Oregon PIRC can provide technical assistance and training to educators in our state on a variety of topics. Many of our services are delivered at no charge, but fees sometimes apply based on the nature of the request and the work scope of the grant. To request any of the Oregon PIRC services detailed below, please use our Service Request Form.

General Service Categories

• Professional development training
• Technical assistance
• Parent training sessions/workshops
• Resources and information on school-family partnerships

Specific Areas of Assistance

Develop policies for involving families in their children's learning/education

• Identify your current successes and challenges
• Conduct a needs and resource assessment
• Create a parent involvement plan that is in aligned with your school improvement goals
• Revise policies (based upon your own monitoring and evaluation)

Evaluate and refine effective parent involvement documents

• Provide guidance regarding the Parent Involvement sections of School Improvement Plan
• Review and revise your Parent Handbook
• Provide input for the Student Handbook
• Develop, review, and revise your Parent/School/Student Compacts
• Review and revise your Notification Letters (teacher qualifications, SES, school choice)

Establish a school-family-community partnerships team

• IIdentify and select team members
• Define members’ roles and responsibilities
• Develop a mission and scope of work

Planning for Youth Success: Develop a collaborative community project that promotes youth success

• Help define youth success for your community
• Initiate a collaboration with key stakeholders to plan a project designed to meet community learning goals for your students/youth
• Evaluate project outcomes

Identify and access community assets to support your school

• Map and examine assets and resources that exist in your community
• Strategize ways to develop deeper, reciprocal relationships with individuals and organizations within the community
• Share resources to support the work

Develop strategies for involving diverse families in the school community (including school leadership, decision making, school improvement planning and policy development)

• Understand what it means to authentically engage culturally and linguistically diverse families in leadership at school
• Assess current strategies for involving families in decision-making process and school planning
• Develop goals for engaging culturally and linguistically diverse families in these processes
• Learn effective tools and strategies for developing leadership with diverse families

Classroom to Community and Back: Infuse students’ home, family and community culture into the classroom

• Examine the role culture plays in teaching and learning
• Understand what it means to be culturally responsive
• Increase your abilities to understand the diverse cultures of your students and their families
• Develop teaching strategies and curricula that draw on the knowledge, skills, experiences, and culture of students, families and communities in ways that meet academic standards and engage students and families

Establish a professional learning team/critical friends group focused on diverse family involvement

• Convene a professional learning team and establish team protocol
• Share resources, articles, or books that meet team interests/school needs

Develop a cadre of effective parent leaders in your school, allowing parents to:

• increase their knowledge about their rights and responsibilities under NCLB
• learn about the school system in Oregon
• develop opportunities to participate significantly in their children’s education
• build their leadership skills

To request any of the Oregon PIRC services detailed above, please use our Service Request Form.