School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action - Softcover

Epstein, Joyce L.; Sanders, Mavis G.; Simon, Beth S.; Salinas, Karen Clark; Jansorn, Natalie R.; VanVoorhis, Frances L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761976663 ISBN 13: 9780761976660

Publisher: Corwin, 2002

Synopsis

New Edition of Best Seller!

The latest edition of this long-time bestseller offers a research-based framework that guides state and district leaders, school principals, teachers, parents, and community partners to form Action Teams for Partnerships.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The comprehensive third edition of School, Family, and Community Partnerships demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-oriented programs.

About the Author:

Joyce L. Epstein is director of the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships and the National Network of Partnership Schools, principal research scientist in the Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk (CRESPAR), and professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University. She has over 100 pub­lications on the organization and effects of school, classroom, family, and peer environments, with many focused on school, family, and community connec­tions. In 1995, she established the National Network of Partnership Schools to demonstrate the important intersections of research, policy, and practice for school improvement. She serves on numerous editorial boards and advisory panels on family involvement and school reform and is a recipient of the Academy for Educational Development’s 1991 Alvin C. Eurich Education Award and the 1997 Working Mother’s Magazine Parent Involvement in Education Award for her work on school, family, and community partnerships. Her most recent book, School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators and Improving Schools (Westview Press, 2001), aims to add the topic of family and community involvement to courses for future teachers and admin­istrators. She earned a PhD in sociology from Johns Hopkins University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0761976663
• ISBN 13: 9780761976660
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 392