This document presents a summary of the larger report, "Parent Involvement Activities in School Improvement Plans in the Northwest Region." Although the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) spells out parent involvement requirements for schools in need of improvement, the majority of the Northwest Region school improvement plans reviewed failed to include such provisions. Reported findings in the study include: (1) Despite a wide range of parent involvement practices discussed in legislation and in the literature, school improvement plans mentioned primarily nonacademic and academic communication, and parent-teacher conferences; (2) Number of NCLB parent involvement requirements addressed in the plans decreased as the school level increased from elementary to middle to high school; (3) Even though 785 percent of the schools in improvement served English learner students, only 33 percent of the school improvement plans included activities for communicating with parents in a language they could understand; and (4) Schools that included all requirements of NCLB were primarily in states or districts that provided schools with a template for completing their school improvement plans. [This summary was prepared for the National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, Institute of Education Sciences (IES) by Regional Educational Laboratory Northwest administered by Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. For the associated full report, see ED503237.]