Targeted Resources
Recommendation 12—Partnerships
These online and print resources are organized to serve as catalysts for discussion and professional collaboration targeted to the topic of partnerships.
Related Links
- ARCHES, (Outside Source), Alliance for Regional Collaboration to Heighten Educational Success.
- Basic (and Sometimes Surprising) Facts about the U.S. Education System, (PDF; Outside Source), Nancy Kober for the Center on Education Policy.
- Building Alliances, Building Families, (PDF; Outside Source) Herb Rotchford, Middle Ground, Vol. 6, No. 1 (August 2002).
- Building a Strong Community Partnership; When it comes to creating effective school-family-community partnerships, take some advice from vete, (PDF; Outside Source), a sidebar in the article, Carl Vogel in District Administration, June 2006.
- California Academic Partnership Program (CAPP), (Outside Source) supports “cooperative efforts to improve the academic quality of public secondary schools with the objective of improving the preparation of all students for college.”
- California Business for Education Excellence, (Outside Source), a sponsor of Educational Results Partnership, (Outside Source).
- California Parent Center, (Outside Source), Department of Child and Family Development, San Diego State University Foundation.
- Characteristics of Middle Grade Students, Caught in the Middle, 144-148.
- Content Standards, California Department of Education.
- Curriculum Frameworks & Instructional Materials, California Department of Education.
- Even Start Family Literacy Program. The purpose of the William F. Goodling Even Start program is to break the cycle of poverty and low literacy by improving the academic achievement of parents and their young children.
- Family and Community Partnership Resources, (Outside Source) from the Coalition for Essential Schools.
- Families & Schools Together, (Outside Source), WCER, Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
- Focus on Families! How to Build and Support Family-Centered Practices in After School Programs, (Outside Source).
Harvard Family Research Project.
- Family Connection, (Outside Source), Free articles for parent newsletters from the National Middle School Association’s.
- Gifted students connect online with colleges, (Outside Source), Post-Gazette.com, August 19, 2005.
- Grandparents Helping in the Classroom, (Outside Source), Christian Science Monitor (March 9, 2006)
- Guidelines for Family-Friendly Schools—Self-Assessment, (PDF; Outside Source) (prepared by the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory).
- Helpful Sites for Parents, (Outside Source), Montgomery Middle School, Sweetwater Union High School District.
- “How to Run Successful Parent-Team Conferences—Tips by the Dozen for Middle-Level Educators” (PDF; Outside Source) Howard M. Miller, Middle Matters (Fall 1998).
- Inside the Teenage Brain, (Outside Source) PBS online interview with Deborah Yergelun-Todd, 2002.
- Mentoring, California Department of Education.
- NCLB explained to Spanish-speaking parents, (Outside Source), U.S. Department of Education site.
- New Paradigms for Parental Involvement, (PDF; Outside Source), Education Update, Vol. 47, No. 3, March 2005.
- Parent/Guardian Guide to the 2009 STAR Testing Program, (PDF, Outside Source), Standardized Testing and Reporting Program.
- Parent Handbook for Mathematics, (DOC; 207KB; 28pp.), California Department of Education.
- Parent involvement, (Outside Source), SchoolsMovingUp—a WestEd initiative.
- Parent tips for Back to School, California Department of Education Press Release.
- Parental Involvement in School Safety: What Every Parent Should Know; What Every Parent Should Say, (PDF; Outside Source). Center for the Prevention of School Violence.
- Parental Involvement and Secondary School Student Educational Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis (Outside Source), William Jeynes, Harvard Family Research Project, The Evaluation Exchange, Vol. X, No. 4 (Winter 2004/2005), 6.
- Reaching Out to Diverse Populations—What Can Schools Do to Foster Family-School Connections? (PDF; Outside Source) Chris Ferguson. Austin, Tex.: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL), National Center for Family and Community Connections with Schools, September 2005, 1.
- Reading Aloud to Children of All Ages, Original Taking Center Stage, Appendix 10-B.
- Reading is Fundamental, (Outside Source), Parent’s and grandparent’s page.
- Reading Rockets, (Outside Source)—Reading Rockets is an educational initiative of WETA (Outside Source), the public television and radio station in the nation’s capital, and is funded by a major grant from the U.S. Department of Education (Outside Source), Office of Special Education Programs.
- Teacher Learning in a School-University Partnership: Exploring the Role of Social Trust and Teaching Efficacy Beliefs, (Outside Source), Jennifer L. Fisler and William A. Firestone, Teachers College Record, Vol. 108, No. 6 (2006), 1155-1185.
- Television Viewing—Guidelines for the Middle Grades, Caught in the Middle, 31.
- The Role of Parents in Helping to Create Safe, Violence-Free Middle Schools, Original Taking Center Stage, Appendix 13-G.
- Tip Sheet: Linking a School-Family Compact to Learning, (PDF; Outside Source), Anne T. Henderson, Community Involvement Program, Annenberg Institute for School Reform, 2006.
- Work With Parents & The Community, Parents & Families: Editor's Picks , (Outside Source), U.S. Department of Education.
Note: Taking Center Stage—Act II (TCSII) includes references and links to third party resources (outside links) that middle grades educators and stakeholders may find thought provoking and a catalyst for discussion and professional collaboration in their quest to improve their schools. Specific references or links by the California Department of Education in TCSII to third party resources, products, processes, or services, or the presence of trade names, trademarks, or other vendor identifiers, do not constitute assessment or imply endorsement by the Middle Grades Improvement Office or the California Department of Education (CDE).
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