms (i.e. mother figures) to join their students in the cafeteria for breakfast and then to join them in their classrooms for approximately 45 min to an hour before coming together in the cafeteria for a short parenting segment by our counselor. The moms walked to the classrooms in the arrival lines just as their children do every morning. They watched the announcements and recited the Pledge of Allegiance alongside their little ones. What a powerful moment it was.
As I walked through the hallways, there were mothers sitting alongside students in the computer lab, the guided reading tables and on the carpet for the morning circle time. Parents and students were learning together.
That very last statement is the heart and soul of why we have days like today. There is nothing more powerful than the parent-child relationship. Couple that with a strong parental involvement program at a school and the student cannot help but achieve. The family unit may not be what it was 20 years ago and we cannot change that. But what we can control is how we structure and provide these opportunities to our families to help foster and develop those relationships.
In retrospect, this morning I realized that there has been more parents in classrooms this school year alone than in the 10 previous years. One of our goals for this year was increasing parental involvement and we are well on our way.
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