School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action

by Joyce L. Epstein, Karen Clark Salinas

A practical guide on how to plan, implement and improve your school, family and community partnerships, this book takes you step-by-step from planning to implementation to results.

Genres: Education, Teaching, Grad School

248 pages, Paperback

First published October 30, 1997

Reviews

[Andrew Broere]

Some great material for workshops and seminars. I'll be using much of her material in crafting a better school-family partnership.

That being said, this book is 100 pages of solid research and relevant tips, followed by 250 pages of seminar material . . .

[Frank Scutella]

Eh. The content of this book could have been summed up in about twenty pages. Instead, it was dragged out for 350.

[Brian]

As someone who is married to an ex community school coordinator this book is invaluable and would have been a lifesaver if it had been around when she was on the job. It goes step by step for programming, relationship building, policy suggestions and thoughtful recommendations on how to build your core team. The accompanying CD is filled with lots of useful information and the workbook examples throughout are thought provoking and could be used as is in some schools. This is a great resource for anyone looking to harness the power of schools, communities and partnerships into transforming education into what it should be.

[Jess]

Gives practical advice to changing the relationship of your school with families and community

[Nay Nay]

Reading this for my principal intership. Has some good ideas and resources for creating school/family partnerships.

[Joseph]

If you love handouts and checklists, do I have the book for you...