PAGE
Organizing and empowering parents to be their child's best advocates in education.
PAGE (Parent Action Groups for Education) is a grassroots advocacy movement that prepares parents to lead the drive for excellent public schools. PAGE began in four of the ten West Dallas public in 2010 and will expand through 2012 until all elementary and middle schools have action groups.
PAGE organizes, trains and engages parents, teachers, outreach coordinators and PTA/PTO members utilizing a core curriculum with community-building and advocacy development components infused throughout with basic community organizing. DFCC developed this curriculum in response to parent topic requests, assuring that it addresses issues specific to West Dallas (many of which are shared issues city wide), basing it on the work of researchers and community organizations around the country, such as Teaching for Change’s Tellin’ Stories project in D.C. and the Harvard Family Research Project.
PAGE has two simultaneous engagement tracks: participation in PAGE groups, and participation in the Parent Leadership Team. The purpose of the Parent Leadership Team is to engage parents who may be more advanced in their relational and advocacy abilities in developing the advocacy agenda for PAGE and FACET (DFCC’s faith community initiative in support of education transformation), as well as in guiding their own respective PAGE meetings - fostering community leadership and ownership.
