This guide was developed to satisfy legal requirements of Chapter 1 Migrant Education Program (1967) on parental involvement in migrant education. It provides a framework for Texas school districts to implement effective strategies for establishing parental involvement programs. The rationale presents the benefits of parental involvement and describes participatory roles for parents. The parental involvement model contains three components: (1) parent awareness, divided into areas of self-awareness, school environment awareness, and parenting; (2) parent partnership, as a tutor in the home or classroom, or as a volunteer in the school; and (3) the parent advisory council, which collaborates with the local school district on issues pertaining to migrant education. The guide characterizes a functional parental involvement program. It also includes a schematic model of the interactions among child motivation, child skill, and parent self-image; and a description of four levels of parental involvement and sophistication. Five appendices covering relevant federal regulations, competencies for parental involvement, competencies for parent advisory councils, aspects of training parent volunteers, and 11 references are included. (SV)