Improving Parents' Involvement in San Isidro National High School Programs and Activities through School-to-School Partnership Program for SY 2016-2017

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The action research set to explore parents' involvement to the school's programs and activities through the School-to-School Partnership Program (SSPP) between the partner schools San Isidro National High School (SINHS) and Danlagan National High School (DNHS) during the school year 2016-2017. The partnership program focused on one of the priority improvement areas of SINHS the alarming 26% of parents' involvement in the San Isidro NHS programs and activities last school year 2015-2016. Jesse (2009) exemplified the fact that in many schools, parents are engaged in the governance and planning processes in building students' achievement goals. Nonetheless, parental involvement takes place when parents actively, resourcefully and responsibly contribute to promote and develop the well-being of their communities.

METHODS

The research used a Quasi-Experimental method. The partner schools launched and conducted different pieces of training and activities for students, sharing of best practices for teachers, and the most important is the advocacy campaign/orientation for parents and stakeholders. The data which includes the records of parents' attendance during meetings and activities, also the descriptive records of amounts contributed by the parents in school's fundraising activities during SYs 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 were collected, compared and analyzed.

RESULTS

The research found out that parents' involvement in SINHS programs and activities during the school year 2016-2017 in terms of attendance to conduct meetings after the SSPP implementation had a certain degree of significant improvement after pieces of training, orientation, and sharing of best practices were imparted. On the contrary, SINHS' parents improved their interest and willingness to contribute to the fundraising programs of the school.

DISCUSSIONS

The programs and activities implemented by the Leader and Partner Schools on parents' involvement in San Isidro National High School have done so at a satisfactory level. It is, therefore, time for the school to take necessary steps to further improve and innovate parental involvement using more encouraging approaches for many participative parents.