How Do Parents Become Involved?

All schools have a Parent Teacher Association (PTA), this organization creates a place where parents can come and work with their children's teachers in order to create a safe, successful, and nurturing environment for all students. The PTA helps the school fund-raise and create community engagements that will ultimately provide the school and its students with more opportunities. The PTA meets once a month in most schools and all parents and guardians are welcome to attend.

Look out for school communications. Most schools send out letters and fliers, have created email lists and newsletters, and regularly update their websites to keep parents informed. Communication from the school comes at least once a month. These notices include information related to; school activities, report card distribution, back to school and parent nights, and after school programs and social activities.

Take the initiative to contact your child's teachers, if you don't hear from them, send a note to school with your child or make a call to the school's main office. All teachers within the school system have an email address and the school directory can be found at: here. Sometimes simply dropping by the school and having a chat with your child’s teacher is a good way to check on your student's progress.

City Programs that Offer Parental Support

Baltimore City Public Schools has proudly partnered with the following organizations in order to help assist parents in resolving or troubleshooting any particular issues their children may be having. The following parental sites link to topics ranging from health and discipline, to education and safety:

• Positive Parenting
• The National Parenting Center
• Parenting.org 
• Parent News