Heidi Hass Gable has written a useful blog post containing advice to teachers about parent engagement. Here are two of her recommendations: 4) Listen to parents and listen to what they DON’T say. They may not articulate their concerns very well because fears and insecurities cloud their words/thinking. But whenever a parent is sharing something [...]
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As most regular readers know, the first book I wrote was Building Parent Engagement In Schools. If you haven’t seen it yet, you might be interested in reading this excerpt, Parent Involvement or Parent Engagement?, and/or this interview with me about the book.
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“Let’s Read Them a Story! The Parent Factor In Education” is a new book from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The link will take you to a free PDF version of it. The book is pretty impressive — good statistics, great cartoons from The New Yorker, and excellent advice for how parents can [...]
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Michele Molnar just posted a very useful Family Engagement Summer Reading List over at her Education Week blog. It’s got some good picks!
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Here are two more articles providing more information about yesterday’s approval of California parent trigger regulations b the State Board of Education: New parent trigger regs approved is from Thoughts on Public Education. Regulations approved for schools’ ‘Parent Trigger’ law is from The Los Angeles Times.
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Terry Freedman has written a review of my book, “Building Parent Engagement In Schools.” You might find it interesting…
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Lorna Constantini from Parents as Partners and Dorothy Gossling have created a Parent Tool Kit and accompanying Planning Parent Engagement Guidebook that is being distributed to all school boards and schools in Ontario. It’s a great piece of work and useful to anybody, anywhere. You can get free copies — in English or in French [...]
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You can now purchase a Kindle edition my book, Building Parent Engagement In Schools. You can read excerpts from the book here.
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The national teacher organization “Teachers Count” has just published an interview with me that focuses on parent engagement issues. Readers might find it useful/interesting.
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I just noticed today that the publisher has enabled the “Search Inside This Book” feature on Amazon for my book, Building Parent Engagement In Schools. So, now, in addition to all the previews and excerpts I’ve posted from the book, you can now access at least a few pages on the web (table of contents, [...]
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John Norton of the Teacher Leaders Network interviewed me for one of my favorite blogs (and I say that not just because of this interview ) You might want to read Expert Advice about Parent Engagement: An Interview with Larry Ferlazzo.
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I began this blog seven months ago — it was timed with the publication of my book, Building Parent Engagement In Schools. I thought it might be useful to share — in order of popularity — which posts have been “clicked-on” most over the past six months. Here are My Most Popular Posts On Parent [...]
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David Kapuler, writer of the popular ed tech blog Technology Tidbits, just published a very positive review of my book, Building Parent Engagement In Schools. Glad you liked it, David!
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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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Public School Insights is a blog about schools that I have praised a lot on my other blog. It’s sponsored by The Learning First Alliance, which is made-up of many national education organizations, including national associations of teachers, administrators, and school boards. I was honored yesterday when Claus von Zastrow, LFA’s Director, praised our book [...]
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The Sacramento City Unified School District declared this week to be “Parent Engagement Week.” Today, which is considered to be National Parent Involvement Day, our new Superintendent, Jonathan Raymond, held a news conference today highlighting parent engagement efforts in our district. He was kind enough to recognize my book and have me speak at the [...]
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Wordle is a free and easy web application that lets you paste text into it and then produces a “word cloud” illustrating the words that are used most with their size showing their frequency of use. It’s pretty neat. Here is the link to the Wordle for our book, “Building Parent Engagement In Schools.” I [...]
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In case you’re interested, Education World just published a short piece I wrote titled “A Parent Engagement Model That Works.” It gives a brief overview of my book.
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Smart Bean has just published an interview with me about our book Building Parent Engagement In Schools. They’ve titled the piece Engaging With Your Child’s School: Q&A with Larry Ferlazzo. Here’s how Smart Bean describes itself: SmartBean is a site for parents that aims to help parents make day to day decisions on practical aspects [...]
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Building Parent Engagement In Schools, my first book (written with Lorie Hammond), was published earlier this month. You can learn how readers of this blog can get a discount by reading this. You can read two “previews” of the book: One is an article I wrote for Public School Insights in April titled Parent Involvement [...]
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