Aldine’s Family and Community University is Already Making Strides in its Second Year

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With November underway, Aldine’s Family and Community Engagement (FACE) Department is already one month into their second year of their Family and Community University program. The program was created to offer Aldine ISD families opportunities to learn various skills that will help both the home, and school lives of the students.

After a successful first year, FACE officials spent the summer looking to further expand upon the successes of the program. The year has just started, and already there have been plenty of successes.

The first week of classes saw 110 parents enroll into a multitude of programs the university offers, 10 of which have already completed all the requirements for May’s graduation. Within the various courses that were selected, an “Instructional Paraprofessional for Parents” course was provided for the first time. In fact, from taking the paraprofessional classes, two parents applied for a position within Aldine ISD, and one of them has already been hired.

The list of firsts did not end with the paraprofessional course. FC University also offered new courses that taught parents how to engage in more productive parent-teacher conferences, and partnered with Blanson CTE to provide “Literacy Computer Skills” courses for parents. These are both areas parents have expressed wanting to better support their child’s school life; furthermore, the university’s partnership did not end with Blanson. They also partnered with two local churches to provide more parents with ESL courses. Parents of the communities began enrolling during the month of October, and FCU is now set to begin those classes on November 28, with 213 parents.

The Family and Community Engagement Department is committed to helping all families of Aldine, and the FC University is just another way in which they hope to accomplish this goal. Through the program, they are able to provide assistance in various aspects of home and school life, but they are also able to build relationships within the district. Many of the parents who enroll in FCU classes also go on to volunteer and become more active with both AISD and their own community events.

If you would like to see more information about the Family and Community University, click here.