Improving School and Family Partnerships in Urban Middle Grades Schools: Orientation Days and School Newsletters. Report No. 20.

Autor/inn/en	Epstein, Joyce L.; Herrick, Susan C.
Institution	Center for Research on Effective Schooling for Disadvantaged Students, Baltimore, MD.
Titel	Improving School and Family Partnerships in Urban Middle Grades Schools: Orientation Days and School Newsletters. Report No. 20.
Quelle	(1991), (56 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Educational Improvement; Elementary School Students; Grade 6; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools; Newsletters; Outreach Programs; Parent Attitudes; Parent Participation; Program Evaluation; Program Improvement; School Orientation; Student Attitudes; Teacher Attitudes; Urban Schools + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; School year 06; 6. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 06; Mittelstufe; Middle school; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Jobcoaching; Elternverhalten; Elternmitwirkung; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Schülerverhalten; Lehrerverhalten; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule
Abstract	This publication contains two reports describing the development and beginning evaluations of two separate programs of the Baltimore (Maryland) School and Family Connections Project designed to increase parents' involvement in their children's learning in urban middle grades schools. The first report, "Reactions of Parents, Students, and Teachers to Middle School Orientation Days" (S. C. Herrick and J. L. Epstein), examines the reactions of 101 parents, 321 students, and 20 teachers to the Orientation Days program at Hampstead Hill Middle School (Maryland), which was designed to improve the school's communication with parents of new sixth-graders. The second report, "Reactions of Parents to School Newsletters in the Middle Grades" (J. L. Epstein and S. C. Herrick), examines the reactions of parents (n=70 families) to the Parents and Teachers Newsletter at Booker T. Washington Middle School (Maryland), which was initiated to make parents feel welcome at the school and provide them with information about school programs and workshops held at the school. Both programs were successful as initial efforts in reaching and involving families of middle grades students, but they have considerable room for improvement. The programs are being revised and extended in response to their evaluations. Statistical data are provided in three tables. Three appendices to the first report present results from parents, teachers, and students. Two appendices to the second report contain the survey and parent responses. (Author/SLD)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC