Paul D. Houston & Alan M. Blankstein 
Leadership for Family and Community Involvement [EPUB ebook] 

Preface – Robert Cole
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Engaging Families to Enhance Student Success – Alan M. Blankstein and Pedro A. Noguera
2. Parents as Leaders: School, Family, and Community Partnerships in Two Districts – Mavis G. Sanders
3. Sharing the Dream: Engaging Families as Partners in Supporting Student Success – Susan Frelick-Wooley, Cynthia Rosacker Glimpse, and Sheri De Boe Johnson
4. The ‘What’ and ‘How’ of Helping Parents Help Students Become Successful Learners – Yoni Schwab & Maurice J. Elias
5. Family Literacy: The Roles of School Libraries and Public Libraries – Lesley S. J. Farmer
6. Balancing Your Communication Ledger:Using Audits to Involve Communities and Build Support for Schools – Edward H. Moore
7. Manage the Molehill Before It Becomes a Mountain: Keeping Parent Interactions Productive for Students – Lin Kuzmich
8. Raising the Village by Bringing Communities and Schools Together – Paul D. Houston
Index

Robert W. Cole is proprietor and founder of Edu-Data, a firm specializing in writing, research, and publication services. He was a member of the staff of Phi Delta Kappan magazine for 14 years: assistant editor 1974-1976, managing editor 1976-1980, and editor-in-chief 1981-88. During his tenure as editor-in-chief, the Kappan earned more than 40 Distinguished Achievement Awards from the Association of Educational Publishers, three of them for his editorials. Since leaving the Kappan, Cole has served as founding vice president of the Schlechty Center for Leadership in School Reform (1990-1994). At CLSR he managed districtwide and communitywide school reform efforts and led the team that created the Kentucky Superintendents’ Leadership Institute. He formed the Bluegrass Leadership Network, in which superintendents worked together to use current leadership concepts to solve reform-oriented management and leadership problems.As senior consultant to the National Reading Styles Institute (1994-2005), Cole served as editor and lead writer of the Power Reading Program. He and a team of writers and illustrators created a series of hundreds of graded short stories, short novels, and comic books from Primer through Grade 10. Those stories were then recorded by Cole and Marie Carbo; they are being used by schools all across the United States to teach struggling readers.Cole has served as a book development editor for the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), for Corwin Press, and for Writer’s Edge Press. He has been president of the Educational Press Association of America and member of the Ed Press Board of Directors. He has presented workshops, master classes, and lectures at universities nationwide, including Harvard University, Stanford University, Indiana University, Xavier University, Boise State University, and the University of Southern Maine. He has served as a special consultant to college and university deans in working with faculties on writing for professional publication. Recently he began serving as managing editor and senior associate with the Center for Empowered Leadership.