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What Successful Schools Do to Involve Families

55 Partnership Strategies

By: Neal A. Glasgow, Paula Jameson Whitney

Watch performance levels climb when students are supported by teachers, parents, and the community!

Students learn best when families and schools work together to promote achievement. This invaluable resource offers teachers and administrators 55 practical strategies for forming effective partnerships with every type of family group. The authors help educators bridge the gap between school and home by providing:

Solidly researched strategies with relevant how-to applications, precautions, and additional resources
Strategies for reaching out to non-mainstream families
A chapter on non-parental caregivers
Proven methods for encouraging family participation and discussion in supporting math, literacy, and students with special needs

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Grade Level: K-12
ISBN: 9781412956048
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2008
Page Count: 216
Publication date: December 11, 2008

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"Partnering with parents is a missing link in efforts to improve student achievement. This book offers teachers specific and practical suggestions to capitalize on this extraordinary untapped resource."
—David Freitas, Professor of Education
Indiana University, South Bend

Watch performance levels climb when students are supported by teachers, families, and the community!

Emphasizing that students learn best when families and schools work together to promote student achievement, What Successful Schools Do to Involve Families offers teachers and administrators 55 practical strategies for forming effective partnerships with every type of family group.

From traditional forms of communication—such as open houses, parent-teacher conferences, and fundraising efforts—to hot-button topics such as bullying and discipline, this book helps educators bridge the gap between school and home by providing:

Solidly researched strategies with relevant how-to applications, tips, precautions, and additional resources
Strategies for reaching out to non-mainstream or non-traditional families
A chapter on the role of non-parental caregivers
Proven methods for including families in discussions about homework, literacy, mathematics, and students with special needs

Nurture academic success and resiliency in students by strengthening the bond between families, educators, and the outside community!

Key features

Written by best-sellingauthor (andhigh school teacherand parent) Neal Glasgow and co-authorPaula Jameson Whitney, whose 21 years in education include teaching and administrating in elementary and middle schools
55 research-based strategiesfor teachers, counselors, and principals, showing how best to involve parents and families who want to help their children succeed in school
Applications appropriate for culturally diversecommunities
Strategiesmay be used inindividual parentdiscussions or for parent nights, open houses,parent-teacher meetings, community meetings, and other settings
Topics includeopen houses, parent conferences, and communicating with families; homework issues; literacy and mathematical concepts;special education students and especially challenging students;working with families fromnon-dominant cultures
Each strategy offers a synthesis of the relevant research, a how-to application for educators, precautions and pitfalls, and research sources for optional follow-up

Author(s)

Neal A. Glasgow

Neal A. Glasgow's experience includes serving as a secondary school science and art teacher both in California and New York, as a university biotechnology teaching laboratory director and laboratory technician, and as an educational consultant and frequent speaker on many educational topics. He is the author or coauthor of ten books on educational topics: What Successful Schools Do to Involve Families: Fifty Research-Based Strategies for Teachers and Administrators (2008), What Successful Literacy Teachers Do: 70 Research-Based Strategies for Teachers, Reading Coaches, and Instructional Planners (2007), What Successful Teachers Do in Diverse Classrooms: 71 Research-Based Strategies for New and Veteran Teachers (2006); What Successful Teachers Do in Inclusive Classrooms: 60 Research-Based Strategies That Help Special Learners (2005); What Successful Mentors Do: 81 Researched-Based Strategies for New Teacher Induction, Training, and Support (2004); What Successful Teachers Do: 91 Research-Based Strategies for New and Veteran Teachers (2003); Tips for Science Teachers: Research-Based Strategies to Help Students Learn (2001); New Curriculum for New Times: A Guide to Student-Centered, Problem-Based Learning (1997); Doing Science: Innovative Curriculum Beyond the Textbook for the Life Sciences (1997); and Taking the Classroom to the Community: A Guidebook (1996).

Paula Jameson Whitney

Paula Jameson Whitney has been an educator for 21 years. During that time, she has been a middle school teacher of language arts, ESL, and social science; middle school vice principal; elementary school principal; and central office director of learning support and categorical programs. Her master’s of education is in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, and her expertise is in instructional practices for English learners, gifted and talented students, and leadership strategies for school improvement.

Foreword by Sheila E. Durkin

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Introduction

1. Parents, Families, Teachers, and Schools Appreciating and Supporting Each Other

2. Teachers, Students, Families, and Homework

3. Teachers, Students, Families, and Literacy

4. Teachers, Students, Families, and Mathematics

5. Teachers, Schools, Families, and the Special Education Student

6. Looking at the Roles of Non-Parental Caregivers in the Student's Life

7. Communicating With Families and Bridging the Gap Between School and Home

8. Working With Families and Especially Challenging Students

9. Working With Families From Nondominant Cultures

10. Families, Schools, and the Social Aspects of the Classroom

11. The Role of School Administrator: Increasing Student Achievement Through Parent Involvement

Index

Reviews

“Partnering with parents is a missing link in efforts to improve student achievement. This book offers teachers specific and practical suggestions to capitalize on this extraordinary untapped resource.”

David Freitas, Professor of Education
Indiana University, South Bend