Since I have published so many “The Best…” lists, I thought it might be helpful to readers if I posted a few year-end collections. Here is A Collection Of “The Best…” Lists On Parent Engagement — 2011: The Best Ideas On How Parents Can Help Their Kids Succeed Academically “The Best Research Available On Parent [...]
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I’ve found several good resources sharing ideas on how parents can best help their children learn, and decided to bring them together in one post. You can see all my parent engagement-related “The Best” lists here. Here are my picks for The Best Ideas On How Parents Can Help Their Kids With Schoolwork At Home: [...]
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I’ve written quite a few posts about parent engagement in countries other than the United States, and decided to bring together the best resources into one list.You can see all my parent engagement-related “The Best” lists here. Here are my choices for The Best Resources On Parent Engagement In Countries Other Than The U.S.: Parents [...]
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I’ve written quite a few articles on parent engagement, and decided to bring them together in one list. You might also be interested in seeing all my parent engagement-related “The Best” lists here. Here are my picks for My Best Posts, Articles & Interviews On Parent Engagement: Involvement or Engagement? is the title of my [...]
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There are lots of ideas out there about effective parent engagement/involvement. Here are a few resources that provide useful overviews of the field. You might also be interested in seeing all my parent engagement-related “The Best” lists here. Here are my choices for The Best Overviews Of Parent Engagement: Involvement or Engagement? is the title [...]
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“Blame” has certainly been a theme of many school reform discussions — including blaming teachers and blaming parents. Here are some commentaries on why no one, including teachers, should get sucked into that morass. You might also be interested in seeing all my parent engagement-related “The Best” lists here. Parents Are Our Allies is a [...]
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There is a substantial amount of research available on parent engagement/involvement, and I thought bringing together a few of the best resources would be useful. You can also see all my parent engagement-related “The Best” lists here. Here are my picks for The Best Research Available On Parent Engagement: The Harvard Family Research Project has [...]
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As regular readers know, I’ve been “curating” resources I’ve posted about over the past three years. You can see all my parent engagement-related “The Best” lists here. Here are my choices for The Best Resources On Parent/Teacher Conferences: Successful Student-Led School Conferences is from Middleweb. Parent–Teacher Conference Tip Sheets (Hojas de Consejos Para Las Reuniones [...]
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I’ve posted a lot about good parent engagement/involvement ideas, but sometimes you can learn just as much from looking at bad examples. You can see lots of good ideas at all my parent engagement-related “The Best” lists here. Here are my choices for The Worst Parent Engagement Ideas: Putting Parents in Charge is a condescending [...]
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I was a community organizer for nineteen years prior to becoming a high school teacher, so obviously have a strong interest in how organizing can related to schools. You can also see all my parent engagement-related “The Best” lists here. Here are my choices for The Best Examples Of Parent Engagement Through Community Organizing: What Can [...]
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Last year, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announced a $100 million contribution to Newark schools, and made a public commitment to parent and community engagement. I’ve written a lot since that time about how that second part hasn’t worked out real well. It’s great that they recognized the importance of speaking to parents. However but just sending [...]
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I’ve posted many resources providing parent engagement for teachers, and thought I’d bring them all together in a “The Best….” list. The resources listed here provide practical advice to teachers. You can see all my parent engagement-related “The Best” lists here. Here are my picks for The Best Sources Of Parent Engagement Advice For Teachers: [...]
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I’m a big proponent of teachers making home visits, and I wrote a chapter about it in my book on parent engagement. I work closely with the Parent-Teacher Home Visit Project, which happens to be based in Sacramento. I thought it might be useful if I brought together some of the related resources I’ve posted [...]
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I usually just do a year-end list on parent engagement posts and many other topics, but it gets a little crazy having to review all of my zillion posts at once. So, to make it easier for me — and perhaps, to make it a little more useful to readers — I’m going to start [...]
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Over the past two years, I have posted: My Best Posts On Building Parent Engagement In Schools — 2010 My Best Posts On Parent Engagement Over The Past Six Months My Best Posts & Articles About Building Parent Engagement In Schools — 2009 My Best Posts On Parent Engagement So Far This Year It’s been [...]
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As regular readers know, I have very serious concerns about the so-called “parent trigger.” This California law (which may be spreading to other states) allows 51% of parents whose children attend a “low-performing” school ( or parents who will have children attending that school in the future), to sign a petition and have major changes [...]
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I thought readers might find it useful if I brought together my choices for The Best Posts On Building Parent Engagement In Schools during this past year. You might also be interested in last year’s edition: My Best Posts & Articles About Building Parent Engagement In Schools — 2009 Here they are (not in any [...]
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Over the past year-and-a-half, I have posted: My Best Posts & Articles About Building Parent Engagement In Schools — 2009 My Best Posts On Parent Engagement So Far This Year It’s been six months since I shared my latest “picks” from my Engaging Parents In School blog, which I began when my book, Building Parent [...]
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Last December, I posted My Best Posts & Articles About Building Parent Engagement In Schools — 2009, a compilation of what I thought were the most useful posts in this blog last year. As we near the end of this school year, I thought readers might be interested in hearing which posts I’ve written since [...]
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I’ve been doing a lot of work this year on building parent engagement in schools, including having a book published (Building Parent Engagement In Schools) and starting a new blog called Engaging Parents In School. Plus, I continuing to do the usual work at our school of actually engaging parents, too! I thought readers of [...]
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