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

Epstein, Joyce L.; Sanders, Mavis G.; Sheldon, Steven; Simon, Beth S.; Salinas, Karen Clark; Jansorn, Natalie R.; VanVoorhis, Frances L.; Martin, Cecelia S.; Thomas, Brenda G.; Greenfield, Marsha D.; Hutchins, Darcy J.; Williams, Kenyatta J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1412959020 ISBN 13 : 9781412959025

Editeur : Corwin Press Inc, 2009

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School, Family, and Community Partnerships This updated edition for building school-community partnerships to increase learning includes new examples, inventories defining leadership roles, and a workshop PowerPoint presentation on CdRom. Full description

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1st edition description:''New Edition of Best Seller!'''School, Family, and Community Partnerships is a one-stop survival guide for anyone engaged in starting or improving partnership programs. The detailed, practical information links research findings to effective practices in a most helpful way.'Jane Grinde, Director, Bright Beginnings/Family-School-Community Partnerships, andRuth Anne Landsverk, Families in Education Coordinator Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction'''The research base is evident, and the second edition of the handbook is designed to help educators actually get things done. Everything is included to launch an effective Action Team and to develop a program that links family involvement to school improvement and student achievement.'Arty Dorman, Director of Family &BAD:amp; Community InvolvementSaint Paul Public SchoolsSaint Paul, Minnesota'''The second edition of the Handbook for Action is full of advice, good examples, and information for leaders in elementary, middle, and high schoolsùall based on research. This is an important resource for anyone trying to improve partnerships that support student achievement.'Wendy Harwin, School-Family-Community Partnerships Project CoordinatorConnecticut State Department of Education''A positive program of family and community involvement . . . in a brand new edition! ''This research-based framework of six types of involvement guides state and district leaders, school principals, teachers, parents, and community partners to form Action Teams for Partnershipsùdynamic groups that plan, implement, evaluate, and continually improve family and community involvement for student success.''CorwinÆs first edition of this Handbook, created by researchers at Johns Hopkins University with input from educators and parents, has been a best-seller for years. Now, Joyce L. Epstein and her colleagues offer even more tools and strategiesùinnovations tested for more than fifteen years that are being used by leaders in schools, districts, and state departments of education across the country to create partnership programs that support school improvement goals.''With this new second edition, youÆll learn how to:''''Involve the community in school, family, and community partnerships ''Organize more effective Action Teams for Partnerships ''Strengthen partnership programs in middle and high schools ''Implement interactive homework for students to show and share with their families ''Organize successful volunteers in the middle grades ''Conduct state and district leadership activities to help schools develop partnership programs''Plus, youÆll find new examples of successful partnership activities linked to school goals for students, new planning and evaluation tools, and new guidelines and materials for conducting effective training workshops on partnerships.''ItÆs a valuable and time-tested approach with tools that you can use today to build a comprehensive, inclusive, goal-oriented, and permanent program of partnership! (20080703)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Corwin Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1412959020
• ISBN 13: 9781412959025
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 3
• Nombre de pages: 376