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Building Successful Partnerships: A Guide for Developing Parent and Family Involvement Programs discusses why parent and school partnerships are necessary and provides schools with methods of increasing parent involvement.

Author(s): Comer, J. P., & National PTA
Publication Date: 2000
Price: 18.95
Contact Information:

National Educational Service
Bloomington, IN
(888)763-9045 or (812)336-7700
Fax (812) 336-7790
http://www.nesonline.com/res/bsp.html

Parents Assuring Student Success (PASS) is geared toward teaching parents effective study skills, as well as providing parents with tools to assist them in teaching and reinforcing study habits at home.

Author(s): Ban J.
Publication Date: 1999
Price: 24.95
Contact Information:

National Educational Service
Bloomington, IN
(888)763-9045 or (812)336-7700
Fax: (812) 336-7790
http://www.nesonline.com/res/assuring.html

Partners Toward Achievement is a set of two 30-minute videotapes that provides teachers with practical strategies and approaches that they can use to reach parents and get them actively involved in their children's success in school.

Author(s): National Educational Service
Price: 139.00
Contact Information:

National Educational Service
Bloomington, IN
(888)763-9045 or (812)336-7700
Fax: (812) 336-7790
http://www.nesonline.com/res/partners.html

The Child Development Project publishes Homeside Activities a seven book set of activities for grades K-6. The activities are designed to give teachers and parents a simple way to build partnerships around children.
Contact Information:

Child Development Project
Development Studies Center
2000 Embarcadero, Suite 305
Oakland, CA 94606

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Workshops

The National Educational Service offers a variety of workshops that provide strategies for getting parents more involved with the school. These include:

Success in School through Parental Involvement. Dr. Hillery Mosinger's 1-2 day workshop provides strategies for building a more cooperative teacher-parent partnership, increasing teacher-parent conferencing skills, and increasing parent effectiveness as volunteers at school and as teachers at home.

Parents as Partners. Lawrence Mazin's 1 day workshop provides training in challenging and empowering parents to enjoy responsibility, as well as showing parents how to pinpoint the warning signs that may indicate that their child needs help. It also provides school personnel with techniques that will help them deal with difficult parents.

Parent Talk: What it Really Means. Chick Moorman's 1 day workshop helps parents learn effective ways of talking to children, as well as provides strategies for dealing with daily situations that face all parents.

For further information contact:
National Educational Service
1252 Loesch Road
Bloomington, IN 47404-9107
(800) 733-6786
fax: (812)336-7790
http://www.nesonline.com/pdo/parentsonside.html

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Online Resources

Partnership for Family Involvement in Education provides resources and supports to organizations and companies interested in building a coalition between schools and their communities.

Contact Information: U.S. Department of Education
600 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202
(800)USA-LEARN
http://pfie.ed.gov/

Family Involvement in Children's Education: Successful Local Approaches. An Idea Book offers descriptions of schools and communities who overcame key barriers such as finding time, increasing their information about each other, bridging school-family differences, improving schools, and tapping external supports to strengthen school-family partnerships.

Contact Information: online version: http://www.ed.gov/pubs/FamInvolve/
To order: 877-4ED-PUBS,
Fax: (301) 470-1244
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/edpubs.html

Team Up For Kids!! How Schools Can Support Family Involvement gives strategies for encouraging parent involvement.

Author(s): Partnership for Family Involvement in Education
Contact Information:

Online version: http://www.ed.gov/pubs/PFIE/schools.html
To order: 877-4ED-PUBS,
Fax: (301) 470-1244
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/edpubs.html

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