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Promising Practices for Engaging Families in STEM Learning
This monograph explores how families, schools, and communities can promote student success in STEM by building equitable pathways for family engagement. It includes theoretical research, success stories, best practices, and policy recommendations, highlighting STEM as a powerful mechanism to connect, engage, and empower families.
Composing Storylines of Possibilities
This book shares the experiences of migrant families in local schools. Each chapter starts with a family vignette and ends with implications for educators. It calls for school transformation, urging engagement with migrant families and embracing a risk and resilience model to achieve success.
Promising Practices to Support Family Involvement in Schools
This monograph offers research-supported practices to reform schools, benefiting students, teachers, administrators, families, and communities. It aims to improve academic and school satisfaction outcomes. Prepared by experts, it's essential for teachers, administrators, researchers, policymakers, and university faculty.
Critical Perspectives on Education Policy and Schools, Families, and Communities
This book explores how current education policies impact families, schools, and communities, encouraging readers to rethink policy and its effects. It includes research based on diverse theories like critical race theory and critical disability theory, and examines a range of policies in Canada and the USA.
Promising Practices for Family and Community Involvement during High School
This volume explores family and community connections with high school education, highlighting their impact on student achievement and postsecondary attainment. It includes research on adolescent development, family involvement, and community partnerships, as well as practical approaches for enhancing educational environments.
Family and Community Partnerships
This book offers insights into building strong partnerships with families and communities. It highlights competencies, strategies and practices for educators, based on four guiding practices: reflect, connect, collaborate and lead. The book includes theory, real-world strategies, discussion questions and activities for educators.
Preparing Educators to Involve Families
′This book is a valuable resource for my course because I want students to think deeply about issues affecting children and families and to be advocates for them. Without serious reflection about systems theory, students are not able to move beyond simplistic solutions. The author does a superb job in conveying the book′s usefulness′ - Leo R. Sandy, Plymouth State University ′The authors frame the issues well, integrate the literature, and place the cases in theoretical perspective. The cases have the virtue of being grounded in experience. It is jargon free. The sections are crisp. It′s very readable. It′s a good starting point for further research′ - Helen M. Marks, Ohio Stat...
Learn & Live
A resource book that describes how education is changing nationwide by integrating technology with teaching and learning, and involving parents, business and the community.
Between Voice and Silence
More than any other psychologist, Carol Gilligan has helped us to hear girls' voices just when they seem to be blurring and fading or becoming disruptive during the passage into womanhood. When adolescent girls--once assured and resilient--silence or censor themselves to maintain relationships, they often become depressed, and develop eating disorders or other psychological problems. But when adolescent girls remain outspoken it is often difficult for others to stay in relationship with them, leading girls to be excluded or labeled as troublemakers. If this is true in an affluent suburban setting, where much of the groundbreaking research took place, what of girls from poor and working-class...
