A powerful resource for teachers about the benefits of parental engagement, along with methods to foster and develop good practice. >

The author provides practical strategies for cultivating communication with Latino parents and including the Latino family in developing sustained academic improvement.

Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.

The culture of a family's environment has been known to greatly impact a child's learning development. Unfortunately, too many parents are not involved outside of the classroom in their child's education as it relates to reading. As parents undertake the task of becoming involved in their child's education, they are faced with the fact that they are instrumental in laying the foundation for formal reading instruction. A child's very first teacher or role model are the parents. This book, therefore, looks at the resources in the home as well as how often students see their parents or another adult in the home read as a way of increasing student reading achievement. Primarily, the book provides information to parents and/or caregivers about factors that contribute to student achievement as a result of their inovlvement as well as informing other similar parents of urban school students throughout the country.