Invisible Parent Researcher interview with Kate Senior

We were fortunate to speak with one of the lead researchers in the Invisible Parent Project. Dr. Kate Senior invited us to her home to speak  about her research on the involvement of parents in the school setting and it's effect on students academic growth. She stated that the conclusions from the research is that parent engagement at school had little positive impact on students academic achievement. They used research from three aboriginal schools in Australia. One of the schools she and her associate studied was Karama Primary School, a school we were fortunate enough to visit. She was very knowledgeable about the educational system in Australia and was able to answer several of our questions. We were thrilled to be able to speak with Dr. Kate Senior. Our original grant questions are leading us into many other avenues of inquiry that we had never thought about before engaging in this fact finding mission. We are very grateful that we have been given the chance to study the Australian Educational system. We are now in Melbourne continuing our quest for information on the educational system with emphasis on Indigenous Education.