Home, School, and Community Collaboration: Culturally Responsive Family Engagement - Softcover

Grant, Kathy Beth; Ray, Julie A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412990742 ISBN 13: 9781412990745

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2012

Synopsis

Home, School, and Community Collaboration: Culturally Responsive Family Engagement, Second Edition, by Kathy Grant and Julie Ray is a comprehensive textbook for family engagement courses that uses the culturally responsive family support model to prepare early childhood and elementary teachers to work effectively with the diverse families of their students.

About this title

About the Author:

Kathy B. Grant, EdD, is an associate professor of Curriculum and Instruction at SUNY Plattsburgh’s School of Education. She taught undergraduate courses in family involvement, as well as graduate courses in educational psychology and child development. She also worked as a home-school coordinator through Title 1 in the Missoula School District in Missoula, Montana. During her six years in this position, she oversaw the development of family resource centers at the elementary and middle school levels, worked with family outreach specialists and social workers, established parent libraries, and conducted home visits. As home-school coordinator, she helped develop an Even Start program serving children and parents. Having taught second, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grades, as well as high school, she has worked collaboratively with families for more than 30 years. In 2014 in collaboration with two rural upstate New York school districts, she consulted on establishment of two elementary family resource centers. These two centers will be part of a larger SUNY clinical field experience effort to prepare teacher candidates to authentically work with families.

Review:

"You can read any number of text books on schools and family involvement, but this textbook stands out in that the ideas presented are practical, the examples are real, and future teachers will be able to actually incorporate many of the suggestions into their own dealings with parents, families, and schools." -- Kathleen M. Sheridan "Family involvement is one of the best predictors of academic success for students; therefore it is vital that future educators are well-informed about supportive family involvement practices. Home, School, and Community Collaboration: Culturally Responsive Family Involvement provides students with this important information." -- Amy J. Malkus

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1412990742
• ISBN 13: 9781412990745
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 448