Posted on July 29, 2009 by Larry Ferlazzo
The Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) and the National Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) have recently issue a report titled Seeing is Believing: Promising Practices for How School Districts Promote Family Engagement. They describe it this way: “Seeing is Believing: Promising Practices for How School Districts Promote Family Engagement spotlights how six school districts across the country [...]
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Posted on July 25, 2009 by Larry Ferlazzo
The School Community Journal, a free academic journal that’s available online, has just published its Spring/Summer 2009 issue (it’s a PDF download). Two articles that look particularly intriguing are: “Walking the Walk: Portraits in Leadership for Family Engagement in Urban Schools” by Susan Auerbach “An Urban School District’s Parent Involvement: A Study of Teachers’ and [...]
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Posted on July 23, 2009 by Larry Ferlazzo
Several new useful reports have come-out related to parents and schools since our final manuscript was submitted. Here are links to several of them: * The Community Agenda For America’s Public Schools “A coalition of leading educators and community organizations has produced a “Community Agenda for America’s Public Schools.” The group, which includes Randi Weingarten, [...]
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Posted on July 23, 2009 by Larry Ferlazzo
What does it mean to engage parents? For a preview of the book, you can read two articles I wrote for Public School Insights earlier this summer. Here are links to all four in the series (two were written by Renee Moore, an exceptional teacher who is also a member of the Teacher Leaders Network): Part [...]
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Posted on July 23, 2009 by Larry Ferlazzo
Even though the book Building Parent Engagement In Schools won’t be published until this fall, I thought I’d take advantage of the summer months to get this blog started. One of my goals over the next month is to add quite a few useful links in the sidebar of this blog. I plan on writing about one post each [...]
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