Parent Engagement
Parent Engagement
Parent Engagement
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This school website supports community outreach and helps tamilies
establish home environments to support their children as students.
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provide valuable feedback to teachers, administration and staff on parents' perspectives on the school. The information is twoway between the school and families to build
strong partnerships.
community but also the broader area influenced by our school community, are posted
on the website to provide all students the
opportunity to give back to the school and
local community. The community service
coordinator maintains sign-up sheets to inform other organizations of community service volunteers scheduled for specific events.
As a public website, all community members are encouraged to interact with the
school electronically through a "contact us"
link.
1, Publication Title: Leadership; 2. Pubiication No.: 0282-740 3. Fiiing Date: September 20, 2012; 4. issue Frequency: Sept./
Oct., Nov./Dec, Jan./Feb., March/April, May/
June; 5. No. of Issues Publisiied Annuaiiy:
5; 6. Annual Subscription: $60.00; 7. Location of i(nown office of pubiication: 1029
J St. Suite 500, Sacramento, CA 95814; 8.
Gnerai Business Office of Publisber: 1575
Bayshore Highway, Burlingame, CA 94010; 9.
STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP,
iVIANAGEMENTAND CiRCULATiON
References
Epstein, Joyce L. (2001). School, family, and
community Partnerships: Preparing educators and improving schools. Boulder,
CO: Westview Press.
port critical services, with the goal of spending increased amounts of their time on the
ultimate goal - technology-enhanced instruction and student learning.
A time of optimism
For these three districts in Silicon Valley,
it's a good time. A time of expanding options and optimism, a time of seeing technology impact learning in natural, welcome
ways. Each district faces its challenges. Some
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themes are similar, others unique to the setting. Yet with each, there is an energy, a passion, and a belief that the more the conversation is about learning, the more technology
finally has found its place.
Editor's note: Randy Phelps is now with the
Eastside Union School District.
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