School, Family, and Community Partnerships
School, Family, and Community Partnerships

Author: Joyce L. Epstein

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2018-07-19

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 1483320014

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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.

On Reading Books to Children
On Reading Books to Children

Author: Anne van Kleeck

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-04-02

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 1135643741

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Brings together current research on adult book reading to children; chapter authors are eminent scholars from fields of reading and literacy, child language, speech pathology, and psychology, representing diverse perspectives.

Parents as Partners in Child Therapy
Parents as Partners in Child Therapy

Author: Paris Goodyear-Brown

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Published: 2020-12-30

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1462545068

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This book addresses a key need for child therapists--how to actively involve parents in treatment and give them tools to support their child's healthy development. Known for her innovative, creative therapeutic approach, Paris Goodyear-Brown weaves together knowledge about play therapy, trauma, attachment theory, and neurobiology. She presents step-by-step strategies to help parents understand their child's needs, reflect on their own emotional triggers, set healthy boundaries, make time together more fun, and respond effectively to challenging behavior. Filled with rich clinical illustrations, the volume features 52 reproducible handouts and worksheets. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size.

Partnering with Parents to Ask the Right Questions
Partnering with Parents to Ask the Right Questions

Author: Luz Santana

Publisher: ASCD

Published: 2016-09-19

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1416622675

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How can we make it easier for schools and families to work together on behalf of all students? It all begins by tapping into the different strengths educators and parents and caregivers can contribute to building a strong partnership. Partnering with Parents to Ask the Right Questions, by Luz Santana, Dan Rothstein, and Agnes Bain of the Right Question Institute, presents a deceptively simple strategy for how educators can build effective partnerships with parents—especially those who typically have not been actively involved in their children's schooling. It distills complex, important ideas on effective civic participation into an easy-to-learn process that teaches parents two fundamental skills they can use to support the education of their children, monitor their progress, and advocate for them: asking better questions and participating effectively in key decisions. Based on more than two decades of work and research in a wide range of low- and moderate-income communities, this book empowers overburdened and under-resourced educators and parents to work together and achieve their common goal of successful students. This indispensable guide includes case studies spanning K–12 classrooms, and it explores ways to assist struggling students, collaborate on IEPs, and communicate with families of English language learners. The accessible and easy-to-use format, field-tested advice, and vivid examples from schools that put the advice into practice make this a must-have for everyone from the classroom to the central office.

Involving Parents in Their Children's Reading Development
Involving Parents in Their Children's Reading Development

Author: Bruce Johnson

Publisher: Treasure Bay Incorporated

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 9781601152008

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Includes a CD filled with handouts and letters that teachers can personalize and send home to parents! Bruce Johnson offers a unique and much needed resource on practical ways to get parents involved in reading with their children! Making parents partners in their children's reading development can make all the difference in helping students to master reading and become avid readers. This book is an excellent resource for teachers to maximize the potential of parent involvement. The book is full of field-tested material that teachers can immediately use with parents of children from pre-school to middle school. Whether teachers are reaching out through a parent-teacher conference, sending material home to parents, or putting together a parent involvement workshop, this book will provide everything they need-all in a format that is easy for them to customize to meet the specific needs of their students and parents.

Parentships in a PLC at Work®
Parentships in a PLC at Work®

Author: Kyle Palmer

Publisher: Solution Tree Press

Published: 2022-03-04

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1952812526

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Parents and guardians can be a powerful resource for teachers, but it takes skill and confidence to build partnerships, or parentships, and proactively engage in a positive way. Kyle Palmer draws from his experience as both principal of a model PLC school and as a parent to offer practical strategies for including parents or guardians as part of your collaborative culture focused on student learning. PreK–12 teachers, counselors, social workers, and principals will: Understand the basics of PLCs and parentships. Learn how parentships can integrate into and enhance the PLC process. Create mission and vision statements for parentships in a PLC. Use specific strategies to enhance your parentship and engage effectively with parents. Maintain an effective parentship into the future. Contents: Introduction Part I: Foundations of Parentships in a PLC Chapter 1: Understanding Parentships in a PLC Chapter 2: Creating Parentships in a PLC Chapter 3: Creating Shared Mission and Vision Statements for Your Parentship Chapter 4: Creating Values and Goals for Your Parentship Part II: Strategies for Parentships in a PLC Chapter 5: Strategies Related to Curriculum Chapter 6: Strategies Related to Individual Student Progress Chapter 7: Strategies Related to Parental Engagement Chapter 8: Strategies for Building Stronger Parent Relationships Chapter 9: Strategies for Monitoring and Sustaining Your Parentship Epilogue: Now What? References and Resources Index

