Developing Community-Empowered Schools - Mary Ann Burke - Paperback Bog - SAGE Publications Inc - 2001 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk

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"Very thoughtful and practical, providing well-grounded strategies for effective implementation of community participation." Gini Doolittle, Assistant Professor Department of Educational Leadership, Rowan University, New Jersey Create environments for learning through school-community partnerships! Burke and Picus make a case for improved learning through school-community partnerships. Drawing from their twenty years of experience working with parents, community volunteers, teachers, and school site administrators, the authors present a concise, easy-to-understand approach to building and working with these powerful alliances. Developing Community-Empowered Schools is structured to give the reader a clear overview of the necessary components and strategies to understand and develop these critical partnerships. Highlights include: - - Defining community-empowered schools - - Assessing your school′s strengths and weaknesses - - Identifying stakeholders and their roles - - Establishing policies and procedures that support school and community partnerships - - Empowering and training staff for effective school and community partnerships - - Recruiting and training volunteers - - Creating a family literacy program - - Building community collaborations for added resources - - Viewing schools as economic solutions to communities - - Examining the future of community-empowered schools Handy overheads, training worksheets, sample memos from teachers to students′ families, and enough material for a one-day teacher-training workshop make this a practical, accessible, and valuable resource. In addition, in-depth information is provided on how to seek funding to sustain a school-based community program. Developing Community-Empowered Schools is an all-in-one guide and an essential desk-top reference for bringing all stakeholders together to create optimal learning environments.