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Engaging all families : creating a positive school culture by putting research into practice / Steven M. Constantino.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Constantino, Steven M., 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Home and school--United States.
- Home and school.
- Education, Secondary--Parent participation.
- United States.
- Education, Secondary--Parent participation--United States.
- Education, Secondary.
- School environment--United States.
- School environment.
- Educational innovations--United States.
- Educational innovations.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 178 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : ScarecrowEducation, 2003.
- Summary:
- 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 also included. As a successful school administrator and nationally known expert in the field of family and community engagement, Steven Constantino builds the bridge from research to practice and provides the information that allows all schools to become family friendly.
- Contents:
- 1 Leadership for Family Engagement 7
- 2 Why Family Engagement? 19
- 3 Schools as the Center of Communities 31
- 4 The Role of Technology in Family Partnerships 39
- 5 Comprehensive Evaluation for Family Engagement 53
- 6 Does Your School Say Welcome? 67
- 7 Engaging Families 83
- 8 Communication and Interaction with All Families 95
- 9 Creating a Community School 111
- 10 Engaging Families with Students 123
- 11 A Commitment to Families 135.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-171) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1578860628
- OCLC:
- 52133006
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