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In It Together: How Student, Family, and Community Partnerships Advance Engagement and Achievement in Diverse Classrooms

Harness the power of teacher, student, school, family, and community partnerships to promote student success

Teaching effectively in diverse classrooms has become more complex than ever. The authors of this practical, compelling, and inspiring book propose that understanding the spheres of influence that connect students with teachers, peers, family members, and the broader community significantly increases the odds that every student will succeed in school.  In clear, practitioner-friendly language with examples from an inspiring range of K-12 educators, the authors explore how tapping into the rich resources of teachers, students, families, the school community and the community-at-large can make the work of learning more successful for all involved. Richly detailed vignettes and concrete, evidence-based strategies help you systematically:

 

  • Build coalitions of support around learning and engagement
  • Develop positive relationships with students, their families and their communities
  • Foster positive, reciprocal partnerships
  • Promote peer-to-peer relationship building
  • Support students and families from marginalized populations

Learn to draw from the rich resources found within your learning community to build bridges to academic success for all learners. This comprehensive book shows you how!

Building meaningful relationships in education can be difficult, particularly when the parties involved are different from one another in identity, experience, and other ways. As a result, although in principle collaborations and partnerships in education are universally lauded, in practice they are often ignored. What we need are examples of partnerships that work. In it Together by Debbie Zacarain and Michael Silverstone suggests productive ways to work with, learn from, and form authentic relationships with diverse communities. Combining their abundant experience in classrooms and schools, and using examples from caring teachers in diverse classrooms, the authors demonstrate what it means to really be in it together. Teachers, administrators, and everyone who cares about the future of education in a diverse society will benefit from the strategies they suggest.
Sonia Nieto, Professor Emerita
University of Massachusetts

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Product Details
  • Weight: 390g
  • Dimensions: 177 x 254mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Apr 2015
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781483316772

About Debbie ZacarianMichael A. Silverstone

Dr. Debbie Zacarian founder of Zacarian & Associates provides professional development strategic planning and technical assistance for K-16 educators of culturally and linguistically diverse populations. She has served as an expert consultant for school districts universities associations and organizations including the Massachusetts Parent Information Resource Center and Federation for Children with Special Needs. Debbie has worked with numerous state and local education agencies and written the language assistance programming policies for many rural suburban and urban districts.  Debbie served on the faculty of University of Massachusetts-Amherst where she co-wrote and was the co-principal investigator of a National Professional Development grant initiative supporting the professional preparation of educators of multilingual learners.  Debbie also designed and taught courses for pre- and in-service administrators and teachers on culturally responsive teaching and supervision practices multilingual development and ethnographic research.  In addition she served as a program director at the Collaborative for Educational Services where she provided professional development for thousands of educators of multilingual students and partnered with Fitchburg State University in co-writing and enacting a National Professional Development initiative that supported STEM education. Debbie also directed the Amherst Public Schools bilingual and English learner programming where she and the district received state and national honors.  The author of more than 100 publications her most recent professional books include: Beyond Crises: Overcoming Linguistic and Cultural Inequities in Communities. Schools and Classrooms; Responsive Schooling for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students; Teaching to Empower: taking action to foster student agency self-confidence and collaboration; and Teaching to Strengths: Supporting Students living with Trauma Violence and Chronic Stress.   Michael Silverstone has been a full-time elementary teacher in Massachusetts since 1998. With Debbie Zacarian he co-authored the Grade 2 chapter in Academic Language in Diverse Classrooms: Promoting Content and Language Learning Mathematics Grades K-2 (Corwin). His essay recounting his discovery of the vital importance of maintaining professional autonomy while fostering relationships with students families and colleaguesin spite of all the pressures to standardize classroom practiceis the closing teacher-essay in the anthology Why We Teach Now edited by Sonia Nieto (Teachers College Press). Silverstone is also the author of a number of Young Adult non-fiction books including Rigoberta Menchú: Defending Human Rights in Guatemala and Winona LaDuke: Restoring Land and Culture in Native America (The Feminist Press at the City University of NY). He is a Teacher Consultant with the Western Massachusetts Writing Project of the National Writing Project. http://www.umass.edu/wmwp/

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