Community Outreach is defined as the donation of time or

resource to benefit a community or its institutions, such as

nonprofit, civic or community-based organizations in an
effort to improve the equality of life for community residents.
Community Outreach holds a very important role in the
community, so the people who reside and work there will be
knowledgeable about what is happening in their community,
how it affects them, their input, and role that they play in it,
etc.
Community Outreach allows the people to have a sense of
belonging, being acknowledged and not forgotten. As well
as, it makes the people better appreciate their surroundings,
take care of it, and become better citizens for the greater
good.
Therefore, it is imperative to inform/update parents on what
their children are learning for every new unit. Here at P.S. 1
my fourth grade team has various strategies in place for
reaching out to parents. We have monthly newsletters, that
informs parents of what their children are learning for each
new unit. We have Parent-Teacher Conference every
Tuesday, after school. Also, we have workshops that teaches
parents how to use programs like Myon, Sadlier Connect, and
the different resources available for their children. As a
result, of this movement it allows the parents to get involved
in their childrens work and have an input in it. They are not
left out. It goes beyond just dropping their children off at
school; the parents have a sense of what their children are
learning pass the entrance doorways of the school.
This newsletter sets the path for parents to become active in
their childrens work. For example, there are workshops to
give parents hands on experience on how to be of assistance
to their children at home, when it comes to their academics.
Having taught in the school system for years I discovered
that most parents has difficulties helping their children with
their school work because they do not understand how to

help them. So by designing workshops that provides hands

on work to model to the parents, it will make them become
confident and have a better understanding on how to service
their children when it comes to school work. The newsletter
is used as another tool of the teacher communicating with
them.