Involving Latino Families in Schools: Raising Student Achievement Through Home-School Partnerships

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Title

Involving Latino Families in Schools: Raising Student Achievement Through Home-School Partnerships

Abstract/Description

Raise school attendance, reduce dropout rates, and improve academic performance of Latino students!

Often marginalized by poverty, linguistic isolation, or prejudice, Latino students face many academic obstacles. And while research has shown that parental involvement plays a key role in academic achievement, most schools have failed to modify their parent involvement programs to address social and cultural realities of Latino families.

Involving Latino Families in Schools provides tools and strategies for including Latino parents in developing sustained academic improvement. Sharing numerous first person success stories, author Concha Delgado Gaitan stresses three conditions of increased parental participation: connecting to families, sharing information with parents, and supporting continued parental involvement.

Offering easily applied techniques for cultivating communication, this practical handbook examines
- Latino families and their educational aspirations for their children
- The communication systems needed between schools and Latino families
- How Latino families can assist their children at home
- Techniques to foster Latino parent involvement
- How to organize schoolwide parent involvement programs

Through suggested activities, case examples, and vignettes, the author provides insights and instruction for planning, designing, and implementing parental participation programs that enhance the classroom curriculum and effectively engage Latino students.

Designed primarily for elementary and secondary school principals and teachers, this innovative text is also an indispensable resource for district-level administrators.

Author/creator

Delgado Gaitan, Concha

Date

2004

Publisher

Corwin Press

Resource type

en Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

en Published Text

Scholarship genre

en Textbook

IRE Approach/Concept

Home-School Partnership

Language

en

Open access/full-text available

en No

Peer reviewed

en No

ISBN

978-1-4833-6030-0

URL

Official Publisher's Webpage (Corwin Press)

Citation

Gaitan, C. D. (2004). Involving Latino Families in Schools: Raising Student Achievement Through Home-School Partnerships. Corwin Press.

Cited in

Community-Based Partnerships: Advancing Epistemic Rights through Improvement Research

Equity and Improvement: Engaging Communities in Educational Research

Item sets

Handbook Chapter 9 Citations

OB Citations - Equity and Improvement: Engaging Communities in Educational Research

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