Diverse Partnerships for Student Success: Strategies and Tools to Help School Leaders

By Larry E. Decker, Pamela M. Brown, Virginia A. Decker

Book Overview

Diverse Partnerships for Student Success is based on the deep conviction that schools function best in collaboration with the larger community. It offers strategies and tolls to help educational leaders create successful partnerships in a socioeconomically and culturally diverse society and presents information on how to identify relevant demographic trends to address the educational, cultural, vocational, and recreational needs of students and citizens.

Grounded in ISLLC and NCATE standards, the book offers comprehensive, research-based information; concrete program ideas; and numerous Internet sites for additional help in creating and sustaining family and community engagement. It presents strategies for involving people-individually and collectively-in agencies, businesses, and organizations to mobilize the resources of the entire community. Diverse Partnerships for Student Success will assist educational and community leaders in developing, implementing, and sustaining a comprehensive partnership system that helps all children succeed academically.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578865395
• ISBN13: 9781578865390
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: R & L Education
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.5"