School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action - Rilegato

Epstein, Joyce L.; Sanders, Mavis G.; Sheldon, Steven B.; Simon, Beth S.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1412959012 ISBN 13: 9781412959018

Casa editrice: Corwin Pr, 2009

Riassunto

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

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Recensione

"It’s all here―everything you need to start, sustain, and grow an effective, research-based partnership program. With the addition of a CD-ROM, the essential tools are even more accessible, portable, and adaptable to the challenges and opportunities facing our schools." (Joe Munnich, Family and Community Involvement Coordinator 2008-07-03)

“The link between successful partnership programs and student achievement is supported by research. This book provides the tools you need to establish and sustain partnerships, both on the district and school levels. It’s an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to organize an outstanding partnership program to enhance student success.” (Melissa T. McQuarrie, Director of Community Relations 2008-07-03)

"Useful for state leaders as well as districts and schools. It provides a research-based yet practical blueprint for organizing sustainable partnership programs to support student learning. We use the Handbook to provide training to school teams, parent leaders, school boards, superintendents, and their cabinets across California." (Jeana Preston, Director, California Parent Center 2008-07-03)

“This practical handbook offers a wealth of resources not only for those who are starting to organize their work, but also for those who are sustaining their programs of school, family, and community partnerships. You can make the guidelines fit your district’s needs.” (Lorraine Landon, Director, Parent Education Center Coordinator 2008-07-03)

"This is the ‘bible’ of parent engagement literature. The Handbook gives step-by-step examples of strategic planning for partnership programs and practices that lead to student success.” (Dave Guzman, Director, Parent Engagement 2008-07-03)

"The third edition is loaded with practical tools, researched-based strategies, and helpful examples for anyone wanting to implement or improve goal-linked programs of family and community involvement. A standout feature is the new CD-ROM, which provides everything needed for successful workshops―a great time-saver!” (Jean West Lewis, Family and Community Outreach Specialist 2008-07-03)

L'autore

Joyce L. Epstein is director of the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships and the National Network of Partnership Schools, principal research scientist in the Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk (CRESPAR), and professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University. She has over 100 pub­lications on the organization and effects of school, classroom, family, and peer environments, with many focused on school, family, and community connec­tions. In 1995, she established the National Network of Partnership Schools to demonstrate the important intersections of research, policy, and practice for school improvement. She serves on numerous editorial boards and advisory panels on family involvement and school reform and is a recipient of the Academy for Educational Development’s 1991 Alvin C. Eurich Education Award and the 1997 Working Mother’s Magazine Parent Involvement in Education Award for her work on school, family, and community partnerships. Her most recent book, School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators and Improving Schools (Westview Press, 2001), aims to add the topic of family and community involvement to courses for future teachers and admin­istrators. She earned a PhD in sociology from Johns Hopkins University.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Corwin Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1412959012
• ISBN 13: 9781412959018
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 361