Empower Your Educational Organization with African-Centered Parent Education & Empowerment
Focus Five! AYA's WHB Parent Training and Empowerment Series!
Full-time, part-time, home-school, after-school, weekend, or summer camps: If you educate Black youth, strong parent and staff collaboration can be your superpower. Focus Five helps you nurture this superpower for your students' academic success.
OurStory
For over 27 years, AYA has nurtured parental/school partnerships. From the very beginning, parental support training sessions were required.
Over the years, African cultural and communication education has made all the difference. Not only did we save time, but the students' academics soared because of the dual family and school partnership.
Focus Five!
Explore Our Unique Parental Support & Empowerment Training
Enhance your success by supporting parents to be more academically active, and by providing skills to help them and staff turn conflicts and communication miscues into clarity, authenticity and closeness
Module 1: Education For What?
The world is changing fast. Our education and approaches must provide a solid foundation and also rise to meet the new challenges. We engage parents with relevent educational issues and options to help them engage with staff as peers.
Each month we offer topics and speakers on Black educational development and issues.
Module 2: Parents as Story-Healers
and Story-Tellers
A parent or grandparent's "Once upon a time..." opens doors to student academic healing and success. While skillfully executed lesson plans, forms, or flip charts are required, they are dwarfed by family stories. "I'm not good at math" is an often-repeated broken family story. Healing starts with our parents and is extended via our African-centered schools.
Module 3: Parents as First Educators:
Skills & Tools
Boost your program's educational effectiveness by engaging parents as the First Educators! Together you can better align with a shared vision and you can also better address student educational wounds that may have been passed down the family line or others inflicted by oppression and/or poor instruction.
Module 4: Parents as Learning Directors
Not only are they first educators, they are always learning directors. They extend educational priviledges to teachers because they believe we have something to offer the students achieving the family mission/ vision.
Imagine the collaboration when parents ask and answer questions like:
* Education for what?
* What do I want the school or class to nurture in my children
* How will they complement the family mission?
* When there's not 100% alignment, how can I teach my child to navigate the differences?
Module 5: Parents as WHB Communicators
Parents as WHB Communicators and Conflict Resolvers
It's beautiful when parents and teachers speak the same language. It's even better when parents and teachers have skills to:
1. Teach our children to flip society's limiting and denigrating messages and thoughts
2. Become more powerful and authentic communicators
3. Teach their children and model how to untie knots in family relationships.
4. Resolve conflicts between school and family early so we become closer instead of further apart
Testimonials
Jasmine Williams
The African-centered education workshops are enlightening, and the support truly make you feel part of a strong, understanding community. Highly recommend AYA's programs!
Travis Hunter
Explored various groups before; AYA's support circles truly stand out. Their parent education classes also offer practical, relevant skills. Definitely a cut above the rest.
Unique Hamilton
AYA's Parent engagement programs are genuinely enriching—great blend of personal development and education. My communication with my kids is always exciting now.
