Links

Learning Contracts

• Parent-teacher Contract Letters
  An example of a contract letter to parents.
  

Communicating with Parents

• Preventing and Resolving Parent-Teacher Differences
  This article discusses the importance of communication between parents and teachers, pointing out that the context in which each sees the child is distinct and different from the other.
  
• Ongoing Communications
  An excellent outline of positive communication strategies: newsletters, phone calls, and workshops.
  
  

Involving Parents in Schools

• Creating the School Climate and Structures to Support Parent and Family Involvement
  An article on how evidence shows a strong connection between parent and family involvement in schools and student achievement.
  
• Three Ways That Schools Can Promote Parent Involvement
  Three ways that schools can promote parent involvement and closer working partnerships between educators and parents.
  
• Weissberg Urges Prevention Partnerships
  This successful researcher emphasizes a new brand of parent-teacher cooperation.
  
• Parental Involvement
  This website discusses the importance of parental involvement in education based on current research.
  
• Parent Volunteers: Good for Students and Schools
  Six basic ways to engage parents in their child's education.
  
• Parents as Partners in Education
  A good section on out-of-school programs, such as employee flex-time for parent involvement.
  

Parent-School Committees

• Investigating the Inclusion of Teachers, Parents and Students in Curriculum Leadership: Some Emerging Issues
  This paper discusses some pilot work that is enlarging the focus of stakeholders in curriculum leadership to include parents and students as well as teachers.
  

Parents-General Information

• Phi Delta Kappa International
  Phi Delta Kappa is an international association of professional educators. Their mission is to promote quality education with particular emphasis on publicly supported education, as essential to the development and maintenance of a democratic way of life.
  
• Phi Delta Kappan
  Phi Delta Kappan, the professional print journal for education, addresses policy issues for educators at all levels.
  
• Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
  The Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) is a nonprofit group of educators, from all countries and grade levels, committed to improving the learning process.
  
• Teaching preK-8
  A useful site covering many topics for educational professional developement.
  
• Home-to-School Connection
  This section of the Education World Website is devoted to providing resources to help bridge the between the classroom and family home.
  
  
  
  

 

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