Anne T. Henderson and Karen L. Mapp, A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community
Connections on Student Achievement (Austin, TX: National Center for Family & Community Connections with Schools Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, 2002); Joyce Epstein, School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators and Improving Schools (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001).
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).
They also recommend working with families in ongoing, collaborative goal setting for children.Anne T. Henderson and Karen L. Mapp, A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community
Connections on Student Achievement (Austin, TX: National Center for Family & Community Connections with Schools Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, 2002); Linda Halgunseth et.al., «Family Engagement, Diverse Families, and Early Childhood Education Programs: An Integrated Review of the Literature,» National Association for the Education of Young Children, 2009.
A new wave of evidence: The impact of school, family and community
connections on student achievement (Research Synthesis).
«A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community
Connections on Student Achievement» (Annual Synthesis, Southwest Educational Development Laboratory), 241.
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).
A new wave of evidence: The impact of school, family, and community
connections on student achievement.
Anne T. Henderson and Karen L. Mapp, A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community
Connections on Student Achievement (Austin, TX: National Center for Family & Community Connections with Schools Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, 2002); Joyce Epstein, School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators and Improving Schools (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001).
She co-authored with Anne Henderson A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family and Community
Connections on Student Achievement, published by the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (2002).
In «A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community
Connections on Student Achievement,» published in 2002 by the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, Anne T. Henderson and Karen Mapp reviewed years of research on parent involvement, and their conclusions are unequivocal: When parents are involved in school, students of all backgrounds and income levels do better.
A new wave of evidence: the impact of school, family and community
connections on student achievement.
Not exact matches
The Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors project is aimed to measurably enhance
student STEM engagement and
achievement in selected school districts via professional development for teachers consisting of: (1) STEM Professional Development in astrophysics and planetary science delivered via webinars & in - person workshops; (2) a week - long STEM immersion experience at NASA's science research aircraft facility in Palmdale, California, including participation in research flights
on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA); (3) follow - through involving continuing webinars fostering reflection and
connections with astrophysics & planetary science subject matter experts.
The Palisades Cyber Academy launched this year, driven by a demand for e-learning options, an increased focus
on global
connections, fiscal responsibility, and a desire to enact change that will impact
student achievement.
But today's school leaders understand that a strong home - school
connection can have a direct impact
on student achievement, so they have created many new and fun ways to forge a strong relationship between parents and teachers during the opening weeks of the new school year.
Since it is possible that
student achievement is higher whenever pay schedules are flexible, regardless of the
connection to teacher classroom effectiveness, I estimated the impact of each of these three sets of factors
on math
achievement.
The second step uses the
connection between past Catholicism and the contemporary size of the private sector to estimate the impact of competition
on student achievement.
Like the Howley and Bickel studies linking small schools to reducing the impact of poverty
on student achievement, the Chicago study also found the
connection.
In the summer of 2000, perfectly timed to shape the election debate over education reform, came a new RAND study that claimed to contradict the conventional research wisdom
on the
connection between school expenditures and class size
on the one hand and
student achievement on the other.
After exploring some different ways of measuring segregation, Rivkin also looks at data
on the
connection between desegregation and
student achievement.
He has presented internationally
on research - based strategies and techniques with proven
connections to increased
student achievement and has published numerous articles and books, including Advancing Differentiation: Thinking and Learning for the 21st Century and Self - Regulation in the Classroom: Helping
Students Learn How to Learn.
This calendar is an organizational tool for the leadership team and staff, captures the work that supports
student achievement efforts and teacher growth, and highlights meaningful
connections to keep the focus
on teaching and learning.
That allows teachers to spend more classroom time
on academics but the
connection to
student achievement can often be indirect.
Dr. Marzano makes the
connection between growing teacher practice and the impact
on student achievement that is highly probable when teachers use specific strategies in the correct lesson segment, with a specific group of
students.
A 2012 article titled «Physical Activity Strategies for Improved Cognition: The mind / body
connection,» referenced a study
on Australian elementary
students that found «across age and sex, academic ratings were significantly correlated with measures of physical activity» and that «it can be concluded that daily quality physical education appears to increase the rate of learning and is positively related to academic
achievement.»
During his time as superintendent, McClure led a school revitalization process that effectively improved
student achievement by turning around all the schools in his district from School Improvement Status to successful schools that focus
on teaching standards that are relevant to
students and have a real - world
connection.
This study, produced by the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning at WestEd, explores the
connection between mathematics
achievement in middle school and high school to better understand the degree to which
students stay
on the path toward postsecondary STEM study and, if
students veer off the trajectory, to better understand when and why.
However, the
connections manifested at lower levels than other critical factors influencing teachers» decisions to remain in a school, including the percentage of teachers
on emergency credentials,
student poverty levels, school size, and school designation levels for
student achievement.
Project RED was established by three organizations, The Greaves Group, The Hayes
Connection and One - to - One Institute, and began with a research project aimed at addressing two major issues in U.S. education: improving
student achievement and evaluating the total financial impact of technology
on state budgets.
The goal was to create a film
on the changing role of school leadership that would engage a national audience; look at
on - the - ground examples of leadership that results in improving schools and raising
student achievement; and convey the web of
connections between principal leaders and
students, teachers, district supervisors, and school system executive officers.
In this session with Mesa Public Schools» programs and experience being the backdrop, best practices and learnings about the powerful impact of family and cultural
connections on student engagement,
achievement and personal success will be explored.
This question immediately creates a problem in that there is no consensus
on what is meant by
student achievement (see Kohn, 2001), which makes the determination of the effect of computer technologies upon this variable a tenuous
connection at best.