Research on School, Family,and

Community Partnerships’

EDE 9821 Community Relations

Faculty: Ricahrd Walter, Ph.D.

Muhammad Riaz

Dcember 15, 2013

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpaQTeiTZ7Y

Ideas for Research on School, Family,and

Community Partnerships’

Schools

CommunitiesFamilies

Families

Communities

Seven Principles to Help

Researchers Think in New WaysSchool, family, community partnership:

• share responsibility for students’ learning and development

• is a multidimensional Concept

• is an essential component of school and classroom organization

• require multilevel leadership

• must include a focus on increasing student learning and

development

• are about equity

• must continue to improve

School, family, and community partnerships is a better

terms than parental involvement to recognize that

parents, educators, and others in the community share

responsibility for students’ learning and development

• Students learn more when parents, educators and

others in community work together to guide and

support students learning and development( Epstein,

1987,2001)

• “Professional community” may mange their schools

differently from administrators who view schools as full

“learning communities”( Epstein,2001)

School, Family, and Community Partnerships

is a Multidimensional Concept

Collaborating

With

Community

Decision

Making

Learning

At

Home

Volunteering

Communicating

Parenting

Successful Partnerships

A program of School, family, and community

partnerships is an essential component of

school and classroom organization

• Leadership

• Teamwork

• Action plan

• Implementation of plan

• Funding

• Collegial support

• Evaluation

• Networking

Eight essential “elements” fro effective school program:

A program of School, family, and community

partnerships require multilevel leadership.

Multilevel leadership supports the view that family and

community involvements is part of organization, as

district leaders help coordinate and facilitate the smooth

operation of all school with district

The quality of district partnership programs was affected

by the leaders’ years of experience and time spent on

partnerships.

A program of School, family, and community partnerships must

include a focus on increasing student learning and development

Family and community involvements affects not only students

achievement, but also students health, attitude, and

behaviors(Epstein 2001; Hill and Craft, 2003)

Types of involvement

Subject specific goals for Students

The challenge of Conducting Studies of interventions

The Challenges of Isolating effects of partnerships

The challenges of explaining negative results

All program of School, family, and community

partnerships are about equity

Parents involvement programs must include all families,

Program quality and the actions taken at home are as or

more important than family background variables such

as face, ethnicity, social class, marital status, mother’s

education or work status,

Methods of research on School, family, and

community partnerships must continue to

improve

Moving from exploratory and descriptive studies to confirmatory and

target evaluation

• Experiments and Matched examples

• Well- specified multivariate models

• Multilevel analyses

• Small in-depth studies

Conclusion

New ways about the structures and processes of family

and community involvements that will help educators,

parents, and community partners work more

systemically, organizationally, and collaboratively to

support students. It will also help researchers improve

policy and practice.