Handbook of school-family partnerships

• Other Authors: Christenson, Sandra, 1946-, Reschly, Amy L.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Routledge, 2010.
• Subjects: Home and school > Handbooks, manuals, etc. > United States; Education > Handbooks, manuals, etc. > Parent participation > United States; Community and school > Handbooks, manuals, etc. > United States; EDUCATION > Parent Participation.; Community and school.; Education > Parent participation.; Home and school.; United States.; Electronic books.; Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Family and community involvement are increasingly touted as a means of improving both student and school-level achievement. This has led to an increase in policies, initiatives and goals designed to address family involvement in schools. Once recognized and implemented, such family-school partnershi...

Table of Contents:

• Application of a developmental/ecological model to family-school partnerships / Jason T. Downer and Sonya S. Myers
• Motivation and commitment to family-school partnerships / Kathleen V. Hoover-Dempsey, Manya C. Whitaker, and Christa L. Ice
• Elements of healthy family-school relationships / Brandy L. Clarke, Susan M. Sheridan, and Kathryn E. Woods
• Diversity in families: parental socialization and children's development and learning / Lynn Okagaki and Gary E. Bingham
• Culturally-based worldviews, family processes, and family-school interactions / Nancy E. Hill
• The home learning environment and achievement during childhood / Eric Dearing and Sandra Tang
• Parent involvement in early education / Arthur J. Reynolds and Rebecca J. Shlafer
• Partnering to foster achievement in reading and mathematics / Marika Ginsburg-Block, Patricia H. Manz, and Christine McWayne
• A school-family partnership: addressing multiple risk factors to improve school readiness and prevent conduct problems in young children / Carolyn Webster-Stratton and M. Jamila Reid
• Family-centered, school-based mental health strategies to reduce student behavioral, emotional, and academic risk / Elizabeth Stormshak, Thomas Dishion, and Corrina Falkenstein
• School-family partnerships to promote social and emotional learning / Michelle I. Albright and Roger P. Weissberg
• School connectedness and adolescent well-being / Clea McNeely, Janis Whitlock, and Heather Libbey
• Family-school partnerships and communication interventions for young children with disabilities / Ann P. Kaiser and Alacia Trent Stainbrook
• Creating school-family partnerships in adolescence: challenges and opportunities / Brenda J. Lohman and Jennifer L. Matjasko
• Debunking the myth of the hard-to-reach parent / Karen L. Mapp and Soo Hong
• Family-centered helpgiving practices, parent-professional partnerships, and parent, family and child outcomes / Carl J. Dunst and Carol M. Trivette
• Mapping family-school relations in comprehensive school reform models and charter school designs: a call for a new research agenda / Claire Smrekar, Lora Cohen-Vogel, and Jie-Eun Lee
• Future directions in family-school partnerships / Cindy Carlson
• Methodological issues in family-school partnership research / S. Natasha Beretvas, Timothy Z. Keith, and Cindy Carlson
• From periphery to center: a new vision and strategy for family, school, and community partnerships / Heather B. Weiss and Naomi C. Stephen
• Moving forward in school-family partnerships in promoting student competence: from potential to full impact / Patrick H. Tolan and Samantha C. Woo.