{"id":22123,"date":"2021-01-08T20:58:06","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T20:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.xello.world\/blog\/parental-involvement-student-success\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T04:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T09:55:09","slug":"parental-involvement-student-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.xello.world\/en-gb\/resources\/blog-posts\/parental-involvement-student-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Parental Involvement in Children\u2019s Education Leads to Student Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

The home-school connection has always been important. Now, more than ever, it\u2019s critical.<\/h2>\n

If the COVID-19 effect on education has made anything abundantly clear it\u2019s that, in addition to their teachers, most students need the support and guidance of their parents to succeed in school.\u00a0<\/span>
\nI know this first-hand; my research for this article was conducted at my dining room table, next to my 9<\/span>th<\/span> grade son who is exceptionally bright, but the abject opposite of an independent learner.\u00a0<\/span>
\nSince schools shut down last March, he has struggled to keep track of his assignments, submit the right files to the right places, study for tests, and find any motivation to start and finish his work on time. <\/span>
\nWe have given him the autonomy to sort it out on his own (he didn\u2019t), asked him to update us weekly on his assignments to demonstrate he was on track (he did, but didn\u2019t exactly give us the full picture), and communicated by phone and email with his teachers to understand what was being required of him (a lot) and what he wasn\u2019t doing (sooo much).\u00a0<\/span>
\nWith the support of a special education specialist at his school, we have come to understand that our gifted kid, the one who effortlessly scored As and Bs and was on an internationally renowned robotics team in middle school, struggles with executive function. <\/span>
\nThat is, he can do the academic work but ask him to organize his work or his time and focus on a single task in front of him and you will be met with the blankest of stares. (Followed by a mildly hostile look that says, \u201cWhat do I have to do and say to get out of this?\u201d)<\/span>
\nThis unusual hybrid school year is far from over, but the one strategy we\u2019ve discovered that yields a modicum of success is this: I sit beside him on his asynchronous learning days at home. <\/span>
\nArmed with a laptop and my professional to-do list, I do my own work in between nudging him to open his computer, helping him identify what\u2019s being asked of him, breaking down the list into chunks, and encouraging him to just. keep. going. Pleeeeaase.\u00a0<\/span>
\nI\u2019m not an educator, but in our house I\u2019m as close as there is to one. And without my involvement in my son\u2019s schooling right now, he would be academically drowning.\u00a0<\/span>
\nThese circumstances are unique, but our family\u2019s experience puts a fine point on what educators already know: parental involvement means a lot when it comes to predicting student success.\u00a0<\/span>
\nAccording to a <\/span>Southwest Educational Development Laboratory research report<\/span><\/a>, \u201cMany studies found that students with involved parents, no matter what their income or background, were more likely to:<\/span><\/p>\n