School, Family, and Community Partnerships
Your Handbook for Action
- 384 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
School, Family, and Community Partnerships
Your Handbook for Action
About this book
Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students? education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find:
- Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools
- Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress
- CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs.
As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Introduction
- 1 A Comprehensive Framework
- 1.1 School, Family, and Community Partnerships Caring for the Children We Share1
- 1.2 School-Community Partnerships The Little Extra That Makes a Big Difference
- 1.3 Improving Student Outcomes with School, Family, and Community Partnerships A Research Review
- 2 Use the Framework to Reach School Goals Stories from the Field
- 3 Take an Action Team Approach
- 4 Conduct Workshops
- 5 Select Materials for Presentations and Workshops
- 6 Strengthen Partnership Programs in Middle and High Schools
- 7 Strengthen District and State Leadership for Partnerships
- 8 Implement Teachers Involve Parents in Schoolwork (TIPS)
- 9 Evaluate Your Partnership Program
- Index
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