School Community Relations

I am beginning my 3rd week of School Community Relations. So I will work on catching up on what I've learned in the first two weeks of this course.

According to Joyce L. Epstein, Ph.D., there are six types of of involvement. 

• Type 1
• Parenting
• Help all families establish home environments to support children as students,

• Type 2
• Communicating
• Design effective forms of school-to-home and home-to-school communications about school programs.

• Type 3
• Volunteering
• Recruit and organize parent help and support.

• Type 4
• Learning at Home
• Provide information and ideas to families about how to help students at home with homework and other curriculum-related activities, decisions, and planning.

• Type 5
• Decision Making
• Include parents in school decisions, developing parent leaders and representatives.

• Type 6
• Collaborating with Community
• Identify and integrate resources and services from the community to strengthen school programs, family practices, and student learning and development.

For additional elaboration on each of these types of involvement please click on the link below.

http://www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000/sixtypes.htm