Collect and publish examples of programs that are already being used by teachers, schools and school councils to engage parents in education within your board today.  It might be helpful to organize these examples using the framework of Dr Joyce Epstein, with minor modifications developed to a better fit within Ontario. 

	Communicating
	Helping at home
	Building parenting skills
	Attending school events
	Volunteering
	Fundraising
	Participating in decision making
	Leveraging community resources

Form a parent involvement advisory committee to assess the state of parent involvement within schools across the system, and make recommendations on where to focus system efforts. 

Coordinate some professional development for principals, teachers, school council members and school volunteers to better enable people to work collaboratively to engage other parents in helpful ways. 

Provide facilitators to help principals, teachers and school councils build plans to engage parents in education.