Special Events

Research-to-Practice Symposium (RTPS)

What is the Research-to-Practice Symposium?

The Florida PIRC at USF hosts an annual statewide symposium which features a recognized national or regional authority discussing the latest research on important parent involvement issues for Florida’s educators and parents. The Research-to-Practice Symposium provides school, district, state level, and nonprofit organization personnel as well as parents/parent leaders with high quality, relevant, and useful trainings and information on parent involvement. The goal of the Symposium is to translate leading-edge parental involvement research into practical strategies that can be implemented to increase and improve parental involvement practices statewide, especially for educationally and economically challenged populations.

To view readings and/or podcasts from past or upcoming symposia, please click links below:

Past Symposia

2010 Symposium
Dr. James P. Comer with the FL PIRC at USF staff

• 2010 – James P. Comer, M.D., M.P.H., Yale Child Study Center
  Parents and School: The Necessary Conspiracy
  
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• 2009 – Edward M. Olivos, Ph.D., University of Oregon
  Latino Parents in the Public Schools: Critical Perspectives on their Involvement
• 2008 – Kathleen Hoover-Dempsey, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
  Increasing the Effectiveness of Parental Involvement
• 2007 – Anne T. Henderson, Annenberg Institute for School Reform
  What Research Says about Parent Involvement

For more information, please contact PIRC Multicultural and Outreach Specialist, or PIRC Administrative Assistant.

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