Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family/school Partnerships

This book truly is the “essential guide to family-school partnerships.” The book is presented in an easy to read format, which combines hands on strategy ideas with personal examples. The chapters are broken down into important topics related to family involvement, including “hot topics” and ideas related to the importance of family involvement in school success. This book could easily become the go-to item for schools or organizations looking to improve or build up family-school partnerships.Research has shown us that family involvement is critical to a child’s success in education. This book gives you the tools you need to help to identify ways to improve family involvement in your school, child care, or family organization. It is easily applicable to any age level, and any level of teaching experience. This book helps educators and parents move beyond newsletters and parent conferences to find mutually beneficial ways to keep families and schools working together.The final two chapters of the book are especially useful, as they provide lists of resources in helping to build partnerships and a variety of checklists, surveys, and tools to help develop partnerships between families and schools. This book covers it all – from beginning to develop a relationships, to moving that relationship into a partnerships. The final chapter also includes information on developing a code of conduct and a district policy on partnerships – important aspects of family- school partnerships often overlooked.

Great book for all educators.

This is one of the best resources for educators. There are so many ways to assess, report and engage your staff, parents, and community. Working as a team, everyone can move forward toward student achievement!

Felt very idealistic at times, but if this helps school districts achieve even just a fraction of that partnership, that would be a wonderful improvement. Full of ideas and examples.

I am really loving this book. It gives very practical ideas on how to get parents in the school, literally, which in turn gets kids in school, literally. It is real out of the box thinking and puts a whole new perspective on the role Parent/Teacher organisations can play in your child's education. I am recommending it to every parent I know. Also, it doesn't just focus on elementary/primary level but the entire school experiencce from Kindy to Year 12. Another unique feature!

This is a good book if you want to become a school leader.

A must-have for every teacher!

Great resource for any school district looking to build parent and community partnerships. If you are a "Focus" or "Priority" district in New York State, this is full of perfect resources for Tenet 6.

This is a wonderful approach to inviting parents to be part of the school environment and their child's learning.