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4.10 Active Partners All members of the school community are active partners in governance, and support and participate in schoolwide improvement efforts. 
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Related Resources Tools Acronym Finder Acronym Finder has over 60,000 entries in its data base. Publication Date: 1988-2008 Publisher: The Acronym Finder An Action Guide for Community and Parent Leaders This guide identifies ten major provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act seen to be most important for community engagement in order to help parents and community members assess where to focus their efforts within their own schools and districts. Publisher: Public Education Network Arizona Department of Education Online Newsletters Tom Horne Reports to Educators is a monthly publication with information for the education community. In this newsletter, you will receive articles regarding Best Practices, Highly Qualified Teachers, Solution Teams, academic contests and scholarships, department information, upcoming events and deadlines, and more. Publisher: Arizona Department of Education College Is Within Reach: Helping Parents Support the Achievement of their Middle and High School Students Part of a PEN initiative to build capacity among parents and teachers to help prepare students for rigorous academic standards, this site describes a workshop to help parents know what their children are expected to learn, how they are evaluated, and how they can help their children define goals. Publisher: Public Educational Network Dialogue Guide for Facilitators Dialogue Guides are models for conducting interactive discussions across stakeholders in states and districts. These packages make new use of dependable and publicly available information. Each Guide circulates a common set of source materials and suggested procedures for involving various audiences. In this manner, stakeholders (families, practitioners, professional associations, professors, policymakers, legislators) all over the country can begin interacting in new ways around implementation issues. Publication Date: May 2005 Publisher: IDEA, NASDSE, US Office of Special Education Helping Every Student Succeed: Schools and Communities Working Together This article describes how community-wide study circles in which large numbers of community members simultaneously meeting in small groups can be used to discuss how all students in the community can succeed academically and develop specific actions to meet those goals. Publication Date: 2002 Publisher: Study Circles Resource Center, Topsfield Foundation, Inc. Presenter's Guide: Response to Intervention and SLD Identification This presenter’s guide is intended to support the PowerPoint slides by offering · Suggested background readings; · Talking points relative to each slide; · Suggested activities to enhance learning opportunities for participants; · Tips to facilitate the professional growth experience; and · Suggested readings for extension Publication Date: July 2007 Publisher: IDEA, NASDSE, US Office of Special Education Sample Parent Communication Log This tool provides a sample parent communication log. Remember to keep an individual log for each student, contact parents immediately if you have concerns about their child, and make sure to list the reason for contacting that parent. Publication Date: 2003 Publisher: Education World Articles NEW! Raising Their Voices: Engaging students, teachers, and parents to help end the High School Dropout Epidemic Author: John Bridgeland, Robert Balfanz, Laura Moore, and Rebecca Friant Publication Date: 2010 Publisher: Civic Enterprises NEW! Schools, Families, and Response to Intervention This article discusses how Response to Intervention (RTI) can build partnerships with parents through collaborative problem solving. Author: Amy Reschly Publication Date: 2009 Publisher: RTI Action Network NEW! Seeing is Believing: Promising Practices for How School Districts Promote Family Engagement This article offers recommendations and promising practices to help ensure quality family engagement efforts. Author: Helen Westmoreland, Heidi M. Rosenberg, M. Elena Lopez, Heather Weiss Publication Date: 2009 Publisher: Harvard Family Research Project NEW! How to Develop a Logic Model for Districtwide Family Engagement Strategies This tool defines the steps between family engagement and better learning for children and youth, as well as offers a sample logic model based on promising practices. The full text PDF is available on this page. Author: Helen Westmoreland, M. Elena Lopez, Heidi Rosenberg Publication Date: 2009 Publisher: Harvard Family Research Project NEW! The Outside-Inside Connection This article states that schools can increase their success by interacting with the external community. Author: Thomas Hatch Publication Date: 2009 Publisher: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) A Parents’ Guide to Truancy This publication discusses truancy and provides parents with prevention and intervention strategies. Publication Date: 2009 Publisher: Hamilton Fish Institute Beyond Islands of Excellence: What Districts Can Do to Improve Instruction and Achievement in All Schools Profiling five districts that have promoted improvement across their entire school systems, this report examines their motivation to begin reform, guiding strategies, role of professional development in their efforts, the impact of various stakeholders on these efforts, and distribution of leadership among stakeholders to facilitate improvement. Publication Date: 2003, March Publisher: Learning First Alliance Co-Constructing Family Involvement In order to discuss the co-construction of home-school partnerships to support children’s learning and development, the authors of this article point out 5 constructs that can serve children from kindergarten through high school. Author: M. Elena Lopez, Holly Kreider, and Margaret Caspe Publication Date: 2005 Publisher: Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) Creating An Appetite for Change This policy brief reports the experiences of leaders involved in three long-term community-wide educational reform projects intended to improve the educational performance of all students, and particularly those seen to be affected by poverty or race. It also discusses the role of motivation to collaborate, organizational issues involving higher education, how success is measured, issues of scale, and advice for others. Publication Date: 2000, May Publisher: Leader’s Perspectives on Promoting K-16 Reform through Community Collaboration Family Involvement in Middle and High School Students' Education The brief discusses the latest research on effective involvement, including the research studies that link family involvement during the middle and high