PARENT & FAMILY ENGAGEMENT

Parent & Family Engagement

Preparing our students for the world is a collective effort. When parents, families, and schools work together, students thrive. When this happens, our communities benefit. Parent and family engagement is crucial in our collective effort to ensure that every student has the resources they need to reach their full potential.

Parent and Family Engagement is an important component of the Every Student Succeeds Act, which focuses accountability between schools and parents for high student achievement and offers parents important insight into their children's education.

Many of the schools in the North Little Rock School District have a Parent Engagement Professional -- PEP for short -- that works with school administrators, teachers, and staff to connect with parents and families. Please contact your child's school to connect with their PEP.

VOLUNTEER/CHARING U.P. ADULT-YOUTH MENTOR
Do you have a burning desire to be a part of our schools? Do you want to work with school and district staff to put on programs for students? Do you want to help with lunch duty? Do you want to mentor some students and encourage them to make the right choices? You're in luck! We have a place for you!

SAFETY AND SECURITY PROCEDURES
In an effort to enhance safety, the North Little Rock School District has implemented the Raptor Visitor and Volunteer Management System. Raptor is an online management system that ensures safety by reading a visitor’s drivers license or other approved ID and alerts school officials if there are concerns regarding the visitor that hopes to enter our buildings.

Each campus has received training to safely welcome visitors, volunteers, and mentors into our buildings using Raptor. Please revisit our definitions for a volunteer and a mentor:

A volunteer is one who has contact with students within the presence of a school or district employee or is assigned duties that may not directly involve students. The volunteer is required to complete the NLRSD Volunteer Application that supports the required background check. An example of a volunteer is a PTA member or a classroom parent.

An NLRSD Charging U.P. Adult-Youth Mentor is someone who has direct contact with students outside of the presence of a school or district employee or who is assigned duties such as tutoring, field trip chaperone, coaching, or a long-term mentoring assignment. The mentor is required to complete our NLRSD Volunteer Application that supports the required background check.

Every volunteer/mentor must complete a District Volunteer Application at this link.

These are the accepted forms of ID for visitors to provide schools before entering the building:

  • State-issued Drivers License

  • State ID card

  • City of North Little Rock ID card

    • These cards are available to any resident of North Little Rock. Please visit

      Seis Puentes, located 4202 Camp Robinson Road for more information.

You'll be given the all-clear when your application has been approved.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Crystal Barker
Parent & Family Engagement Coordinator

(501) 771-8013
(501) 607-7423
barkerc@nlrsd.org

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: