Handbook on family and community engagement

Thirty-six of the best thinkers on family and community engagement were assembled to produce this Handbook, and they come to the task with varied backgrounds and lines of endeavor. Each could write volumes on the topics they address in the Handbook, and quite a few have. The authors tell us what the...

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Other Authors Redding, Sam (Editor), Murphy, Marilyn (Editor), Sheley, Pamela (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2011.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806615810
DOI10.1108/978-1-61735-670-4
Physical Description1 online resource (xiii, 188 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Sam Redding
  • Introduction / Helen Westmoreland
  • . Part I. Framing the Discussion: New Directions for Title I Family Engagement: Lessons From the Past / Oliver C. Moles, Jr & Arnold F. Fege
  • The School Community: Working Together for Student Success / Sam Redding
  • Making Data Matter in Family Engagement / Heather Weiss & M. Etena Lopez
  • Engaging Families and Communities in School Turarounds: When Students Can't Wait / Lauren Morando Rhim
  • Social, Emotional, and Academic Learning: Complementary Goals for School-Family Partnerships / Amy Mart, Linda Dusenbury, & Roger P. Weissberg
  • Engaging the Entire Community: The Community School's Way / Marty Blank
  • Part II: Families and Learning: Aspiration and Expectations: Providing Pathways to Tomorrow / William Jeynes ; Vignette: Jessica / William Jeynes
  • Self-efficacy: Up to the challenge / Kathleen Hoover-Dempsey
  • Curriculum of the Home / Herbert J. Walberg ; Vignette: Annabelle / Marilyn Murphy
  • Homework and Study Habits / Lee Shumow ; Vignette: Tyler / Lee Shumow
  • Engaging families in reading / Holly Kreider ; Vignette: Xiomara / Georganne Morin & Holly Kreider
  • Reading and Literacy / Diana Hiatt-Michael ; Vignette: Alicia and Dan / Diana Hiatt-Michael
  • College and career readiness / Mary R. Waters & John Mark Williams
  • Part III; Families and Schools: A Framework for Partnerships / Steven B. Sheldon
  • Parent Leadership / Anne T. Henderson & Sam Redding
  • Maximum Homework Impact: Optimizing Time, Purpose, Communication, and Collaboration / Frances Van Voorhis
  • Differentiating Family Supports / Patricia Edwards ; Vignette: Angela / Patricia Edwards
  • Bridging Language and Culture / Patricia Gándara
  • Minority Families and Schooling / Susan J. Paik
  • Association of Poverty With Family Relations and Children's and Adolescents' Socioemotional Adjustment / Ronald Taylor ; Vignette: Billy / Sam Redding
  • Families of Children with Disabilities: Building School-Family Partnerships / Eva Patrikakou ; Vignette: Tony / Lori G. Thomas
  • Linking Schools to Early Childhoon / Kate McGilly
  • Family Engagement in High Schools / Mavis Sanders
  • Family and Community Engagement in Charter Schools / Brian R. Beabout & Lindsey B. Jakiel
  • Family engagement in rural schools / Amanda L. Witte & Susan M. Sheridan
  • Bridging Two Worlds for Native American Families / Pamela Sheley ; Vignette: Marie / Pamela Sheley
  • Part IV: Suggested Practices: Checklist of Suggested Practices / Sam Redding
  • About the authors.