Developing Community-Empowered Schools Book

Create environments for learning through school-community partnerships!Drawing from their twenty years of experience working with parents, community volunteers, teachers, and school site administrators, the authors present a concise, easy-to-understand approach to building and working with these powerful alliances. Highlights include:Defining community-empowered schoolsAssessing your school's strengths and weaknessesIdentifying stakeholders and their rolesEstablishing policies and procedures that support school and community partnershipsEmpowering and training staff for effective school and community partnershipsRecruiting and training volunteersCreating a family literacy programBuilding community collaborations for added resourcesViewing schools as economic solutions to communitiesExamining the future of community-empowered schoolsRead More