home and school

Offers both parents and teachers practical advice on how they can work together to improve a child's school experience, with tips for working out common issues, including homework, communication, and discipline problems.

The author, who wrote "My Posse Don't Do Homework" (which became the film "Dangerous Minds"), discusses how parents can help their children avoid problems at school by meeting teachers, monitoring homework, charting a child's progress, and understanding learning styles.

Provides practical approaches for program development designed to help leaders understand the six types of family and community involvement, create action teams, plan family and community involvement activities, evaluate community resources, and improve plans, programs, and practices over time.

Principals, teachers, and parents offer tips, checklists, and other resources that can build strong collaborative relationships between parents and schools, which in turn improves students' performance in school.