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School Community Relations, Under Reform,Used
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Successful Schools and the Community Relationship offers readers an important introduction to a rapidly emerging restoration of national interest in the basic unit of education: the individual school and its surrounding neighborhood. This schoolsite focus has been called The New Localism. This new localism is firmly rooted in the central objective of improving opportunities for student learning and in using the multiple resources of families and neighborhoods to assist in instructional improvement.The two sections in this book explore various sources of learning: the research literature, conceptual perspectives, and a set of illustrative cases, which explore leadership dilemmas that will raise questions, that will spark a dialogue or debate over possible solutions, and that will lead into an examination of the extant research literature and conceptual lenses. The authors purpose for this textbook is threefold. First is to provide a careful review of today s knowledge base in the very complex arena of relationships between schools and their surrounding communities. The second purpose of this book is to provide a readily understandable and professionally useful set of alternative theoretical models and concepts for interpreting and implementing strengthened schoolcommunity relationships. The third purpose is to provide the next generation of educators with key practical insights, tools, and understandings for using and involving the community to improve learning. The text will be used by graduate students in educational policy and administration, and will be an important resource for local school administrators, persons engaged in communitydevelopment activities, policymakers in education, and scholars with an interest in schoolcommunity relations.CONTENTSSECTION I: THE CONTEXT OF SCHOOLCOMMUNITY RELATIONS1. Leadership Issues, Constraints, and Challenges in Community Engagement.2. Evolving Understandings of the Community Relationship.3. Models and Theories of the Community Context.4. Changing Expectations for Leadership in the SchoolCommunity Relationship.5. Current Policy Issues in the Community Relationship.SECTION II: THE PRACTICE OF IMPROVING COMMUNITY RELATIONS6. Leading and Guiding Parent Involvement.7. Using Communities as Instructional Resources.8. Improving SchoolCommunity Relations Through Children's Services Coordination.9. Generating Capacity for Learning in the Community Relationship.10. Building Trust and Generating Social Capital.11. Leading the Community Relationship at the District Level.
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