Helping Parents Ask the Right Questions

Basic Needs

Self Actualization

Self-Esteem

Loving & Belonging

Safety

KWL

• What do you know about the parents?

• What do you want and need to know about the parents?

• What have you learned about the parents?

Questions Parents Might Ask

Take a moment to consider our discussion about the needs of the families that have joined our school community because of Katrina and Rita…Now, look at the list of questions you’ve been provided.

• Are these questions you anticipate these families will want to have answered?

• Are there other questions that need to be added to the list?

Considerations

• Current needs of the students’ families Immediate

Long term

• School-based and community-based resources available to these families

• Those issues which have the highest priority; those items that have the least

Implications for Schools

What can schools do to develop quality interactions between parents who are evacuees of Hurricanes Rita and Katrina?