It is commonly agreed that engaging parents with their child's learning is positive and has wide-reaching benefits. This book articulates why parental engagement is of value and how it can be achieved with positive results. Beyond the why and how, the book explores what effective parental engagement is, making explicit the link between this and the impact on the learning of the child. To support this, practical, workable solutions and strategies are provided through case studies. The book provides a powerful combination of academic theory supported with quantifiable and qualitative evidence from students, parents and schools, alongside answers provided by those who work with the challenges of this agenda on a daily basis. It will challenge, motivate and inspire understanding through the political agenda, and empower and enable schools to develop their practice.
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Alma Harris is Pro-Director (Leadership) at the Institute of Education, London and Professor of Educational Leadership at the London Centre for Leadership in Learning. Kirstie Andrew-Power is Achievement Networks Coordinator for the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust. Her current role is facilitating networks of schools engaged in the school improvement agenda, leading shared learning opportunities for this through events and conferences, and contributing and writing publications to support this agenda. Dr Janet Goodall is a research fellow at the Institute of Education, University of Warwick
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By W A Bradford
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I found this to be an extremely useful and well-written resource. Of use to leaders in schools, governors and parents' groups who are working with school to establish effective parental engagement and participation. Given the calibre of the authors, it is not surprising that effective-based good practice takes centre stage. It gave me lots of helpful insights and brought a great deal of material into one source. I would recommend this most strongly to anyone who, like me, is trying to help a school to improve the quality of its work with parents
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This book tries hard and is worth a look even if only to back up the importance of parents. That is the good news. Let us take three researchers, a whole bunch of research and some schools where the staff are really trying hard to make busted (mainly YEAR) systems work in the way all schools do. Let us then take on board a whole raft of ideas and present them as drivers, approaches and solutions. For me nearly every approach mentioned falls dangerously short of what is needed to promote learning partnerships and simply reinvents the factory school. If there is any group that fails to understand schools as organisations it is researchers. They simply do not 'get it' but think they do. The book title somehow patronising and presents parents as something less than what they are. Parents do matter and it is for schools to forge the key partnership links to ensure this remains so. However, any school that has Year pastoral care systems will never do this well...remotely well. How a school functions as a learning system is critical. Parent partnership has to be built in to the system not added on. Think customer care as a starter.
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Parental Engagement is the Key
25 Jun 2010
By Mr T
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There is a huge amount of untapped parent-potential in our schools. Parents are the child's first educator and they certainly do matter when it comes to raising student achievement.
This book succinctly puts forward a number of excellent suggestions for improving home-school engagement and provides examples of developed practice with parental engagement in six secondary schools. Whilst the examples don't cover primary schools,the principles and many of the suggestions are equally valuable in the primary setting.
The reflective questions at the end of each chapter are very helpful in focusing the reader on what action they may be able to take in their school.
A very good resource for principals of schools who want their home -school partnership to make a difference to student learning and outcomes.
This book succinctly puts forward a number of excellent suggestions for improving home-school engagement and provides examples of developed practice with parental engagement in six secondary schools. Whilst the examples don't cover primary schools,the principles and many of the suggestions are equally valuable in the primary setting.
The reflective questions at the end of each chapter are very helpful in focusing the reader on what action they may be able to take in their school.
A very good resource for principals of schools who want their home -school partnership to make a difference to student learning and outcomes.
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