ERL 560 Building Family Partnerships and Learning Communities
In this course, candidates deepen their understanding of effective school-family-community partnerships and the partnerships’ role in establishing a caring educational community designed to ensure literacy success. The six keys to successful school-family-community partnerships: parenting, communicating, volunteering, home learning, decisions making, and community collaboration, will serve as the underlying themes for research-related study and topics that include strategies for creating effective partnerships in the educational setting. Candidates design a school-related "School Partnership Action Plan" that includes an inventory of present practices, a one-year Action Teams for Partnerships (ATP plan), and coordinating ATP plan evaluation/assessment to improve practices in the school year following implementation of the plan.