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1. Our school has friendly signs inside and outside to welcome families and visitors in the multiple languages they speak.

2. Our school and PTA translate communications into the school’s major languages.

3. Families feel encouraged to volunteer.

4. Families feel our school’s policies and programs reflect, respect, and value the diversity in our school community.

5. Families feel they are treated fairly regardless of age, gender, race, or cultural background.

6. Our school and PTA communicate with families in multiple ways (e.g., email, phone, web site).

7. Our school provides interpreters for all meetings and events, when needed.

8. Our school provides continuous staff development regarding effective communication techniques and the importance of regular, two-way communication between the school and family.

9. Families feel they have two-way conversations with school staff about student strengths, areas for improvement, learning styles, progress, and other concerns about their child.

10. Families feel schools provide information about student progress, including report cards that help them understand how they can support their children’s learning.

11. Our school involves parents in planning for transitions to elementary school, middle school, high school, or post-secondary education or careers.

12. Our school provides a range of options and choices for a wide array of extracurricular activities that reflect student interests, goals, and learning.

13. Our school uses adequate technology to meet the needs of today’s students.

14. Our school shares student achievement data with families in ways that solicit their ideas about how to improve achievement.

15. Our school includes students in parent-teacher conferences as active participants in discussions of expectations and work quality.

16. Families feel they understand the academic standards their child is expected to meet and how the curriculum is linked to those standards.

17. Our school informs families of the process and/or procedures to raise concerns and resolve problems.

18. Our PTA fuels parent participation on school district, state, and national committees that focus on education issues

19. Families feel our school treats their concerns with respect and demonstrates a genuine interest in developing solutions.

20. Families feel our school and/or PTA provides opportunities to develop relationships and raise concerns with school district leaders, public officials, and business and community leaders.

21. Families feel PTA promotes opportunities to empower parents to advocate for the success of their own child and other children in our school.

22. Families feel the school provides information and opportunities to be informed of their rights and responsibilities under federal and state laws.

23. Our school includes parents with equal representation on decision making and advisory committees or councils.

24. Our school establishes policies that recognize and respect families’ cultural, ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic diversity.

25. Families feel they are collaborative partners that share in the decision making for areas such as policy, curricula, budget, school reform, safety, and personnel.

26. Families feel they have input in the development of our school improvement plan.

27. Our school and/or PTA distributes information on community resources that serve the cultural, recreational, academic, health, social, and other needs of families within the community.

28. Our PTA has partnerships with local businesses, community organizations, and service groups to advance student learning, or assist the school or families.

29. Our PTA involves community members in school volunteer programs.

30. Our school collaborates with community services and adult learning opportunities.

31. Families feel the school is a central part of their community.

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