Build partnerships with families and the community to promote equity and student success! This updated edition of a bestseller enables school, district, and state leaders to develop more effective programs for family and community involvement. The authors show how to develop action teams to plan and implement partnership activities to reach school goals, mobilize community resources, evaluate program results, and maintain involvement over time. The third edition includes: New examples of successful partnership activities Increased attention to connecting family/community involvement to goals for student success New inventories that define leadership roles A CD-ROM with forms and a PowerPoint presentation for workshops
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.
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...
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 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.
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 will help professors in Schools, Colleges, and Departments of Education (SCDE) prepare their graduates to understand, organize, and continually improve partnership programs in all schools, with all families, and for all students.
Readers are invited to e-mail any of the editors to discuss the questions posed. This book was originally published as a special issue of Teaching Education.