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Building Relationships for Student Success
Diane Dorfman and Amy Fisher
November 2002
Building Relationships for Student Success: School-Family-Community Partnerships and Student Achievement in the Northwest, draws from current research and school experiences to give teachers, parents, and administrators examples of successful partnership strategies. Teachers, parents, and staff at six high-poverty, high-minority schools were interviewed to provide their perspective on what research-based methods look like in practice.
The strategies used by the schools can be grouped into three themes:
- Using curriculum that makes connections between students' lives and their families and communities
- Giving families tools to support their children (such as teaching them strategies for enhancing learning at home, explaining school policies and expectations, and linking with human services organizations)
- Building mutual, respectful relationships
Together, these voices of committed educators and families help deepen our understanding of family involvement practices, teaching us much about their diversity and creativity. They tell us how various kinds of schools and families work to build partnerships in ways that increase student achievement.
To order Building Relationships for Student Success, see the online catalog. The cost is $7.45 plus shipping and handling.
Building Relationships for Student Success is available online as a PDF file.
- Building Relationships for Student Success, 32pp., 1178K
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