Facts About “I Care”
- A research-based, Three-in-One Curriculum that accelerates parental involvement, character development, and community involvement. “I Care” was developed from over 30 years of parental involvement research and 12 years of school implementation in over 100,000 classrooms in 35 states and Puerto Rico. Over one million parents receive “I Care” Positive Parenting Activities from schools each month.
- School-tested integrated processes and tools that accelerate, measure, document, and evaluate parental involvement monthly for each student, classroom, school, and school district which include well-defined components for family, school, and community.
- State-of-the-art On-Line Data Management Service that measures positive interactions that occur at home between parent (or caring adult) and child.
- The “I Care” Community Component enables the community to teach, reinforce, and model the same monthly character traits being taught, reinforced, and modeled at home and at school.
- Increases character-building parenting skills and parenting accountability.
- Reinforces reading, character-building, and work ethics.
- “I Care” meets and exceeds No Child Left Behind requirements.
- Two dissertations have validated increases in student achievement.
- Includes grade-level curricula from Toddler (2- & 3-year-olds) through 12th Grade.
- Includes grade-level Positive Parenting Workbooks from Toddler through 6th Grade.
- Spanish Curricula (Toddler through 5th Grade) and Spanish Workbooks (Pre-K through 5th Grade).
- Olinder Elementary in San Jose, California received the Hoffman Award for Excellence for “I Care” Parental Involvement, 2006-2007.
- The Council for Leaders in Alabama Schools (CLAS) recognized Oakdale Elementary in Tuscaloosa, Alabama as Banner School of the Year in 2003-2004 for outstanding “I Care” Parental Involvement.
- Wilkes County Schools in Wilkesboro, North Carolina implemented “I Care” in all 13 of their elementary schools (2006-2007). One of their schools (Traphill Elementary) attained 100% parent participation for two consecutive months. Combined, all schools have trained (95%) of their parents (~5200 students) and their parental involvement, participation, and positive teacher-parent contacts continue to increase each month.
- “I Care” has been implemented successfully in the Even Start Program in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- “I Care” has been implemented in over 75 Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and contract schools over the last nine years (representing 65% of the BIA schools).
- “I Care” is on the list of Title I Promising Parental Involvement Programs in Georgia and in Texas.
- “I Care” Schools make and exceed Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) requirements.
