Opening the Door: Parent Involvement in Early Childhood Education

by Ron Robertson

Overview

What's wrong with family engagement the traditional way? Absolutely nothing! Except, family involvement in early childhood education is creating a new tradition. Family Center can now be virtual.

This book will show you how to create professional training and programs that effectively encourages a new tradition for family involvement in children's early education.

Opening the Door to Parent Involvement provides schools, teachers, parents and communities proven family engagement intervention strategies to enhance the education of young children.

As early childhood providers are undergoing rapid change, Opening the Door to Parent Involvement provides strategies to ensur that families and communities are more connected than ever before to their children's experiences in the classroom.

Opening the Door to Parent Involvement forges a New Tradition for family engagement in early childhood education. This book prepares you for this exciting time. It's a widow of great opportunity you simply can't afford to waste.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781668539477
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	08/31/2021
Pages:	112
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.29(d)

About the Author

Working with families of early childhood age children entails a lot of responsibilities. Author Ron Robertson is President of Excellent Beginnings National Network, Inc., an early childhood education foundation and consulting firm. He is a past member of the U.S. Office of Education’s National Diffusion Network Advisory Board on Rural Education in America. Robertson is the retired early childhood and preschool manager of the lauded Virginia Preschool Initiative program of City of Richmond Public Schools.

Robertson works extensively with early childhood education teams composed of school administrators, teachers, parents, support staff, and community stakeholders throughout the country. It was in that work that his passion for family engagement took shape and emerged. Robertson is an advocate for parent engagement in the lives of children's education, and is a recognized voice for the replication of it on a national scale, particularly in at-risk communities with hard-to-reach families.

In his book, Opening the Door to Parent Involvement, Robertson helps educators move the needle from passive parental involvement to achievement of a higher level of home-school synchronous relationships.