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Parents play a significant role in their students achievement. Saginaw Public Schools parent involvement model is designed to improve student achievement by making parents and families full partners in the educational process.

Each SPS school has developed its own parent involvement plan under the direction of Natalie Jansorn, director of program development for the National Network of Partnership Schools at Johns Hopkins University. These parent, family and community involvement plans are based on the model developed by Joyce Epstein, director of the National Network of Partnership Schools.                                                                           top
         

The Epstein Model

Here is a brief description of the Six Types of Involvement in the Epstein Model:

• PARENTING: Assist families with parenting and child-rearing skills, understanding child and adolescent development, and setting home conditions that support children as students at each grade level.
• COMMUNICATING: Communicate with families about school programs and student progress through effective school-to-home and home-to-school communications.
• VOLUNTEERING: Improve recruitment, training, work and schedules to involve families as volunteers and audiences a the school or in other locations to support students and student programs.
• LEARNING AT HOME: Involve families with their children in learning activities at home, including homework and other curriculum related activities and decisions.
• DECISION-MAKING: Include families as participants in school decisions, governance, and advocacy through PTA/PTO, school councils, committee, action teams, and other parent organizations.
• COLLABORATION WITH THE COMMUNITY: Coordinate community resources and services for students, families, and the school with businesses, agencies, and other groups, and provide services to the community.

To find out if Saginaw Schools are closed due to weather conditions, watch or listen to the local media. Click here to find a list: school closing media list

Parents will also receive school closing notifications by 6:30am from our Instant Notification and Communications System. The notification service allows the district to send messages via landline phone, cell phone and pager within minutes to everyone .

• Arthur Eddy Academy (K-8)
• Coulter Elementary
• Heavenrich Elem.
• Houghton Elem.
• Longfellow Elem.
• Loomis Elem.
• Stone Elem.
• Webber Elem.
• Central Middle
• Webber Middle