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Engaging Families & Communities: Pathways to Educational Success
Engaging Families Communities Pathways to Educational Success Author:Larry E. Decker, Virginia A. Decker, Mary Richardson Boo, Gloria A. Gregg, Joanne Erickson This book is intended to help educators weave some of the best ideas for creating and maintaining family and community engagement into a comprehensive family-school-community involvement program that is tailored to their own communities. This resource addresses the principles and strategies of family and community involvement; ways to develop a ... more »deeper understanding of your community; the essential roles of communities, homes, and schools as partners; school-community collaboration; school public relations; the management of political realities; school safety and crisis management; the planning for and evaluation of a comprehensive home-school-community relations program; and ways to tap public resources for the program. Each chapter includes references for that particular topic, and the appendixes have extensive contact information for organizations and associations as well as Web sites by major focus or content area.« less