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Drawing from their 20 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 allies.
List of contents
Introduction
What Is a Community-Empowered School?
Who Are the Stakeholders?
Policies and Procedures That Support School and Community Partnerships
How to Empower and Train Staff for Effective School and Community Partnerships
Volunteer Strategies to Support Literary Activities
Building Community Collaborations for Added Resources
Schools as Economic Solutions to Communities
The Future of Community-Empowered Schools
About the author
Mary Ann Burke is the co-founder of the Generational Parenting Blog at genparenting.com. Dr. Burke presents effective parenting and school engagement strategies at numerous state and national parent engagement events. She creates Common Core State Standards kits and S.T.E.A.M. activities for parents to use at home and in their child's classroom to support children's literacy and academic readiness skills. Dr. Burke is an author or editor of four Corwin Press Books on parent and community engagement in schools. Mary Ann is an active grandmother of five grandchildren that include seven month old twin granddaughters, a four year old preschool grandson, a six-year-old kindergarten granddaughter, and a nine year old third grade grandson. She supports her grandchildren's literacy and academic development activity play at home and at their schools. Mary Ann is a credentialed parent educator for over thirty years in California's schools and a former adjunct professor. Dr. Burke previously led the Santa Clara County Office of Education's Parent Engagement Initiative that is a state model for best practices in parent engagement for culturally diverse families.
Summary
Drawing from their 20 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 allies.
