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Powerful PartnershipsA Teacher's Guide to Engaging Families for Student Success by Scholastic

Beyond the Bake Sale | The New PressCountless studies demonstrate that students with parents actively involved in their education at home and school are more likely to earn higher grades and test scores, enroll in higher-level programs, graduate from high school, and go on to postsecondary education. Beyond the Bake Sale shows how to form these essential partnerships and how to make them work.

A Match on Dry GrassThe persistent failure of public schooling in low-income communities constitutes one of our nation's most pressing civil rights and social justice issues. Many school reformers recognize that poverty, racism, and a lack of power held by these communities undermine children's education and development, but few know what to do about it.

The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each OtherWith the insights she has gleaned from her close and subtle observation of parent-teacher conferences, renowned Harvard University professor Sara...

Engage Every Family: Five Simple Principles / Edition 1Reach beyond theory and engage every family in student successFamily engagement increases student achievement but how do schools connect with families...

Other People’s Children | The New PressWinner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award and Choice Magazine’s Outstanding Academic book award, and voted one of Teacher Magazine’s “great books,” Other People’s Children has sold over 150,000 copies since its original publication. This anniversary edition features a new introduction by Delpit as well as new framing essays by Herbert Kohl and Charles Payne.

Lives in Limbo“My world seems upside down. I have grown up but I feel like I’m moving backward. And I can’t do anything about it.” –Esperanza Over two million of the nation’s eleven million undocumented immigrants have lived in the United States since childhood. Due to a broken immigration system, they grow up to uncertain futures.

A Cord of Three Strands: A New Approach to Parent Engagement in Schools by Soo Hong

New Ways to Engage Parents: Strategies and Tools for Teachers and Leaders, K-12 by Patricia Edwards

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