Parent Engagement Model
ACADEMIC PARENT-TEACHER TEAMS (APTT) - Grades K-5
Academic Parent-Teacher Teams (APTT) is a family engagement model, designed by Dr. Maria Paredes of WestEd, that strengthens teacher-family relationships by focusing on student academic growth and achievement. The APTT Model elevates the efforts of traditional parent-teacher conferences by inviting all families of the same classroom teacher to meet together rather than individually.
A 75-minute APTT meeting includes the following:
All parents receive materials for the practice activities to take home. After 60 days, the parents are invited back to a second meeting to receive an updated graph of every child’s progress and learn about another skill. Teachers and parents meet for APTT meetings three times during the school year.
- Team-building activity to build a rapport with and between parents and the classroom teacher
- Foundational grade-level skills that students must master by the end of the school year
- An anonymous graph of every child’s status on the skill
- The teacher modeling the activities that are targeted to improve the skill
- Parents practicing the activities together in order to use them with their child at home
- Individualized 60-day goal for their child on skills