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Developing Community-Empowered Schools
Developing CommunityEmpowered Schools
Author: Mary Ann Burke, Lawrence O. Picus
"Very thoughtful and practical, providing well-grounded strategies for effective implementation of community participation." — Gini Doolittle, Assistant Professor — Department of Educational Leadership, Rowan University, New Jersey Create environments for learning through school-community partnerships!<...  more »Burke and Picus make a case for improved learning through school-community partnerships. Drawing from their twenty years of experience working with parents, community volunteers, teachers, and school site administrators, the authors present a concise, easy-to-understand approach to building and working with these powerful alliances.Developing Community-Empowered Schools is structured to give the reader a clear overview of the necessary components and strategies to understand and develop these critical partnerships. Highlights include:
  • Defining community-empowered schools
  • Assessing your school’s strengths and weaknesses
  • Identifying stakeholders and their roles
  • Establishing policies and procedures that support school and community partnerships
  • Empowering and training staff for effective school and community partnerships
  • Recruiting and training volunteers
  • Creating a family literacy program
  • Building community collaborations for added resources
  • Viewing schools as economic solutions to communities
  • Examining the future of community-empowered schools
Handy overheads, training worksheets, sample memos from teachers to students’ families, and enough material for a one-day teacher-training workshop make this a practical, accessible, and valuable resource. In addition, in-depth information is provided on how to seek funding to sustain a school-based community program. Developing Community-Empowered Schools is an all-in-one guide and an essential desk-top reference for bringing all stakeholders together to create optimal learning environments.
ISBN-13: 9780761977896
ISBN-10: 0761977899
Publication Date: 3/12/2001
Pages: 128
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Publisher: Corwin Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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