The authors guide you through the process of planning, implementing, and maintaining a successful partnership between your school, students' families, and the community. The strategies they offer will help you create "Action Teams" of principals, teachers, parents, and others to guide partnerships and keep them on track; set up training workshops, discussions, and end-of-year celebrations to support your action teams; link your partnership program to school improvement goals; create specialized programs for use in middle and high schools; and network with other schools to share ideas and progress.
This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.
The work of Joyce L. Epstein has advanced theories, research, policies, and practices of family and community involvement in elementary, middle, and high schools, districts, and states nationwide.
This updated edition of a bestseller enables school, district, and state leaders to develop more effective programs for family and community involvement.
This collection of original scholarly articles will be a unique resource for new and aspiring administrators and for researchers in both the fields of leadership and school-family-community partnerships.
This book provides administrators with a clear road map for initiating partnership programs that are goal-focused, equitable, and sustainable.
This sharp, insightful book serves as an excellent resource for educators seeking to establish school-community partnerships to achieve goals for their schools and the students, families, and communities they serve.
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This book presents a collection of research-based, effective, and culturally responsive practices that are used in schools and communities to support and empower families of students with disabilities to be equal partners for schools.
In this new edition, the authors evaluate advances to a multitiered model of FSCP that further incorporates community alliances. Section I covers legislative, empirical, and theoretical underpinnings and updates.
This text focuses on understanding different types of family structures, cross cultural issues that teachers need to be aware of, and building strong family/school/community relationships. There are manyfeatures that adapt...