In Creating Welcoming Schools: A Practical Guide to Home-School Partnerships with Diverse Families, JoBeth Allen, a UGA professor of language and literacy education, details how schools and diverse families throughout the country have formed partnerships that support and enhance student learning.
The book is designed for teachers who care deeply about students and welcome diverse families as partners, for parents who want to be active partners in educating their children and for administrators in diverse schools or districts who know there is no quick fix for building lasting partnerships among families, schools and the community.
Going far beyond traditional parent involvement programs, the volume offers ways teachers and parents can explore diverse cultural perspectives through storytelling; shows how to establish and sustain dialogue at school conferences, open houses and through classroom projects such as home–school journals; suggests ways families, schools and communities can collaborate, and much more.