Powerful Partnerships: A Teacher?s Guide to Engaging Families for Student Success

I needed this book for graduate school and the book store was sold out. It was also $30 more.

Good content and good resources for teachers in grades pre-k through 12

There were many good ideas. The book was a little boring in places so I really had to focus to finish it. Looking forward to reading one of the recommended books they talked about.

Amazing insights to more respectful, equitable, anti-racist household/ family engagement.

We had an Inservice regarding this book. Very helpful information.

I enjoyed so much of this book. It includes many wonder ideas to develop relationships with the families of your students.It is a quick read, but is not just fluff.

Good

As a school, we are trying to build stronger relationships with our parents. We are contacting them more often with phone calls and text messages and having more family nights. We have also begun using email with our registration so that we can communicate through email to parents on a regular basis. This has given me a few more ideas, but wasn't completely what I was looking for. While it is teacher focused, it doesn't say more than what we are already doing. For instance, they want to make sure that we are listening to what they are going through versus just telling them about the issues at school. In all of the parent conferences that we have, we always start out with the parent talking and we start our phone conversations with asking what is happening at home because it gives us insight on what is happening at school.