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Growing Up Literate: Learning from Inner-City Families

Growing Up Literate: Learning from Inner-City Families

by Denny Taylor

Through their focus on children who were successfully learning to read and write despite extraordinary economic hardship, this multiracial team presents new images of the strengths of the family as educator.

Family Storybook Reading

by Denny Taylor

Family Storybook Reading provides vivid accounts of parents sharing storybooks with children.

Family Literacy: Young Children Learning to Read and Write

Family Literacy: Young Children Learning to Read and Write

by Denny Taylor

Family Literacy presents the stories of six families, each having a child considered by the parents to be a successful reader and writer.

Many Families, Many Literacies: An International Declaration of Principles

Many Families, Many Literacies: An International Declaration of Principles

Many Families, Many Literacies provides much-needed guidance on developing policies and practices that build on the strengths that families bring to any learning situation: their diverse languages, literacies, and complex problem-solving capabilities.

Engaging All Families: Creating a Positive School Culture by Putting Research Into Practice

Engaging All Families: Creating a Positive School Culture by Putting Research Into Practice

by Steven M. Constantino

Engaging All Families provides a summary of research that acts as a foundation upon which the practitioner's tools are crafted. Readers are given the resources necessary to assess their present level of family engagement and the ideas, strategies, suggestions, programs, practices, policies, and procedures to implement a wide variety of customized family engagement programs. Numerous resources and references are... (more)

Promising Practices for Family Involvement in Schooling Across the Continents (Family, School, Community, Partnership Issues) (Family, School, Community, Partnership Issues)

Promising Practices for Family Involvement in Schooling Across the Continents (Family, School, Community, Partnership Issues) (Family, School, Community, Partnership Issues)

by Diana B. Hiatt-Michael

This monograph represents a seminal examination of the relationship of families to the education of their children across the globe. The monograph commences with an overview of issues and models in parent involvement, continues with a series of chapters from each continent, and ends with an analysis of international research data on student achievement and elements of family involvement. One intent of this ... (more)

Family Literacy Connections in Schools and Communities

Family Literacy Connections in Schools and Communities

Engaging Families: Connecting Home and School Literacy Communities

Engaging Families: Connecting Home and School Literacy Communities

by Betty Shockley Bisplinghoff

Engaging Families details how these teachers and some of their students' families developed respected partnerships in the teaching/learning process.

The Parent-Teacher Partnership: How to Work Together for Student Achievement

The Parent-Teacher Partnership: How to Work Together for Student Achievement

by Scott M. Mandel

With the National PTA’s Standard for School-Family-Community Partnership as a framework, this guide offers advice for resolving common points of contention between parents and teachers, such as the most productive use of a parent–teacher conference, the best at-home environment for doing homework, the helpfulness of parental rewards for classroom performance, and a teacher’s role in supporting a student with an... (more)

Promising Practices to Connect Schools with the Community (PB) (Family, School, Community, Partnership)

Promising Practices to Connect Schools with the Community (PB) (Family, School, Community, Partnership)

CONTENTS: Foreward. Introduction-The School-Community Connection. Diana B. Hiatt-Michael. Educational Reform: The Community School Approach. Martin J. Blank. A Full-service Community School. Joy G. Dryfoos. School-Linked Service Programs: Opportunities and Challenges. Nancy Feyl Chavkin. Schools and Communities Working Together to Implement Youth Behavioral Health Programs. Carl I. Fertman. School-Business... (more)

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Growing Up Literate: Learning from Inner-City Families

by Denny Taylor

Family Storybook Reading

by Denny Taylor

Family Literacy: Young Children Learning to Read and Write

by Denny Taylor

Many Families, Many Literacies: An International Declaration of Principles

Engaging All Families: Creating a Positive School Culture by Putting Research Into Practice

by Steven M. Constantino

Promising Practices for Family Involvement in Schooling Across the Continents (Family, School, Community, Partnership Issues) (Family, School, Community, Partnership Issues)

by Diana B. Hiatt-Michael

Family Literacy Connections in Schools and Communities

Engaging Families: Connecting Home and School Literacy Communities

by Betty Shockley Bisplinghoff

The Parent-Teacher Partnership: How to Work Together for Student Achievement

by Scott M. Mandel

Promising Practices to Connect Schools with the Community (PB) (Family, School, Community, Partnership)