Parent Involvement

RQI has pioneered a three part strategy to build parent capacity to:

  • Support their children’s education
  • Monitor their progress
  • Advocate for them when necessary

 

RQI’s strategy produced a rare combination for teaching all three skills within one educational approach. Parent organizations, federally funded parent information centers, and schools and school districts around the country have benefited from RQI’s materials and resources for increasing parent involvement in their children’s education.

For examples of the extensive work RQI has done in parent involvement, email info at rightquestion dot org for The Impact of The Right Question Institute Educational Strategy on Parents, Schools, Education Reform Organizations, Communities, and Children.

 

Learn more about our work in parent involvement and how to access the Right Question Parent Involvement Curriculum from our resources page.

 

Videos

Testimonies from parents who have used our "Asking the Right Questions Planning Calendar" to prepare for and participate more effectively in meetings at ther children's school can be found here.
 

 Voices From the Field

One impressive effort, called the Right Question Institute...prepares parents to advocate, to participate in decision-making processes and to hold decision-makers accountable...What I appreciate about the Right Question Institute is its effort to meet parents where they are. Equally important is its recognition that no system, no professionals, no individual dealing daily with large numbers of people can meet all their needs without the avid involvement of those whose needs are to be met... 

Professor Martha Minow, Dean of Harvard Law School, in The Justine Wise Polier Memorial Lecture: In the Meantime: The Gap Between Promises and Realities for Kids

I didn't know I could ask questions at the school. But, by doing that, I was able to get my son the services he needs. 

Homeless shelter resident in Massachusetts who learned to advocate for her hearing impaired son and secured an Individual Education Plan that met his needs

After I started to ask questions, I could just see the look on their faces, "how'did you get so smart?"

Parent of school child in Kentucky 

I have rights to speak up for myself + children. 

Participant in RQI's workshops through the Massachusetts Parent Training and Empowerment Project