Developing Community-Empowered Schools – Mary Ann Burke (Hardback / Hard Cover)

Developing Community-Empowered Schools presents an effective approach to the implementation of successful school, family, and community partnership activities. Mary Ann Burke and Lawrence Picus draw on over 20 years of experience in working with schools to increase parent and community involvement. They strongly believe that by empowering stakeholders at each school site, better decisions about educational programmes will result, thereby improving learning for all students. They: examine the components of a community-empowered school; identify the stakeholders in a school; define the roles of each stakeholder, describing what each group can do to help the school reach its academic and resource goals; suggest policies and procedures that support school and community relationships; demonstrate how to seek funding to sustain a school-based community programme; explain how using the community as a school resource can provide a cost-effective solution to school finance; illustrate how the community benefits, socially and economically, from a school-community partnership; Resources and materials are also provided – sufficient to support a one-day teacher-training workshop on the utilization of parents and community tutors or mentors in the classroom – including overhead transparencies, training worksheets, and sample memos from teachers to students’ families.

Author: Mary Ann Burke
Format: Hardback / Hard Cover
Pages: 128
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