The Parent Leadership Institute teaches parents to become partners with their local school to support their child. Parents learn how to become advocates for excellence in education - with their children and with their schools. The PLI teachers, encourages, and engages parents in their local schools because parents who feel connected to their school are parents who are connected to their children and daily homework. The PLI provides information about school curriculum, assessments, and accountability, what makes effective schools, how to address problems in schools, how to access resources, and how to work with other parents to impact change.

We Believe

• All parents want positive experiences for their children
• Parents can make a difference
• When armed with information, parents will hold themselves and their schools accountable.
• As citizens, this is a parent's responsibility

We Know

• Parents and schools must work together if our children are to succeed.
• Schools cannot do it alone.
• Parents need information, skills, and support in order to be stronger advocates for their children and their schools.

 

 

 

 

 

"The Parent Leadership Institute was like a map in a maze. I learned the educational terminology I needed to know and to understand decisions that were being made. I learned how to network and organize other parents." Toni Lewis, Class of 2008