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

Epstein, Joyce L.; Sanders, Mavis G.; Sheldon, Steven; Simon, Beth S.; Salinas, Karen Clark; Jansorn, Natalie R.; VanVoorhis, Frances L.; Martin, Cecelia S.; Thomas, Brenda G.; Greenfield, Marsha D.; Hutchins, Darcy J.; Williams, Kenyatta J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412959020 ISBN 13: 9781412959025

Publisher: Corwin, 2008

Synopsis

Build partnerships with families and the community to promote equity and student success!

This updated edition of a bestseller enables school, district, and state leaders to develop more effective programs for family and community involvement. The authors show how to develop action teams to plan and implement partnership activities to reach school goals, mobilize community resources, evaluate program results, and maintain involvement over time. The third edition includes: 

• New examples of successful partnership activities 
• Increased attention to connecting family/community involvement to goals for student success 
• New inventories that define leadership roles 
• A CD-ROM with forms and a PowerPoint presentation for workshops

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: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1412959020
• ISBN 13: 9781412959025
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 376