The Parent Centered Early School

Author : Michael R. Williams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000525597
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Parent-Centered Early School written by Michael R. Williams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-12 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1997. This case study of a small independent parent-run program in Milwaukee's inner city, finds that several factors combine to make the school effective: parental involvement at all levels including governance; a clear and shared sense of mission; and a coherent Montessori curriculum that takes children from preschool through the third grade. The study employed data from several surveys of parents, teachers, interviews with participants, and observation over five years. Begun twenty-seven years ago by parents and community members alienated from dysfunctional public schools and still supported mostly by contributions, Highland today is one of only a dozen schools in the United States receiving some of its revenue under a voucher program that provides state funds to independent schools. After an overview of Highland's history, demographics, and measures of success, two chapters examine the school's commitment to diversity, nonviolence, child nurturance, and egalitarianism. Other chapters focus on how Highland involves its parents and how parents alone govern the school, analyze the role of Highland's trustees, and details the school's Montessori curriculum. The final chapter explores the possibility of applying some of Highland's lessons to public school curriculums.

Author : Janis Keyser
Publisher : Redleaf Press
ISBN 13 : 1929610882
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Parents to Partners written by Janis Keyser and published by Redleaf Press. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proven tools and strategies for partnering with parents as an essential element in successful ECE programs.

Author : Sharon A. Raver
Publisher : Brookes Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781598575699
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family-centered Early Intervention written by Sharon A. Raver and published by Brookes Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aligned with DEC recommended practices and CEC standards! A must for future early interventionists.

Author : Karen L. Bierman
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030746178
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family-School Partnerships During the Early School Years written by Karen L. Bierman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents research-based family-school intervention programs that target the specific developmental period of preschool through the early elementary years, focusing on promoting positive child transitions into school. It explores critical intervention issues, including the need to understand mechanisms of efficacy, issues with real-world implementation, and methods for scaling family-school interventions. The volume references developmental research to highlight the importance of family-school partnerships at this critical transition period. Several chapters briefly describe research on proven intervention models that are effective in promoting family-school partnerships as children enter kindergarten and foster positive school outcomes. Each chapter concludes with a review of the most critical next steps in family-school intervention research within the context of the early school years. At the end of the book, several commentary chapters address overall implications for future research and methods for advancing the field, including perspectives on research-informed family-school practices and policies. Not only does the volume highlight interventions that work effectively to engage families with schools, it focuses on identifying critical components and processes that may underlie effective intervention outcomes and offers agendas for future research and intervention diffusion efforts. Key topics of coverage include: Presenting the logic model of the intervention program. Exploring questions concerning critical elements of family-school partnerships that may account for children’s positive outcomes. Discussing the challenges and strategies for scalability and broad diffusion. Family-School Partnerships During the Early School Years is a valuable resource for researchers, professionals and graduate students in child and school psychology, educational policy and politics, family studies, developmental psychology, sociology of education, sociology, and anthropology.

Author : Arthur J. Reynolds
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803239364
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Success in Early Intervention written by Arthur J. Reynolds and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a valuable source of information on the long-term effects of early intervention programs on the education of children living in economically disadvantaged areas and in other contexts. Early intervention programs such as Head Start enjoy popular and legislative support, but until now, policymakers and practitioners have lacked hard data on the long-term consequences of such locally and federally mandated efforts. Success in Early Intervention focuses on the Child-Parent Center (CPC) program in Chicago, the second oldest (after Head Start) federally funded early childhood intervention program. Begun in 1967, the program currently operates out of twenty-four centers, which are located in proximity to the elementary schools they serve. The CPC program?s unique features include mandatory parental involvement and a single, sustained educational system that spans preschool through the third grade. Central to this study is a 1986 cohort of nearly twelve hundred CPC children and a comparison group of low income children whose subsequent activities, challenges, and achievements are followed through the age of fifteen. The lives of these children amply demonstrate the positive long-term educational and social consequences of the CPC program.

Author : Janet Gonzalez-Mena
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 : 9780132657143
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child, Family, and Community written by Janet Gonzalez-Mena and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixth edition of Child, Family, and Community: Family-Centered Early Care and Education continues to provide you with essential information in a friendly and assessable manner. It discusses the socialization and education of young children in home, child care, and educational contexts from birth to 8 years old. The sixth edition is written to and provides concrete strategies for a broader audience to better meet the needs of aspiring professionals of all types including educators, social workers, and parents. The theme of the revision is advocacy and new Advocacy in Action features present personal stories of well known professionals who have made a difference in the lives of others. This new edition will truly inspire you to become an advocate to improve the lives of children and families, education, and society.

