The latest issue of School Community has been published and is available online for free. It includes: Can We Talk? Using Community–Based Participatory Action Research to Build Family and School Partnerships with Families of Color – Denise Yull, Lisa V. Blitz, Tonia Thompson, and Carla Murray “It’s Like We’re One Big Family”: Marginalized Young People, […]
The School Community Journal is a must-read for anyone involved in parent engagement activities, and you can access the new issue online here. I’m particularly impressed with Lee Shumow’s critique/review of the infamous Broken Compass book which leads off the issue. I’m adding it to The Best Commentaries On The “Broken Compass” Parent Involvement Book. […]
The latest free issue of School Community Journal has just been published. Some of the articles seem pretty esoteric to me, but there are also some that look intriguing…
The summer issue of “School Community Journal” is now available online for free. It includes many articles, including: Six Years Later: Effect of Family Involvement Training on the Language Skills of Children From Migrant Families – Lisa St. Clair, Barbara Jackson, and Rose Zweiback Family–School Connections in Rural Educational Settings: A Systematic Review of the […]
The latest issue of The School Community Journal has just been published. It’s available free online, and has a number of useful parent involvement/engagement articles.
The newest issue of The School Community Journal has just been published and is available online. It has quite a few article worth checking-out….
I’ve previously posted about the School Community Journal, an academic journal focusing on school/community connections that comes out twice a year The newest issue has just been published, and it might be worth a look.
The Spring/Summer 2010 issue of The School Community Journal is now online. The Journal is a must-read for anybody interested in parent engagement issues. You can read past issues here.
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 […]
Communicating with #ELL Families During COVID-19: 10 Strategies for Schools | https://t.co/pU6zvh51Ox #ellchat @sharemylesson @aftunion @TESOL_Assn — Colorín Colorado (@ColorinColorado) September 10, 2020 How can parents navigate the stresses of the pandemic without it straining their relationship? Here are five tips, based on decades of research. @GreaterGoodSC https://t.co/36ctXIeZ3X — MindShift (@MindShiftKQED) September 10, 2020 The […]
Survey: More than half of US teachers concerned about language barriers with ESL parents is from Education Dive. Parent Strategies for Improving Their Child’s Reading and Writing is from NWEA. Check out The School Community Journal. How To Make Sure Your Math Anxiety Doesn’t Make Your Kids Hate Math is from NPR. New York City's […]
Don’t Help Your Kids With Their Homework is the title of an article that appeared a few weeks ago in The Atlantic. It was written by Dana Goldstein. It describes research shared in a new book, The Broken Compass:Parental Involvement With Children’s Education by two professors which, at least according to Dana Goldstein, questions most […]
Be sure to check out the comments section for even more great ideas! I’d like to create a very lengthy list of lessons that require students to engage with their parents and families in a positive way. I know I’ve previously posted about some, but I need to track them down. I’m also hoping that […]
Interactive Homework Spurs Parent Involvement, Study Finds is the title of a useful blog post by Sarah Sparks over at Education Week. Here’s an excerpt: Homework assignments that require help from family members can get parents more involved in middle school, a time many parents become less visible in school, concludes a new study in […]
The Academic Institute administers (at least, that’s what I think is the correct term to describe it) a number of parent/school activities and projects, including two which I’ve already posted about in this blog — Families-Schools.org and the School Community Journal. The Des Moines Register just published an article about their work in East St. […]