Tapping the Potential of Parents: A Strategic Guide to Boosting Student Achievement through Family Involvement

by Patricia A. Edwards

Overview

This breakthrough book features concrete strategies that foster strong family-school partnerships which, in turn, help guarantee student success. The strategies, which enable teachers to interact with diverse families, include class and school demographic profiles, parenting contracts, parent vision statements, and parent informant literacy groups. Home-school communication and cooperation are lifelines that will improve the academic achievement of all children regardless of race or economic status, cultural or linguistic background.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780545194921
Publisher:	Scholastic, Inc.
Publication date:	03/01/2009
Sold by:	Scholastic, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Patricia Edwards is a professor of teacher education at Michigan State University. She has developed two nationally acclaimed family literacy programs: Parents as Partners in Reading and Talking Your Way to Literacy. Her research focuses on issues related to families and children: parent involvement and teacher thinking, parent involvement in the reading/writing process, parent support of children's oral preparation for literacy, portfolio instructional conversations with parents during regularly scheduled parent-teacher conferences, and parents' stories of literacy and teachers' reactions to these stories.