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Vignette - Ball Foundation, Cotsen, George Herrera - Feb 16 2012 - 5:54pm - 2 comment(s)
George Herrera of Rowland Unified School District, Rowland, California describes some of the challenges, activities, and outcomes of a family literacy community of practice that included both teachers and parents.
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Perspective - Lara Hebert - Apr 25 2013 - 3:06pm
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Resources - George Herrera, KaiLonnie Dunsmore, Rosario Ordoñez-Jasis - May 13 2013 - 2:57pm
In this article from Language Arts (May 2013), the authors look at how a community of practice in one midsize urban K–12 school district engaged in a community-mapping process to discover, gather, and analyze a rich array of community and home resources in order to create...
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Resources - Charlene Klassen-Endrizzi - May 10 2012 - 12:01pm
This resource from Becoming Teammates: Teachers and Families as Literacy Partners focuses on an opening engagement as well as on an event that allows families to examine teachers' literacy knowledge in comparison to their own literacy experiences.
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Perspective - KaiLonnie Dunsmore - Jul 5 2012 - 5:36pm - 1 comment(s)
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Resources - Carlos Ochoa, George Herrera, KaiLonnie Dunsmore, Rosario Ordoñez-Jasis - Oct 5 2012 - 2:27pm
This Web seminar examines Community Mapping as a practice designed to uncover a rich array of resources in households and communities that hold the potential to enhance literacy learning...
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Resources - NCLE - Feb 23 2013 - 5:06pm
This online panel discussion hosted by NCLE brought together educators who were leading three different family engagement initiatives—Lesson Studio for Parents (Urbana Middle School, IL), Parent University (Washoe County School District, NV), and...
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Perspective - Lara Hebert - Mar 14 2013 - 5:10pm
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Resources - Harvard Family Research Project - Feb 19 2013 - 12:40pm
There is strong evidence that when schools partner with families and community-based organizations, these partnerships for learning improve children’s development and school success. In this report from the Harvard Family Research Project, authors Erin Harris and Shani Wilkes draw on the...
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Resources - Charlene Klassen-Endrizzi - Aug 28 2012 - 12:02pm
Two engagements that enable teachers to understand more clearly family's literacy funds of knowledge are explained in this excerpt from Becoming Teammates: Teachers and Families as Literacy Partners (NCTE, 2008), by Charlene Klassen-Endrizzi.
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Resources - Cathy Fleischer - May 10 2012 - 11:36am
This excerpt from Reading & Writing & Teens: A Parent's Guide to Adolescent Literacy by Cathy Fleischer (NCTE, 2010) gives a brief background on literacy, the challenges that adolescents face in reading and writing, and the ways in which teachers and parents...
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Resources - Ball Foundation - Apr 27 2012 - 5:40pm
The “fishbowl” process of observation and conversation is useful for reaching a shared understanding of organizational and instructional issues. This two-page document provides a description of the purpose and use of the conversational process. A discussion group of 5-8...
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Resources - Ball Foundation, Cotsen, RUSD - Jun 27 2012 - 2:27pm
Listen in as this community of practice made up of of educators, parents, and a school board member talk about their work with community mapping and how it impacts instruction.
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Perspective - Lara Hebert - Oct 25 2012 - 6:08pm
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Perspective - Patricia Stock - Sep 20 2012 - 4:35pm