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Leadership for Family and Community Involvement

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June 2010 | 160 pages | Corwin

"Establishing school-family-community partnerships to promote the social, emotional, and academic learning of students is the most important challenge for 21st-century education. In this volume, leading practitioners and researchers compellingly convey the rationale and inspiration for these partnerships. They also share many practical, innovative, and effective strategies that readers can readily implement to engage partners in raising knowledgeable, responsible, caring, and contributing children."
—Roger P. Weissberg, Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago

Making schooling a community endeavor!

Because schools are the heart and soul of a community, educational leaders have a responsibility to bring the community into the school, as well as to make the school a part of the surrounding community. This volume in the Soul of Educational Leadership series goes beyond administrative skills to examine educators' pivotal role of leading family and community involvement in school success.

With articles written by leading authorities and practitioners in the field, this resource discusses how school leaders can build successful family and community partnerships that flourish even in trying circumstances and over time. Readers will find:

  • Contributions from Alan M. Blankstein, Pedro A. Noguera, Mavis G. Sanders, Paul D. Houston, Edward H. Moore, and others
  • Inspiring and unique perspectives on the interplay of family and community in school success
  • Ideas for engaging families as partners

Robert Cole
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Authors
Alan M. Blankstein and Pedro A. Noguera
1. Engaging Families to Enhance Student Success
Mavis G. Sanders
2. Parents as Leaders: School, Family, and Community Partnerships in Two Districts
Susan Frelick-Wooley, Cynthia Rosacker Glimpse, and Sheri DeBoe Johnson
3. Sharing the Dream: Engaging Families as Partners in Supporting Student Success
Yoni Schwab & Maurice J. Elias
4. The ‘What’ and ‘How’ of Helping Parents Help Students Become Successful Learners
Lesley S. J. Farmer
5. Family Literacy: The Roles of School Libraries and Public Libraries
Edward H. Moore
6. Balancing Your Communication Ledger:Using Audits to Involve Communities and Build Support for Schools
Lin Kuzmich
7. Manage the Molehill Before It Becomes a Mountain: Keeping Parent Interactions Productive for Students
Paul D. Houston
8. Raising the Village by Bringing Communities and Schools Together
 
Index

"Establishing school-family-community partnerships to promote the social, emotional, and academic learning of students is the most important challenge for 21st-century education. In this volume, leading practitioners and researchers compellingly convey the rationale and inspiration for these partnerships. They also share many practical, innovative, and effective strategies that readers can readily implement to engage partners in raising knowledgeable, responsible, caring, and contributing children."

Roger P. Weissberg, Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor
University of Illinois at Chicago

"This is a wonderful resource for all levels of educational leaders, new or seasoned. The foundational concepts, research-based strategies, and real-life examples offer useful information for involving families in schooling and student learning. Additionally, the attention paid to the values, attitudes, and behaviors of families is much appreciated. This is not a recipe book. Rather, it is a compilation of what matters for thoughtfully engaging all families."

Jean West Lewis, Family and Community Outreach Specialist
Howard County Public Schools, Columbia, MD

"It takes leadership to establish mutually respectful and responsible family-school partnerships. This book is very timely because the authors provide insight about how this leadership might take shape and offer guidance for establishing effective partnerships that engage families in the academic lives of their children. The guidance is based on real experiences in schools and districts. This book moves us forward—together."

Jeana Preston, Director, California Parent Center
San Diego State University Research Foundation

"This important collection of papers by many of the nation’s educational leaders provides specific and concrete ideas that practitioners can use to support the whole school community and the whole child."

Jonathan Cohen, President
Center for Social and Emotional Education

"It is rare to find a book on family and community involvement that is insightfully sensitive to the needs of parents. This book offers clear examples and methods to create authentic partnerships that will benefit everyone, especially our children.”

Barbara Flis, Founder
Parent Action for Healthy Kids
Key features

This current volume goes beyond leadership skills to probe the pivotal roles of families and community organizations in school success. The chapters in this book have been written by leading authorities in the field with a specific view to sharing how school leaders can engage in exemplary practice to point the way toward success for schools and their communities. The gains to be realized from creating communities and schools that work in partnership are valuable beyond price.

Key contributors include:

  • Alan Blankstein and Pedro Noguera
  • Paul Houston
  • Lesley S.J. Farmer
  • Edward Moore
  • Lin Kuzmich

 

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