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PARTNERSHIPS
FAMILY-SCHOOL-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
• Family-school-community partnerships are a shared
responsibility and reciprocal process whereby schools and
other community agencies and organizations engage
families in meaningful and culturally appropriate ways,
and families take initiative to actively support their
children’s development and learning.
• Schools and community organizations also make efforts to
listen to parents, support them, and ensure that they have
the tools to be active partners in their children’s school
experience.
“Partnerships are essential for helping
students achieve at their maximum
potential and while parent and
community involvement has always
been a cornerstone of public schools,
greater recognition and support of
these collaborative efforts is needed.”
COMPONENTS
FAMILY-SCHOOL-COMMUNITY
PARTNERSHIPS
COMPONENTS OF FAMILY-SCHOOL-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
1. Parenting
activities are conducted to help families
strengthen parenting skills, understand child
and adolescent development, and set home
conditions to support learning at each school
level. Type 1 activities also enable families to
provide information to schools so that educators
understand families' backgrounds, cultures, and
goals for their children.
COMPONENTS OF FAMILY-SCHOOL-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
2. Communicating
activities increase school-to-home and home-
to-school communications about school
programs and student progress through
notices, memos, conferences, report cards,
newsletters, telephone calls, e-mail and
computerized messages, the Internet, open
houses, and other traditional and innovative
communications.
COMPONENTS OF FAMILY-SCHOOL-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
3. Volunteering
activities are designed to improve
recruitment, training, and schedules to
involve parents and others as volunteers
and as audiences at the school or in other
locations to support students and school
programs.
COMPONENTS OF FAMILY-SCHOOL-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
4. Learning at Home
activities involve families with their children in
academic learning activities at home that are
coordinated with students' classwork and that
contribute to student success in school. These
include interactive homework, goal-setting for
academic subjects, and other curricular-linked
activities and decisions about courses and
programs.
COMPONENTS OF FAMILY-SCHOOL-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
5. Decision-Making
activities include families in developing schools'
mission statements and in designing, reviewing,
and improving school policies that affect
children and families. Family members become
active participants on school improvement
teams, committees, PTA/PTO or other parent
organizations, Title I and other councils, and
advocacy groups.
COMPONENTS OF FAMILY-SCHOOL-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS