St. Louis Adult Learning & Continuing Education Centres
Schools Parent Involvement Committee
- Catholic PIC Membership Memo
- WCDSB PIC Application Form
- Ministry Parent Involvement Policy Memo – Oct. 30/09
Making Connections:
Parents are the first educators of children and as such should have a prominent
place in the formal education of their children at school. Parental
involvement in students’ education has many advantages for children
and research suggests that where parents are involved in a significant way,
children learn better and more, have a positive attitude toward school and
learning and stay in school longer.
Where strong links are established between home and school student achievement
flourishes and consequently schools do likewise. By supporting schools and
learning, parents contribute to good behaviour, academic growth and student
success on many levels.
The Waterloo Catholic District School Board is committed to working together with parents in partnership to promote faith formation and student learning. Encouragement to participate in your children’s education is a prime concern for the Board and to this end many initiatives have been started in the past and many more are planned for the near future. Catholic school councils have been active in our schools since 1995 and the scope of their accomplishments in promoting the faith; academic excellence and parental involvement have been awesome.
A new initiative, emerging from the Ministry of Education policy on parental involvement has begun within the Board and this has taken the form of a Parental Involvement Committee – PIC. PIC is an official committee of the Board and meets regularly during the school year.
What is PIC?
PIC is a committee of parents who have been meeting regularly throughout the current school year. The first members of PIC were appointed by the Board from current school councils with future PIC members to be elected from within the Board. The majority of members are parents and the committee is chaired by a parent.
The mandate of PIC is to increase parental involvement in all schools within the board and to make that involvement meaningful and productive for student learning and engagement. Parent Involvement Committees are required to advise the Director of Education for the Board on ways to increase parental involvement in the following ways:
- Creating an annual implementation plan at the start of each school year to facilitate participation at the school and board levels
- Developing strategies to help school councils reduce the barriers to parental involvement in their child’s education.
- Establishing a protocol on information dissemination to parents and school councils.
- Producing and distributing a directory of parent organizations (ethnic, advocacy and student needs) to all school councils
- Providing an annual report to the district office of the Ministry on parental involvement in the school board, including a summary of involvement in each school.
Documents
- Ministry Policy on Parent Engagement
- Ministry Funding and Advisory Board
- Parent Engagement Initiatives Memo
- Parents Reaching Out Grants
Sample Successful Parent Reaching Out Grant
- Holy Family
- Monsignor R.M. Haller
- Our Lady of Lourdes
- St. Aloysius
- St. Ambrose
- St. Boniface
- St. John
- St. Mary's High School
- St. Matthew
- St. Patrick
- St. Timothy
- St. Vincent de Paul
Upcoming Agenda
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Archived
Members
PIC Initiatives and Upcoming Events
Parent Tip Sheets
Glossary of Terms
Online Resources for Parents
Contact
Click here to contact the Chair of the Committee by e-mail: chair.pic@wcdsb.ca
