Training

Through our training programme, Connected Education inspires parents, pupils and teachers. We:

Going into people’s homes, sitting on their sofas and drinking tea with them encouraged them to open up to a degree that we could never have anticipated. Because we were their peers, parents just like them, they didn’t feel they had to be on their guard, or like we were trying to catch them out. It was a very powerful experience.

Parent Researcher

  • Engage parents as peer researchers and reach those parents most in need and least engaged with the school.
  • Build leadership capacity with practitioners, parents and young people by increasing knowledge, skills and confidence.
  • Give a voice to parents and young people, enabling them to define and influence the development of school policy and practice.
  • Raise parental esteem through valuing parents as their child's first and most important teachers. We recognise parents and young people as 'experts by experience'.
  • Facilitate schools and parents to set up partnership projects that benefit the school community.

Our model is flexible and can be tailored to meet the requirements of individual schools or clusters of schools.