What Successful Schools Do to Involve Families by Neal A Glasgow

What Successful Schools Do to Involve Families by Neal A Glasgow

Student's learn best when they are supported by a community that values education. Based on solid educational research, this book offers teachers and administrators practical strategies for forming effective partnerships with every type of family group.

“Partnering with parents is a missing link in efforts to improve student achievementThis book offers teachers specific and practical suggestions to capitalize on this extraordinary untapped resource.” -- David Freitas, Professor of Education

Neal A. Glasgow′s experience includes serving as a secondary school science and art teacher both in California and New York, as a university biotechnology teaching laboratory director and laboratory technician, and as an educational consultant and frequent speaker on many educational topics. He is the author or coauthor of ten books on educational topics: What Successful Schools Do to Involve Families: Fifty Research-Based Strategies for Teachers and Administrators (2008), What Successful Literacy Teachers Do: 70 Research-Based Strategies for Teachers, Reading Coaches, and Instructional Planners (2007), What Successful Teachers Do in Diverse Classrooms: 71 Research-Based Strategies for New and Veteran Teachers (2006); What Successful Teachers Do in Inclusive Classrooms: 60 Research-Based Strategies That Help Special Learners (2005); What Successful Mentors Do: 81 Researched-Based Strategies for New Teacher Induction, Training, and Support (2004); What Successful Teachers Do: 91 Research-Based Strategies for New and Veteran Teachers (2003); Tips for Science Teachers: Research-Based Strategies to Help Students Learn (2001); New Curriculum for New Times: A Guide to Student-Centered, Problem-Based Learning (1997); Doing Science: Innovative Curriculum Beyond the Textbook for the Life Sciences (1997); and Taking the Classroom to the Community: A Guidebook (1996).   Paula Jameson Whitney has been an educator for 21 years. During that time, she has been a middle school teacher of language arts, ESL, and social science; middle school vice principal; elementary school principal; and central office director of learning support and categorical programs. Her master’s of education is in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, and her expertise is in instructional practices for English learners, gifted and talented students, and leadership strategies for school improvement.

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ISBN 13	9781412956048
ISBN 10	1412956048
Title	What Successful Schools Do to Involve Families
Author	Neal A Glasgow
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	SAGE Publications Inc
Year published	2009-02-04
Number of pages	216
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