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Reaching All Families: Creating Family- Friendly Schools
This booklet is designed for school administrators and teachers in their efforts to involve parents and families as more active participants in their children’s education. Suggested strategies are appropriate for all students, including students with special needs.
Strong Families, Strong Schools: Building Community Partnerships for Learning
This book explains why family involvement is so important to learning. It summarizes recent research and offers practical tips to parents, schools, businesses, and community groups about how to connect families to the learning process.
Employers, Families, and Education: Promoting Family Involvement in Learning
This booklet contains profiles of exemplary business programs around the nation that promote family involvement in learning. The programs can serve as models for other businesses and can be a resource for school and community leaders who are opening a dialogue with businesses in their area.
America Goes Back to School – Get Involved! Partners’ Kit
The America Goes Back to School effort is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. Before the beginning of each school year, the America Goes Back to School effort publishes a resource guide that is designed to encourage everyone to make a commitment to children’s learning. Getting involved can be simple and fun—with enormous rewards for students and for you.
READ*WRITE*NOW! Partners Tutoring Program
The READ*WRITE*NOW! program is a year-round nationwide reading and writing initiative. The Partners Tutoring Program publication is available to assist partners tutor students. Developed by the U.S. Department of Education and Adassah, the booklet suggests a step-by-step method for structuring a tutoring session, instructional techniques when reading aloud with children, and follow-up activities.
Team Up for Kids! How Schools Can Support Family Involvement in Education
This pamphlet outlines strategies for schools to use to promote family involvement in education. It offers suggestions on how to: learn to communicate better; encourage parental participation in school improvement efforts; involve parents in decision making; make parents feel welcome; and use technology to link parents to the classroom.
Better Education is Everybody’s Business! How Businesses Can Support Family Involvement In Education
This pamphlet offers employer options for supporting family involvement in education. It offers suggestions for the kinds of policies and programs businesses can employ for employees and their children in order to support education. It also asks interested businesses to join the Partnership for Family Involvement in Education by filling out the form included in the pamphlet.
Join Together for Kids! How Communities Can Support Family Involvement in Education
This pamphlet outlines strategies for communities to use to support schools and family involvement in education. It includes information on how to: combat alcohol, drugs and violence; teach parent skills; set up mentor programs; enlist volunteers; offer summer learning programs; and support preschool programs.
Summer Home Learning Recipes (K-3; 4-5; 6-8; 9-12)
The Summer Home Learning Recipes pamphlets offer age-appropriate activities that parents can try with their children during the summer months. Each pamphlet offers reading, writing, math, and science activities children can engage in with their parents. The pamphlets for older children also include social studies and health activities.
Preparing Your Child for College
This resource book is designed to help parents plan ahead—with your child and your child’s teachers and counselors—to ensure he or she is prepared academically for the rigors of college and to save now and plan financially for the costs of college education.
Invitation to Your Community: Building Community Partnerships for Learning
The Invitation is Secretary Riley’s personal call for communities to become involved in education. It outlines the centerpiece of the Clinton Administration’s education agenda, the Goals 2000: Education America Act. It also provides questions that community leaders can ask themselves that can help them analyze what needs to be done to improve learning in schools and communities.
Moving America to the Head of the Class: 50 Simple Things You Can Do
This booklet, which is available in both English and Spanish, outlines ways that parents, employers, and other concerned citizens can get involved in improving local schools, within the limits of their busy schedules. Tips are provided for helping children succeed with reading, homework, challenging courses, and high learning goals.
The translated "50 Consejos Utiles" was published as part of the "Keep the Promise" campaign, supported by the U.S. Department of Education, the Business Roundtable, the National Governors’ Association, the American Federation of Teachers, and the National Alliance of Business. "Keep the Promise" encourages all Americans to get involved in improving education, a message that is carried as public service advertising via television, radio, and the print media.
Just Add Kids: A Resource Directory of Learning Partners, Reading Sites, and Other Literacy Organizations
This READ*WRITE*NOW! resource directory lists local groups that match up students with reading tutors and mentors, and other literacy organizations that serve children and their families. The Girl Scouts of the USA, Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Everybody Wins! Foundation, B’nai B’rith Youth Organization, American Library Association, and Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity are among the groups the help support READ*WRITE*NOW!
The Role of Leadership in Sustaining School Reform: Voices from the Field
Case studies are presented involving principals and other school leaders who have successfully sustained school improvement efforts over the long term by developing local partnerships and involving parents.
Get Involved! How Parents and Families Can Help Their Children Do Better in School
This pamphlet outlines strategies parents can use to help improve their children’s education. It includes information on reading together; using the television wisely; talking to children and teenagers; expressing high expectations; and keeping in touch with school.
A Teacher’s Guide to the U.S. Department of Education
The Teacher’s Guide to the U.S. Department of Education offers a compendium of programs that the Department of Education has to offer teachers in primary and secondary schools. It offers information on the Department’s organizational structure, the Clinton Administration’s initiatives; and selected programs the Department funds that are of particular interest to teachers and schools.
Creating Safe and Drug-Free Schools: An Action Guide
The U.S. Department of Education joined forces with the U.S. Department of Justice to publish this invaluable resource for schools and communities. The resource helps school administrators and community leaders establish safe and drug-free school environments where students can learn to their full potential. The booklet discusses issues such as truancy, alternative schools, mentoring, action steps for students, teachers, parents, and community members. A guide to further resources is also included. To request a copy, call 1-800-624-0100.
Helping Your Child Become A Reader
This resource is an illustrated booklet that shows mothers and fathers how they can teach and encourage their children to read and help create a foundation for lifelong interest in reading. Helping Your Child Become A Reader suggests how parents, in addition to reading aloud, can stimulate interest in reading through fun and simple activities. Parents are also encouraged to get involved in their child’s schooling. (Find out if this is still available free from: Helping Your Child Become A Reader, Department 617Z, Consumer Information Center, Pueblo, CO 81009.)
Partners’ Activity Guide
The Partners’ Activity Guide is the publication that supports Secretary Riley’s back to school initiative. This guide suggests ways parents and community members can become meaningfully involved in local schools and resources to assist you in your efforts. For a copy of the complete publication, write the GOALS 2000 Information Resource Center, U.S. Department of Education, Room 2421, 600 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20202.
Together We Can: A Guide for Crafting a Pro-family System of Education and Human Services
This guide provides advice to communities on how to coordinate education, health, and social programs for at-risk children and their families. It contains practical suggestions and examples of ways community leaders can restructure and link services.
The guidebook features profiles and lessons learned from four collaboratives that link community-based and school-based services as well as brief vignettes that portray some common obstacles. Also included is a checklist to help communities through the collaboration process.
Copies of the report cost $11.00 and are available from the Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954. When ordering, specify stock number 065-000-00563-8.
Keeping Schools Open as Community Learning Centers: Extending Learning in a Safe, Drug-Free Environment Before and After School
The Department recently published this document with the assistance of community groups engaged in keeping schools open after school, on the weekends, and during the summer. It is a guide that gives practical ideas and highlights successful programs for before and after school learning activities. It is available from the Department’s Information Resource Center, at 1-800-USA-Learn.
Other publications available from the U.S. Department of Education:
[The Education Resources and Information Center (ERIC)]