Author : Mary Muhs
Publisher : Redleaf Press
ISBN 13 : 1605546062
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family Engagement in Early Childhood Settings written by Mary Muhs and published by Redleaf Press. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working with parents and families can be a challenge, especially when there are contradicting expectations. However, it can also be a joyful and empowering experience for both the program and the family if partnering with families is built into the program’s culture. Following a strengths-based approach, Family Engagement in Early Childhood Settings offers all programs, including family child care, center-based and school-based programs, strategies for building or enhancing interactions, engagement, expectations, communication and participation with families. This Redleaf Quick Guide provides clear information of what to do as well as what not to do when encouraging family engagement in early care and education programs. Readers will find helpful information on making the best first impressions with parents in-person and online, establishing effective and supportive intake meetings for both parents and program, setting expectations from both perspectives, two-way communication strategies including daily conversations, verbal and technological methods, conferences and documenting learning, and creating a culture of family engagement embedded into every part of your program.

Author : Julie Powers
Publisher : Redleaf Press
ISBN 13 : 1605544396
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parent Engagement in Early Learning written by Julie Powers and published by Redleaf Press. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition of Parent-Friendly Early Learning brings to life real scenarios that care providers face in today's world. We know parent engagement is important for a child's success, but how do you turn parent-provider relationships into partnerships? Learn how to improve parent-teacher communication, deal with family issues and special complications, and how to work with the modern family. Julie Powers has worked with children, families, educators, and communities for over forty years. She started preschool programs at the Dodge Nature Center in St. Paul, Minnesota, an inclusion-based program for Catalina Foothills School District in Tucson, Arizona, and was a consultant for the Air Force Child Development Centers. She has taught at colleges across the country and is currently an associate professor of early childhood education at University of Hawaii Maui College.

Author : Janie E. Funkhouser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family Involvement in Children's Education written by Janie E. Funkhouser and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schools that are most successful in engaging parents and other family members in support of their children's learning look beyond traditional definitions of parent involvement--parent teacher organizations or signing report cards--to a broader conception of supporting families in activities outside of school that can encourage their children's' learning. This idea book is intended to assist educators, parents, and policy makers as they develop school-family partnerships, identifying and describing successful strategies used by 20 local Title I programs. Following an executive summary, the book notes resources for involving families in education, includes research supporting such partnerships, and describes how Title I encourages partnerships. Next, the book describes successful local approaches to family involvement in education, organized around strategies for overcoming common barriers to family involvement, including: (1) overcoming time and resource constraints; (2) providing information and training to parents and school staff; (3) restructuring schools to support family involvement; (4) bridging school-family differences; and (5) tapping external supports for partnerships. Finally, the book presents conclusions about establishing and sustaining partnerships, noting that at the same time that successful partnerships share accountability, specific stakeholders must assume individual responsibility, and that those schools that succeed in involving large numbers of parents invest energy in finding solutions for problems, not excuses. Four appendices present profiles of 10 successful partnerships, descriptions in table format of 20 successful local approaches, contact information for profiled partnership programs, and resources for building successful partnerships. Contains 13 references. (HTH)

Author : Kevin J. Swick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teacher-parent Partnerships to Enhance School Success in Early Childhood Education written by Kevin J. Swick and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication discusses issues of parent-teacher partnerships that affect children's development. An introductory chapter suggests that the central figures in fostering the development of a child's potential are the significant adults in the child's world. Chapter 2 considers family relationships as prototypes for later partnerships, and lists several family attributes, such as love, communication, and commitment, that promote partnerships. Chapter 3 lists attributes of parents and teachers that promote parent-teacher partnerships, and explains several paradigms of parent and teacher involvement in family and school. Chapter 4 stresses the importance of establishing partnerships during the child's early years, and warns of the dangers of degrading partnerships for at-risk parents. Chapter 5 suggests a framework for teacher-parent partnerships and offers examples of successful partnership programs. The chapter also suggests partnership strategies, including home visits, training programs, conferences, newsletters, efforts to welcome parents, homework activities, and the involvement of parents in decision making. Chapter 6 addresses the topics of evaluation of partnerships, role conflicts and confrontation within partnerships, cultural differences as learning experiences, and support for at-risk families. Chapter 7 discusses issues concerning the process of strengthening families and schools. A bibliography of 130 items is included. (BC)