Handbook of Family Literacy
Handbook of Family Literacy

Author: Barbara H. Wasik

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-08-06

Total Pages: 497

ISBN-13: 113689912X

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The Handbook of Family Literacy, 2e, provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of family literacy of any available book. It documents the need for literacy education for children and parents, describes early literacy and math development within the home, analyses interventions in home and center settings, and examines the issues faced by fathers and women with low literacy skills. Cultural issues are examined especially those for Hispanic, African American, American Indian, Alaskan Native, and migrant populations. Noted experts throughout the United States, Canada, England, the Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand, and South Africa analyze the commonalities and differences of family literacy across cultures and families. Key features include the following. Comprehensive – Provides updated information on the relation between early childhood literacy development, parenting education, and intervention services. Research Focus – Provides an extensive review of experimental studies, including national reviews and meta-analyses on family literacy. Practice Focus – Provides a comprehensive treatment of family literacy interventions necessary for program developers, policy makers, and researchers. Diversity Focus – Provides detailed information on cultural and diversity issues for guiding interventions, policy, and research. International Focus – Provides an international perspective on family literacy services that informs program developers, researchers, and policy makers across countries. Evaluation Focus – Provides detailed guidelines for ensuring program quality and fidelity and a valuable new evaluation perspective based on implementation science. This book is essential reading for anyone – researchers, program developers, students, practitioners, and policy makers – who needs to be knowledgeable about intervention issues, family needs, program developments, and research outcomes in family literacy.

A Path to Follow
A Path to Follow

Author: Patricia Ann Edwards

Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780325001524

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The diverse and difficult needs of today's children far outstrip the ability of any one institution to meet them. Yet one of the richest resources for understanding a child's early learning experiences-parents-is quite often the most frequently overlooked. A Path to Follow suggests that parent "stories" can be a highly effective, collaborative tool for accessing knowledge that may not be obvious, but would obviously be of benefit. Pat Edwards and her coauthors have here defined "stories" as narratives gained from open-ended conversations and/or interviews, where parents respond to questions designed to shed light on traditional and nontraditional early literacy activities in the home. After all, as a child's first and most important teacher, a parent can offer memories of specific formative interactions, observations on early learning efforts, and thoughts on how their own backgrounds have impacted a child's attitude toward school. In sharing their anecdotes and observations, parents give us the keys to unlock a vault of social, emotional, and educational variables. The secondary benefit to the story approach, of course, is the empowerment that parents feel when they are given the chance to participate in a personally meaningful way-one that respects their viewpoint. As parents and schools continue to wrestle with prodigious challenges-shifting family demographics, time constraints, cultural divides, privacy issues, and of course, economics-stories remain a nonthreatening and practical vehicle for collaboration. With its step-by-step approach to creating parent story programs, sample questions, case studies, and useful guidelines on collecting and interpreting data, A Path to Follow will be hailed as a detailed and innovative roadmap to involving the whole community in a child's education.

Literacy for Young Children
Literacy for Young Children

Author: Priscilla L. Griffith

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2008-03-13

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1412951992

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This resource presents assessment and instructional activities that are evidence based, practical, and easy to implement. This comprehensive text demonstrates how to link assessment and instruction practices for every component of literacy learning and helps teachers become informed decision makers about purposeful literacy instruction. Addressing the Early Reading First areas of phonological awareness, print knowledge, and language development, the book also covers parent involvement, integrated curriculum, and suggestions for working with children with special needs and English language learners. Using vignettes of four children representing diverse backgrounds, the authors weave together theory and practice and describe how instructional strategies are implemented in classroom settings. Each chapter contains figures and graphic organizers and includes sections on instructional strategies, assessment, and diversity