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Everybody's House - The Schoolhouse
Best Techniques for Connecting Home, School, and Community



March 1997 | 168 pages | Corwin
The authors of this book provide specific strategies that school leaders can employ, both with families and other community members, to build support for their school. Numerous case studies of successful family-involvement programmes currently in use, are included.
 
Introduction
 
Connecting Home and School
Parent/Family Involvement and Student Success

 
 
Families of Today and Tomorrow
Who Are They? Society's Changing Demographics

 
 
Reaching Out to Parents and Families
Getting and Keeping Them Involved

 
 
Parent/Family-Involvement Programs That Work
The Best Ideas from the Best Schools

 
 
Connecting School and Community
Reaching Your Stakeholders

 
 
Community-Involvement Programs That Work
The Best Ideas from the Best Schools

 
 
School/Business Partnerships
A Mutually Beneficial Alliance

 
 
Unreachable Parents
Reachable Children

 

Carolyn Warner

Carolyn Warner has gained national stature as one of America's most articulate educational and public policy leaders. A product of pioneering Oklahoma stock, her father was an Oklahoma State Senator, teacher, and newspaper publisher in whose honor the first public school in Oklahoma's Indian Territory was named. Her mother, also a teacher, served as a school principal in both Oklahoma and California.With six children in the public schools, Carolyn Warner became an active parent volunteer and PTA member, and she began her public service career with election to the Phoenix Union High School District Board of Trustees. In 1974, following a... More About Author

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ISBN: 9780803964853
$73.95