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What Every Principal Should Know About School-Community Leadership

By: Jeffrey Glanz

Harness your community's powerful resources to supercharge achievement!

This comprehensive guide outlines proven, practical strategies for effectively launching, implementing, and sustaining mutually beneficial partnerships. It highlights straightforward best practices for: (1) Reaching out to parents, including specific involvement activities; (2) Building community relationships that support school initiatives, plus tips for leveraging the media; and (3) Closing the achievement gap through community resources and reforms. This fourth volume in the seven-part leadership series features:

Initial questionnaire and response analysis
Case study with reflective questions
"What You Should Know About" sections framing each chapter
Self-Assessment resources

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Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412915892
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2005
Page Count: 136
Publication date: November 09, 2005

Price: $30.95

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Harness your community's powerful resources to support achievement!

Every school exists within the broader context of its community. By tapping into the wealth of resources that abound beyond campus grounds, principals can weave a tightly knit safety net that buoys student learning. If the adage "It takes a village to raise a child" is true, then certainly raising schoolwide achievement is largely dependent upon the active involvement of local businesses, organizations, institutions, and parents.

Cultivating strong alliances with community members entails a systemic, goal-centered outreach program-and this comprehensive guide outlines proven, practical strategies for effectively launching, implementing, and sustaining mutually beneficial partnerships. It highlights straightforward best practices for: Reaching out to parents, including specific involvement activities; Building community relationships that support school initiatives, plus tips for leveraging the media; and Closing the achievement gap through community resources and reforms.

This fourth volume in a seven-part leadership series features:

Insightful questionnaire and response analysis
Case study with reflective questions
"What You Should Know About" sections framing each chapter
Self-Assessment resources
"In-basket Simulations" exploring real-life examples

Other titles in this leadership series:

What Every Principal Should Know About Leadership
What Every Principal Should Know About Operational Leadership
What Every Principal Should Know About Strategic Leadership
What Every Principal Should Know About Collaborative Leadership
What Every Principal Should Know About Instructional Leadership
What Every Principal Should Know About Cultural Leadership
What Every Principal Should Know About Ethical and Spiritual Leadership

Author(s)

Jeffrey Glanz

Jeffrey Glanz currently serves as a Senior Fellow at the Institute for University-School Partnership, Director of the Masters Program and the Raine and Stanley Silverstein Chair in Professional Ethics and Values at the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration at Yeshiva University. Prior to coming to YU, Dr. Glanz served as Dean of Graduate Programs and Chair of the Department of Education at Wagner College in Staten Island, New York. He also coordinated the educational leadership program that led to New York State certification as a principal and assistant principal. Prior to arriving at Wagner, he served as executive assistant to the president of Kean University in Union, New Jersey. Dr. Glanz held faculty status as a tenured professor in the Department of Instruction and Educational Leadership at Kean University’s College of Education. He was named Graduate Teacher of the Year in 1999 by the Student Graduate Association and was also that year’s recipient of the Presidential Award for Outstanding Scholarship. He served as a teacher and assistant principal in the New York City public schools. He has conducted numerous workshops and seminars internationally. Dr. Glanz has authored, coauthored, and co-edited 20 books and has many peer-reviewed article publications.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Questionnaire: Before We Get Started…

1. Introduction

Case Study and Reflective Questions

2. Best Practices in Reaching Out to Parents

Learning Together

Empower Parents

Provide Training

Establish Parent Coordinators

Foster Parental Success

Publicize Student Presentations

Solicit Parent and Community Involvement

Develop Parent Involvement Activities

Conclusion

3. Best Practices in Building Community Alliances

Consider Six Types of Involvement

Form a Community Advisory Committee

Undertake Community Building

Plan Together

Develop an After School Program

Involve Parents and Community

Avoid Barriers to Implementation

Become Media Savvy

Become Part of a Professional Development School (PDS) Initiative

Conclusion

4. Using Community Resources and Reforms to Close the Black-White Achievement Gap

School-Community Clinics

Early Childhood Education Centers

After School Programs

Conclusion

Conclusion: Making School-Community Relations a Reality

Resource A: Realities of School-Community Leadership: In-Basket Simulations

Resource B: Assessing Your Role in School-Community Relations

Resource C: An Annotated Bibliography of Best Resources

References

Index

Reviews

"A comprehensive, useful guide. It includes questionnaires and response analysis, a case study with reflective questions, and self-assessment resources."

Curriculum Connections, Fall 2006
School Library Journal

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