Sentences with phrase «beyond bake sales»

Beyond bake sales: New National PTA president wants to make organization more inclusive Seattle Times: Poulsbo resident Laura Bay was installed as president of the National PTA earlier this month.

We scoured the country for fun, creative fundraisers that go beyond the bake sale — and are still a relative breeze to pull off.

While Jean C. Joachim's book, Beyond the Bake Sale: The Ultimate School Fund - Raising Book, is written as a guide for parents, it also is a good manual for principals.

In her book, Beyond the Bake Sale: The Ultimate School Fund - Raising Book, Joachim provides outlines for organizing and running high - yield projects, such as a pledge drive, a flea market, a street fair, a haunted house, and pizza - and - movie nights.

Instead, the author of Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family / School Partnerships, says open houses should be opportunities to share with families specific grade - level learning goals that have been identified for students.

They will be reading Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family / School Partnerships to inspire conversations on home - school partnerships.

Beyond the Bake Sale: Parents Can Make the Difference in Countless Ways Kevin Walker, the founder of Project Appleseed, has created a list of 37 different ways parents can help.

«Parental advisory committees were wiped out overnight,» said Anne Henderson, senior fellow with the Community Involvement Program at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform and coauthor of Beyond the Bake Sale.

«There seems to be a disconnect between parental involvement and achievement,» said HGSE lecturer Karen Mapp, coauthor of Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family - School Partnerships.

As she writes in Beyond the Bake Sale, her first book on family — school partnerships, many teachers «tend to be more comfortable with helping families to be involved with their children at home than with engaging families in their classrooms and school buildings.»

Beyond the Bake Sale: A Guide to Phenomenal Fund - Raising Looking to marshal your parent volunteers into an effective fund - raising team?

Jean C. Joachim's book, Beyond the Bake Sale, offers a manual for principals.

We read Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family / school Partnerships as a guide for our conversations on home - school partnerships.

The session draws on Dr. Mapp's acclaimed book, Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family - School Partnerships.

Anne T. Henderson, author of the best - selling book Beyond the Bake Sale, talks about school culture and parents.

The session will draw on Dr. Mapp's acclaimed book, Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family - School Partnerships.

She is the author and co-author of several articles and books about the role of families and community members in the work of student achievement and school improvement including: A New Wave Of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family and Community Connections on Student Achievement (2002); «Having Their Say: Parents Describe How and Why They are Engaged in Their Children's Learning» (2003); Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family - School Partnerships (2010); «Debunking the Myth of the Hard to Reach Parent» (2010); «Title I and Parent Involvement: Lessons from the Past, Recommendations for the Future» (2011); and A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform (2011).

Anne T. Henderson, Karen L. Mapp, Vivian R. Johnson, and Don Davies, Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family - School Partnerships, (The New Press, 2007)

Anne T. Henderson, Karen L. Mapp, Vivian R. Johnson, and Don Davies, Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family - School Partnerships (New York: New Press, 2007).

Beyond the Bake Sale shows how to form these essential partnerships and how to make them work.

Written with candor, clarity, and humor, Beyond the Bake Sale is essential reading for teachers, parents on the front lines in public schools, and administrators and policy makers at all levels.

Packed with tips from principals and teachers, checklists, and an invaluable resource section, Beyond the Bake Sale reveals how to build strong collaborative relationships and offers practical advice for improving interactions between parents and teachers, from insuring that PTA groups are constructive and inclusive to navigating the complex issues surrounding diversity in the classroom.

Beyond the Bake Sale; The Essential Guide to Family - School Partnerships by Anne T. Henderson, Karen L. Mapp, Vivian R. Johnson, and Don Davies.

She is the author of numerous publications, such as Beyond the Bake Sale: An Educator's Guide for Working with Parents and A New Generation of Evidence: The Family is Critical to Student Achievement.

Dr. Mapp is the author and co-author of several articles and books about the role of families and community members in the work of student achievement and school improvement including: A New Wave Of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family and Community Connections on Student Achievement (2002); «Having Their Say: Parents Describe How and Why They are Engaged in Their Children's Learning» (2003); Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family - School Partnerships (2010); «Debunking the Myth of the Hard to Reach Parent» (2010); «Title I and Parent Involvement: Lessons from the Past, Recommendations for the Future» (2011); and A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform (2011).

Not exact matches

Looking beyond the traditional notion of the PTA bake sale, Warren wants to see parent and community groups become involved in leadership positions and decision - making within schools and in district policy.

Principals need to engage teachers and other staff members in similar discussions, focused especially on ways to involve parents in roles beyond the superficial tasks often allocated to them (e.g., coordinating social events, fundraising through bake sales).

Site - based management provides a context for substantive parent involvement that goes beyond traditional bake sales and fund - raising.