Our Bond With You - Columbia Heights Educational Campus

Parents

Parents are an integral part of the partnership between home and school. Parents reinforce lessons learned  in school relating not only to academic subjects, but also to character, values, and behavior.  CHEC supports values and cultural patterns that are learned at home, endeavoring to balance the needs of individual students and families with those of the  School community.

CHEC strives to help parents to understand and participate appropriately in the educational experience of their children. The commitment to parent education begins in the admissions process and continues with mailings and electronic communications, workshops, and activities in each grade. These initiatives contribute to smooth transition for students and families at entry levels and between grades. Once children are enrolled,  parents are kept informed of their child’s progress through conferences and reports, and informational evenings and orientation sessions introduce parents to administrators, faculty and staff. Various grade-level programs help families to understand  the School’s expectations of students and families.

The organization through which parents contribute to the life of the School is the CHEC Parent Student Teacher Organization (PTSO). All parents and/or guardians of current  CHEC students are members of the PTSO.

"When parents are involved in their children's education at home, they do better in school. And when parents are involved in school, children go farther in school and the schools they go to are better."

- A New Generation of Evidence: The Family is Critical to Student Achievement.
(Henderson & Berla)