Resources for
Parent Involvement
Web-based
· Corbett, H. D., & Wilson, B. (2001). Key lessons about the role of parents as educational change agents. In J. Kroll, R. F. Sexton, B. N. Raimondo, H. D. Corbett, & B. Wilson (Eds.), Setting the stage for success: Bringing parents into education reform as advocates for higher student achievement (pp. 9–15). Philadelphia: Pew Charitable Trusts. Available at www.pewtrusts.com/pdf/edu_prichard.pdf
· Efforts by Public K–8 Schools to Involve Parents in Children’s Education: Do School and Parent Reports Agree? (2001). Compares parents’ and educators’ perspectives on how schools involve parents in their children’s education and how parents respond to these opportunities for involvement. This report first uses data from the Parent and Family Involvement in Education/Civic Involvement Survey of the 1996 NHES and the Survey on Family and School Partnerships in Public Schools. nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2001076
· The Family Involvement Network of Educators (FINE) (2005). This site contains a summary of research briefs on family involvement in education. This evidence-based series, called "Family Involvement Makes a Difference", is written for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers and includes ideas that you can use right away in your own work. The first brief in the series, "Family Involvement in Early Childhood Education", synthesizes the latest research on how family involvement contributes to young children's learning and development, see the link below.
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/fine/resources/research/earlychildhood.html
· The Family Involvement Network of Educators (FINE) (2002). Another policy review and idea paper for work with immigrant parents on this same site was written by Golan, S., & Petersen, D. (2002). Promoting involvement of recent immigrant families in their children’s education.. You can find this research project description at www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/fine/resources/research/golan.html
· Responsive Education site. This site describes various methods that have been employed effectively to help schools develop meaningful school parent partnerships and to train parent leaders to promote school reform issues and family involvement activities. www.responsiveeduction.org
Annotated Bibliography: Texts
Lane, K.L. & Beebe-Frankenberger, M. (2004). School-based interventions: The tools you
need to succeed. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
Provides directions and reproducible forms for three tiered interventions including forms for social validity (parent, teacher, student), and treatment integrity. Recommended as an accompanying text for any interventions course.
Best practices in School Psychology-IV (2002). Section: Best Practices in Supporting Parents, Families, and Cultural Considerations
· Chapter 24: BP Working with culturally diverse children and families (Ortiz & Flanagan)
· Chapter 25: BP Increasing cross-cultural competence (Miranda)
· Chapter 26: BP Collaborating with parents of children with disabilities (Fish)
· Chapter 27: BP Facilitating meaningful involvement in educational decision making (Hubbard & Adams)
· Chapter 28: BP Supporting home-school collaboration (Esler, Godber & Christensen)
· Chapter 29: BP Building partnerships with families (Elizalde-Utnick)
· Chapter 30: BP Facilitating collaborative family-teacher routine conferences ( Vickers, Minke, Anderson)
· Chapter 31: BP Behavioral Parent Training (Gimpel & Collett)