According to research parental and community involvement play a crucial role in student performance and school safety. The Parents as Partners module is designed to address this issue by providing strategies and resources to increase parental involvement. The module dives deep into your Parental DNA developing a partnership for student success. The Parents as Partners module is designed to explore ways that parents can become more involved and active. 
 
The module goes deep into your parental DNA actively exploring ways to increase the awareness of the different kinds of parental involvement, factors that limit parental involvement, and ways to increase parental involvement. Whether in a supportive or active role, parental involvement can mean very different things, depending on one's perspective. Teachers may want parental involvement in the form of support regarding discipline issues. Parents may see parental involvement as making major decisions in the school. The truth is that parental involvement can and should take many forms. 
 
The module explores various ways to involve parents as partners. Parents are their child's best advocates. Parents' feeling comfortable with contacting teachers on a regular basis about their children's progress is the first step to becoming involved in their children's education. The School must make parents feel comfortable. Armed with good information about a child's performance, parents can proceed in both direct and indirect ways to influence the child's progress and to work more closely with the school.