Creating Welcoming Schools

A Practical Guide to Home-School Partnerships With Diverse Families

JoBeth Allen

This engaging, rich resource is designed for teachers, parents, and administrators in diverse schools or districts who know there is no quick fix for building lasting partnerships among families, schools, and communities. Going far beyond traditional “parent involvement programs,” this essential volume

Offers ideas on how teachers and parents together can explore their rich and diverse cultural perspectives through storytelling and cultural memoir

Shows how to establish and sustain genuine dialogue through school conferences, open houses, and classroom projects

Suggests ways families, schools, and communities can collaborate for democratic schools and a more democratic society

Includes “Action Opportunities” throughout for readers to actively engage with the ideas and make them their own

Links home–school partnerships with research demonstrating that building respectful and trusting relationships among families, schools, and communities leads to increased student achievement

© 2007 | 192 pp.
IRA stock no. 9219
Copublished with Teachers College Press