Creating Partnerships with Parents

Donald Lueder

doi:10.5771/9781461648482

Summary

Are you wondering how to nurture a better relationship with the parents of your students? This book provides teachers with comprehensive methods to bridge the gap between school and home in order to enhance the development of their students.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2000
ISBN-Print: 978-1-56676-583-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-4848-2
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 280
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Prologue No access
1. The Dilemma No access
2. The Traditional Parent Involvement Approach No access
3. Summary No access
1. Parent Involvement: What Is It ? No access
2. An Exercise No access
3. A Brief Review of the Literature. No access
4. Parent Partner Roles No access
5. The Progressive Nature of the Parent Partner Roles No access
6. Summary No access
1. What Is a Family/School/Community Partnership ? No access
2. Building on Family Strengths No access
3. Prevention Rather Than the Cure No access
4. The Politics of Partnerships No access
5. The Benefits of a Family/School/Community Partnership. No access
6. Summary No access
1. Family-Based Barriers. No access
2. Normative Barriers (Family-, School-, and Community-Based) No access
3. Summary No access
1. The Rationale for Reaching Out No access
2. A Shift in Paradigms. No access
3. The Evolution of the Energy-Out Dimension. No access
4. The Progressive Nature of the School/Community Collaboration Strategies. No access
5. The "Self-Renewing" Phenomenon. No access
6. Summary No access
1. Connecting Best Practices No access
2. Communicating: Building on the Connecting Strategy No access
1. Communicating Best Practices. No access
2. Coordinating: Building on the Connecting and Communicating Strategies No access
1. Coordinating Services and Resources. No access
2. Coordinating Family and Community Support. No access
3. School-Business Partnerships No access
4. Guidelines for Designing and Implementing Volunteer Programs No access
5. Coaching: Building on the Other School/Community Collaboration Strategies. No access
1. Coaching and Enhancing. No access
2. Coaching from a Collaborative Foundation No access
3. The Coaching Home Visit No access
4. Coaching Best Practices. No access
5. Logistical Best Practices No access
6. Enhancing the Parent Partner Roles No access
7. A Summary of Workshop and Class Topics No access
8. Summary No access
1. The Strategic Partnership Planning System (SPPS) No access
2. Pre-Intervention Planning: Building the Foundation No access
3. Step 1. Understanding the Nature and Functions of Family/School/Community Partnerships and the Self-Renewing Partnership Model No access
4. Step 2. Identifying Shared Belief s about Parental Involvement and Partnerships with Families No access
5. Step 3. Assessing Levels of Parent Involvement in the Home and at School No access
6. Step 4. Developing a Collective Vision No access
7. Step 5. Developing a Shared Mission Statement No access
8. Step 6. Identifying the Family Population or Populations to Be Targeted No access
9. Step 7. Identifying the Barriers to Overcome No access
10. Step 8. Determining the Partnership Program Goals No access
11. Step 9. Determining the School/Community Collaboration Strategies to Be Emphasized No access
12. Step 10. Determining Objectives No access
13. Step 11. Selecting and Implementing Best Practices No access
14. Step 12. Evaluating the Effects of Strategies and Best Practices. No access
15. Step 13. Redefining Goals and Objectives. No access
16. Summary No access
1. Apple Hill Elementary School No access
2. Summary No access
References No access Pages 263 - 268
Index No access Pages 269 - 280