Episode 2: Parent Engagement with Susan Crosier
Engaging, challenging, and empowering parents in raising well-rounded children through combining educational research to everyday life.
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on today’s episode…
Parent involvement and parent engagement are not the same. In this episode, Susan Crosier, takes a deep dive at what a beautiful parent-educator partnership can look like.
ABOUT SUSAN CROSIER
Susan Crosier is the Head of School at Grace Preparatory Academy in Arlington, Texas. Grace Prep is the flagship University-Model school, where the model was introduced in 1993.
Susan has been married for 29 years and is a mother of 2 adult children. Her daughter is happily married and is a teacher, and her son is a junior at Baylor University.
Speaking of Baylor University, Susan is currently in the education leadership doctoral program at Baylor, and her primary research area is parent engagement, making her the ideal individual to talk on the topic!
Susan has been in education for 22 years in the public and private spectrums.
To contact Mrs. Crosier, shoot her an email at scrosier@graceprep.org
INSIGHTS
How would you define parent engagement?
Provide some examples
During your journey as an educator, have you seen a shift in parent engagement?
Tell me about your school and how parent engagement plays a role in it.
Parent engagement obviously looks different in your school. What are 3 parenting strategies you believe can be applied in any academic setting?
Can you connect those strategies to how they benefit the student?
