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Academic Development Institute

Academic Development Institute (ADI) has been working with families, schools and communities since 1984.  ADI has many tools and resources for school district and family to use.  They have had contracts with Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) and with the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) and have worked with other states assisting families, schools and communities.

Be sure to check out the The School Community Journal (ISSN 1059-308X) which includes research and field reports related to the school as a community of teachers, students, parents, and staff. Parent involvement, family-school relations, site-based management, sociology of education, systems theory, the classroom community, and other topics are covered. The school can function as a thriving community!  The School Community Journal is an online only open access journal.

They also have created an Illinois Parents website  www.illinoisparents.org which provides additional resources for parent involvement.

Parent Involvement Needs Analysis

ADI has created a tool for ISBE which school districts in Illinois have access to do an analysis of their parent involvement policies and compact. ISBE wants all of their Title One schools/districts to use this analysis for their school improvement plan. All other districts have access as well. The Principal will use their RCDT/RCDTS code to request a password. The principal gets an email after each step, but the District Title One Director is emailed only after the school completes steps 1 and 5. The principal will get a PDF copy of the report for each step where data is submitted, but the Title One Director only gets a report when all steps have been completed for the school.

This link will open the login page. To login to this tool, the Principal will use the School’s RCDT code, each section is separated by a dash “-“, with “-09” at the end to represent the fiscal year.  (example: Login code would be  01-001-0010-26-0000-09  Each year you will have to create a login and the only number that will change is the last two digits for the year.) This will be used for both the login and password the first time you login to the system.  This will prompt a screen to open where you will enter your own password in two different fields. It must be 6 characters.  In doing so, your password will change in the underlying table to what you have entered.  You will be able to print the screen with your login and new password, and then you will be directed to the Parent Involvement Analysis main menu web page.