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201 Ways to Involve Parents

Practical Strategies for Partnering With Families

Third Edition
By: Betty Boult

Make positive connections with families and impact student achievement. Learn how to engage parents as educational partners using these 201 well-researched, realistic, and ready-to-use ideas.

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781483369464
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2016
Page Count: 160
Publication date: April 26, 2016

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Proactively Develop Parental Involvement for Students’ Growth and Achievement

Years of research and practice show that connecting with families positively impacts student achievement. 201 Ways to Involve Parents is packed with realistic and ready-to-use ideas to help teachers and administrators actively engage parents as educational partners. This new edition includes current research on the impact of parent involvement in the school community, offers numerous new strategies, and provides expanded coverage of ways to build bridges between schools and diverse families, including:

Innovative ways to sustain ongoing communication with families
Ideas for welcoming parents as vital members of the school community
Strategies for including parents in school governance
Techniques for developing parent volunteer programs, and more

Start today to strengthen your classroom and school by working collaboratively with caregivers!

Author(s)

Betty Boult

Betty Boult, EdD, is currently an educational consultant. She retired from the position of assistant superintendent of School District No. 43 (Coquitlam) in British Columbia in June 2000. She has served as director of instruction (curriculum), supervisor of staff development, principal, assistant principal, teacher-librarian, and classroom teacher. Her back ground experience ranges from primary to adult education in both Canada and the United States. In addition to these full-time positions, she has served as a provincial community education consultant, a guest lecturer for the University of Lethbridge, a sectional instructor for the University of Alberta, and instructor for Nova Southeastern University. She has done part-time consulting with an international consulting company. During the past fifteen years, she has been contracted to do workshops and seminars at the district, provincial, and international levels. In addition, she has appeared on educational television and published numerous articles.

Currently Betty is in her eighth year as Superintendent/ Program Consultant of a British Columbia Offshore School just outside Shanghai. The student population is 1200 students (900 of the students are in Grades ten to twelve). She also is a lead auditor for the Ministry of Education in British Columbia and continues to consult for various jurisdictions throughout the province.

Table of Contents

Preface

Publisher’s Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction

Part 1 – Making It Happen

Starting the School Year

Supporting the Whole Family

Creating Safe Havens for Students

Recruiting Volunteers

Meeting the Needs of Volunteers

Training Volunteers

Developing Staff

Placing and Supporting Volunteers

Acknowledging Volunteers

Part 2 – Creating the Climate

Projecting a Positive Image

Marketing the Message

Using Technology to Communicate

Communicating Effectively

Creating the Context for Change

Part 3 – Sustaining the Involvement

Celebrating Diversity

Using Community Resources

Developing Community Relationships

Promoting Learning Across the Curriculum

Building Character

Talking Person to Person

Fundraising

Part 4 – Venturing Beyond the Bake Sale

Establishing Connections

Cross-Fertilizing Ideas

Fostering Effective Advisory Councils

Developing Parent Capacity

District Initiatives: Setting the Example

Resources

References

Index

Reviews

"Equal parts instructional and inspirational, this little gem has been an important part of my toolkit since I came across the first edition a decade ago. Dr. Boult's imperative to involve parents so comprehensively in their children's education makes so much sense, and the variety of strategies she offers range from the practical to the imaginative. 201 Ways to Involve Parents is a wonderful resource for both classroom teachers and school administrators."

Lee Smith, Principal
Sino-Canada High School

"With Betty's vast and varied experience in education, she brings a breadth of knowledge and understanding to the important subject of parents as partners."

Judy Chapman, Educational Consultant
Vancouver, British Columbia

"When I used this book with the members of the Parent Advisory Council (PAC) in my inner city elementary school, their executive immediately embraced it as a way to better understand the important role they played. Because of this, instead of using the PAC monthly meetings as a platform to complain, they used them to work with my staff and me to positively and proactively influence the direction of my school. For years afterwards, I would overhear parent conversations that began with "As Boult said in her book..." It truly did assist in changing the climate in my school!"

DeDe DeRose, Retired Principal, Educational Consultant
Kamloops School District

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