Encourage community-wide partnerships to ensure student success!
This updated edition of the bestseller emphasizes a research-based framework for building community partnerships that reach out to all families and focus on increasing student learning. The authors identify eight elements for success: strong multi-level leadership, teamwork, annual written plans, well-implemented activities, adequate funding, thoughtful evaluations, strong networking, and continuous planning for improvement. The new edition includes:
New examples of successful partnership activities
Increased attention to connecting family/community involvement to goals for student success
New inventories that define leadership roles
A PowerPoint presentation of team-training workshops on CD-ROM, with Spanish translations of selected reproducibles