What Successful Schools Do to Involve Families: 55 Partnership Strategies » (New Edition)

Neal A. Glasgow has been involved in education on many levels for many years. His experience includes serving as a secondary school science and art teacher both in California and New York, as a university biotechnology teaching laboratory director and laboratory technician, and as an educational consultant and frequent speaker on many educational topics. He is the author or coauthor of ten books on educational topics: What Successful Schools Do to Involve Families: Fifty Research-Based Strategies for Teachers and Administrators (2008), What Successful Literacy Teachers Do: 70 Research-Based Strategies for Teachers, Reading Coaches, and Instructional Planners (2007), What Successful Teachers Do in Diverse Classrooms: 71 Research-Based Strategies for New and Veteran Teachers (2006); What Successful Teachers Do in Inclusive Classrooms: 60 Research-Based Strategies That Help Special Learners (2005); What Successful Mentors Do: 81 Researched-Based Strategies for New Teacher Induction, Training, and Support (2004); What Successful Teachers Do: 91 Research-Based Strategies for New and Veteran Teachers (2003); Tips for Science Teachers: Research-Based Strategies to Help Students Learn (2001); New Curriculum for New Times: A Guide to Student-Centered, Problem-Based Learning (1997); Doing Science: Innovative Curriculum Beyond the Textbook for the Life Sciences (1997); and Taking the Classroom to the Community: A Guidebook (1996).

This resource offers 55 research-based strategies to help educators bridge the gap between school and home by forming effective partnerships with every type of family group.

1 Parents, Families, Teachers, and Schools Appreciating and Supporting Each Other

2 Teachers, Students, Families, and Homework

3 Teachers, Students, Families, and Literacy

4 Teachers, Students, Families, and Mathematics

5 Teachers, Schools, Families, and the Special Education Student

6 Looking at the Roles of Nonparental Caregivers in the Student's Life

7 Communicating With Families and Bridging the Gap Between School and Home

8 Working With Families and Especially Challenging Students

9 Working With Families From Nondominate Cultures

10 Families, Schools, and the Social Aspects of the Classroom

11 The Role of School Administrator: Increasing Student Achievement Through Parent Involvement

Index