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Family Involvement in Children's Education - October 1997

Other Publications

The following publications provide profiles of innovative and effective parent involvement programs and/or offer guidance on program development.

Ban, J. (1993). Parents assuring student success (PASS). Bloomington, IN: National Education Service.

Describes a program in Indiana that successfully motivated and involved low-income families in their children's education.

Contact Information:
National Education Service
1252 Loesch Road
P.O. Box 8, Station T6
Bloomington, IN 47402-0008
(800) 733-6786
Fax: (812) 336-7790
Phone: (202) 364-4114

Building capacity for partnership through networking: Region IV, Title I school districts of Southwest Florida.

Provides examples of action plans for parent involvement programs and sample parent-school compacts developed by schools in Southwest Florida.

Contact Information:
Claud E. Leiby, Region IV Supervisor
3135 N. Washington Boulevard
Sarasota, FL 34234-6299
(941) 359-5650
Fax: (941) 359-5813

Creating healthy communities. (1996, August). Source, pp. 1-3.

Provides profiles of the Creating Healthy Communities program--a program that helps communities work with individuals, organizations, and their leaders to create healthy environments for youth.

Contact information:
(800) 888-7828
(612) 376-8955
Fax: (612) 376-8956

Epstein, J.L. (1995). School/family/community partnerships: Caring for the children we share. Phi Delta Kappan, 76: 701-712.

This article outlines the six major types of involvement, their challenges, and expected results to help schools develop comprehensive programs of school, family, and community partnerships that help meet goals for school improvement and student success.

Contact information for all publications authored by Joyce Epstein:
Center on Families, Communities, Schools, and Children's Learning
Johns Hopkins University
3505 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

Epstein, J.L., Coates, L., Salinas, K.C., Sanders, M.G., & Simon, B.S. (in press). School, family, and community partnerships: Your handbook for action. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.

This handbook provides research and practical guidelines for schools, districts, and state departments of education to plan, implement, and improve programs of school-family-community partnerships, including the development of an action team and the application of the framework of six types of involvement.

Epstein, J.L. Salinas, K.C. (1993). School and Family Partnerships: Surveys and Summaries. Baltimore, MD: Center on Families, Communities, Schools, and Children's Learning.

This document includes questionnaires for teachers, parents, and students as well as guidance on how schools can summarize survey data and use it to build and strengthen school-family partnerships.

Fruchter, N., Galletta, A., & White, J. L. (1992). New directions in parent involvement. New York: Academy for Educational Development.

Identifies and analyzes 18 recently developed programs or reforms that stress effective parental involvement as a means to improve student academic achievement, restructure schools, and reform public education, particularly in schools serving low-income and disadvantaged students.

Making the Connection

A weekly report that examines the efforts of educators, policymakers, and telecommunications companies to use technologies to break down barriers that frequently separate schools from homes and educators from parents.

Contact Information:
Education Week
Making the Connection
4301 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 250
Washington, DC 20008

National Education Service (Producer). (1996) Partners toward achievement: A home-school-community partnership. [video]. Bloomington, IN: Producer.

A two-video set that includes interviews with educators, parents, and students, and focuses on the practical strategies that can bring about more effective communication and collaboration between parents and teachers.

Contact Information:
National Education Service
1252 Loesch Road
P.O. Box 8, Station T6
Bloomington, IN 47402-0008
(800) 733-6786
Fax: (812) 336-7790
Phone: (202) 364-4114

Rioux, J. W. & Berla, N. (1993). Innovations in parent and family involvement. Princeton, NJ: Eye on Education.

Highlights innovative parental involvement programs for diverse populations from pre-kindergarten through high school, and provides strategies for creating successful programs.

Rogers, M. (1995). Planning for Title I programs: Guidelines for parents, advocates, and educators. Washington, DC: Center for Law and Education.

Provides timely information on Title I guidelines: what the law says, how to promote wider involvement, the roles of state and local education agencies, how schools can reach and assist parents, and organizations that parents can turn to for help.

Contact Information:
Center for Law and Education
1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Suite 510
Washington, DC 20009
Fax: (202) 986-6648
Phone: (202) 986-3000

U.S. Department of Education. (1993). Building school-family partnerships for learning: Workshops for urban educators. Washington, DC: Author. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 364-651)

Contains materials for five workshops with leader guides, transparency masters, and handouts designed for local staff development activities in elementary education (K-6). The publication contains the following workshops: Homework and Home Learning Activities; School Programs and Practices; Families as Learning Environments; Communication Skills and Strategies; and School District Policies and Supports for School-Family Partnerships.

U.S. Department of Education. (1996). Goals 2000: Educate America Act parent information and resource centers grant abstracts FY 1995. Washington, DC: Author.

This list of 28 parent information and resource centers located in states across the country includes descriptions of the services each center provides. (See State Parent Information and Resource Centers: appendix B.)

U.S. Department of Education. (1996). Reaching all families: Creating family-friendly schools. (August, 1996). Washington, DC: Author.

This booklet contain strategies for and examples of parent outreach activities such as the fall open house, parent-teacher conferences, parent resource centers, and positive telephone communications.

U.S. Department of Education. (1994). Strong families, strong schools: Building community partnerships for learning. Washington, DC: Author.

This booklet describes how schools, businesses, communities, states and federal programs can help parents take a more active role in their child's learning.
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