“A Recipe for Home Visits: 1 Afternoon, 2 Neighborhoods, 4 Families & Frijoles”
A Recipe for Home Visits: 1 Afternoon, 2 Neighborhoods, 4 Families & Frijoles is a nice post by Jessica Cuthbertson. Here’s an excerpt: With the help of a multilingual colleague, a teacher workday, and a few phone calls, we visited four families in two different neighborhoods over the course of an afternoon. We intentionally selected families who were unable to make the last round of parent/te
“Schools central to Promise Zone anti-poverty strategy”
Schools central to Promise Zone anti-poverty strategy is a good overview written up at Ed Source. It also reflects the questions I have about how seriously the role of parent – and community — engagement has played — both at the original Harlem Children’s Zone and in the expansion program. As I’ve written before (you can see those posts in My Best Posts On The Harlem Children’s Zone & Other “P
3-29-14 Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement"
Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement":“Questioning Parental Involvement”Questioning Parental Involvement is an excellent short post by Walt Gardner at Education Week. He provides some very good critiques of a new book and research about parent involvement that I posted about a few days ago — New Book & Research On Parent Involvement, & It’s Potentially V