school years to outcomes and programs that have been evaluated to show what works. Author: Holly Kreider, Margaret Caspe, Susan Kennedy, and Heather Weiss Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Harvard Family Research Project Helping Your Child Learn History By showing interest in their children’s education, families can spark enthusiasm in them and lead them to a very important understanding—that learning can be enjoyable as well as rewarding and is well worth the effort required. This booklet provides activities to increase interest in and knowledge of history. Author: John McGrath Publication Date: 2004, June Publisher: U.S. Department of Education Homework Requires Teamwork— Between Teachers and Parents Evidence is strong that homework improves student achievement, especially when coupled with strong parental support. Both teachers and parents should remember to place appropriate emphasis on the importance of homework. Author: Dr. Robert C. Hanna Publication Date: 2001 Publisher: Mackinac Center for Public Policy Increasing Student Attendance: Strategies from Research and Practice This publication offers research-based ideas for developing better policies and practices to increase attendance. Publication Date: 2004 Publisher: Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory Lessons From Family-Strengthening Interventions: Learning From Evidence-Based Practice This brief is a review of interventions that have been rigorously evaluated through experimental studies and offers educators, service providers, and evaluators recommendations for creating successful programs and evaluations. Author: Margaret Caspe and M. Elena Lopez Publication Date: 2006 Publisher: Harvard Family Research Project Meeting Challenges Through Communities of Practice: New Eyes, Facilitating Community There are a number of key strategies that are fundamental to the Communities of Practice approach. The strategies in this article can assist Communities of Practice leaders and facilitators in building a strong foundation and enhancing stakeholder participation. Author: Joanne Cashman, Patrice Linehan and Mariola Rosser Publication Date: July 2007 Publisher: IDEA Partnership and NASDSE Reading Next: A Vision for Action and Research in Middle and High School Literacy The authors outline 15 key elements of an effective literacy intervention, and call on public and private stakeholders to invest in the literacy of middle and high school students today, while simultaneously building the knowledge base. Author: Gina Biancarosa and Catherine Snow Publication Date: 2004 Publisher: Alliance for Excellent Education The ABCs of RTI: A Guide for Parents This document provides information regarding the use of RTI to identify and instruct children with specific learning disabilities. Author: Donald D. Deshler, Melinda A. McKnight, and Daryl F. Mellard Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: The National Research Center on Learning Disabilities The Home and School Team This article provides strategies and resources parents can use to understand the types of assessments that are used in schools. Author: Roberta Furger Publication Date: 2002 Publisher: Edutopia What Content-Area Teachers Should Know About Adolescent Literacy This report suggests methods for improving reading and writings skills in all classrooms. Author: Kris Anstrom, Trenace Richardson, Tanya Shuy, Rebecca J. Moak, Mary A. Campbell and Peggy McCardle Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Working With the Public on Big Decisions This book describes how school leaders are incorporating more participatory strategies into decision making in order to avoid conflict and build support. Organizing small groups from a broad base of community members and asking participants to take action on their recommendations are suggested. Author: Matt Leighninger Publication Date: 2003, November Useful Links Arizona K-12 Online Course Catalog The Arizona Department of Education provides the following K-12 online course offering catalog. This catalog represents a listing of some of the K-12 online programs available to students statewide in a centralized location so that schools, parents, and students can view the vast course selection available to them. Publisher: Arizona Department of Education Arizona Teacher Induction Programs/Guidelines This link provides information on the quality beginning teacher induction programs offered by Arizona universities. Publisher: Arizona Department of Education Character Education and Development Unit The ADE Character Education and Development Unit provides professional development training and materials at no cost to educators and administrators statewide. Training and materials address strategies for improving school climate/culture, classroom management, and student behavior. Community and Family Engagement: Principals Share What Works This report shares six keys to engaging families, staff, partners, and the community within the school culture. Author: Amy Berg, Atelia Melaville, and Martin Blank Publication Date: 2006 Publisher: Metlife Foundation GreatSchools.Net GreatSchools.net provides individual and comparison data on public, private, and charter schools to help track school performance. Homework Tips for Parents Homework has been a part of students' lives since the beginning of formal schooling in the United States. However, the practice has sometimes been accepted and other times rejected, both by educators and parents. This document presents research concerning homework, and gives examples of how parents can express positive attitudes about the value of success in school to their children. Publication Date: 2003, May Publisher: U.S. Department of Education Leave No Parent Behind Project Appleseed seeks to create partnerships with state departments of education, nonprofit groups, and corporate partners whose business, philanthropic, and educational objectives can be met through a Leave No Parent Behind Partnership! Publisher: Project Appleseed Parents as Teachers National Center The Parents as Teachers National Center provides a program designed to enhance child development and achievement through parent education. RTI Response to Intervention Glossary This is a list of terms and acronyms used when discussing RtI, Response to Intervention. Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: IDEA Partnership, NASDSE, & US Office of Special Education Tool Kit for Hispanic Families This toolkit provides information on what to expect from schools, teachers and children. It also provides ways to help your child through school, what resources are available, and what your family and community can do to help in the learning process. Publication Date: 2005 Publisher: U.S. Department of Education ©2005 WestEd. All rights reserved. |
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