As a result of over 20 years of experience in working with schools to increaseparent and community involvement and witnessing the outcomes the authors ofthis bo... » 

As a result of over 20 years of experience in working with schools to increaseparent and community involvement and witnessing the outcomes the authors ofthis book strongly believe that by empowering stakeholders at each school sitebetter decisions about educational programmes will result thereby improvinglearning for all students.The eight chapters of this book develop an effective approach to theimplementation of successful school family and community partnershipactivities. In the first chapters the authors examine the components of acommunityempowered school identify the stakeholders in a school and definethe roles of each stakeholder describing specifically what each group can doto help the school reach its academic and resource goals. Policies andprocedures that support school and community relationships including programmemonitoring supervision and volunteer support are put forth in Chapter Three.Chapter Four provides overheads training worksheets and sample memos fromteachers to students families enough to support a oneday teachertrainingworkshop on the utilization of parents and community tutors or mentors in theclassroom. Later chapters demonstrate how one should seek funding to sustain aschoolbased community programme and explain how using the community as aschool resource can provide a costeffective solution to school finance.Finally the authors illustrate how the community benefits socially andeconomically from a schoolcommunity partnership. «