Home, School, And Community Collaboration: Culturally Responsive Family Engagement Paperback 3

Kathy Beth Grant

Filled with practical suggestions and reflective opportunities, Home, School, and Community Collaboration, Third Edition uses the culturally responsive family support model as a framework to prepare teachers to work with diverse families. This text includes contributions from 22 experts in the field, offering a wide range of perspectives on issues of family involvement that today's teachers are likely to encounter. Authors Kathy B. Grant and Julie A. Ray offer the latest research on family demographics, including those with children who have special needs. Numerous real-life vignettes and case studies have been incorporated throughout the text to show readers the practical application of culturally responsive family engagement.

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English

Sage Publications Inc

1 December 2015

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Kathy B. Grant, EdD, is an associate professor of Curriculum and Instruction at SUNY Plattsburgh's School of Education. She taught undergraduate courses in family involvement, as well as graduate courses in educational psychology and child development. She also worked as a home-school coordinator through Title 1 in the Missoula School District in Missoula, Montana. During her six years in this position, she oversaw the development of family resource centers at the elementary and middle school levels, worked with family outreach specialists and social workers, established parent libraries, and conducted home visits. As home-school coordinator, she helped develop an Even Start program serving children and parents. Having taught second, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grades, as well as high school, she has worked collaboratively with families for more than 30 years. In 2014 in collaboration with two rural upstate New York school districts, she consulted on establishment of two elementary family resource centers. These two centers will be part of a larger SUNY clinical field experience effort to prepare teacher candidates to authentically work with families. Julie A. Ray (Ph.D., University of Missouri, Columbia) is a professor of Education and Department Chairperson at Southeast Missouri State University. She has been in the field of early childhood and elementary education for over 31 years. As a primary grades teacher and librarian, she worked hard to develop positive relationships with the families of her students. As a teacher educator in Early Childhood Education at two different four-year universities, she has taught both undergraduate and graduate level courses in family engagement, as well as done numerous presentations and publications on collaborating with diverse families.

Julie A. Ray

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I think this text is one of the best for this course. It presents relevant information in a readable and understandable format for the students. -- Sharon S. Carter "This text combines an awareness of families, diversity, and theory with the hands on practice and the realities of teaching. It presents complex concepts in approachable and ways that students can easily understand and utilize in their work with children and families." -- Mary Geisser "The Tables with suggestions for practice are excellent. The "in the classroom" vignettes show that teachers in the real world make mistakes; that it's better to try new things than simply maintain the status quo." -- B.L. Fish "The activities sprinkled throughout will lead to dynamic class dialogues, self-reflection, and personal growth." -- Shawn DiNarda Watters "Practicality and Readability. The authors did a fine job in making content accessible to readers and making a connection to practice." -- Dennis J. Kirchen