Trabajamos Juntos
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About Trabajamos Juntos
Our story
We designed this website as a meeting place for individuals seeking to strengthen the school-family partnership. There are several pages of resources to support the endeavors of educators building a positive community inside the classroom, their school, and extend into the surrounding community.
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Curious?
Are you interested in learning what various academic studies have discovered about parent-teacher relationships, but would rather not read dozens of research articles?
Read my Literature Review instead. I sum up the reasoning and importance of school staff and family partnership with evidence on how to build and/or increase the success of your school's partnerships.
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The Why
Truly my passion project has always been to define and defend how a school can build a community center and why it is important and necessary. This literature review solidified my beliefs that community centers can offer benefits not only to family-school relationships, but to raising up the whole family in order to educate the whole child. I think that the education community should be made aware of how vital parent-teacher relationships are to the success of not only to student academics but to their social and emotional well-being as well.
The questions
In a study by El Nokali et al. (2010) evidence of varying levels of parental involvement in schools were active predictors for student academic success and social and emotional development. In this and many studies, concurrent evidence of parent participation and student success in academics were clearly linked. There are countless studies that validate and accredit school academic success and growth to the involvement of parents and families, but there is extraordinarily less common knowledge on how to encourage parents to be involved, how to foster positive relationships between teachers and parents, and how teachers can bridge cultural barriers to communicate effectively with parents of students outside of the teacher’s own race. So, how do successful urban schools create and establish a strong positive relationship between the school staff and the student community? Are there prescribed steps that any urban school as a whole can follow in order to create a community where teachers and families focus singularly on the overall success of the student as a whole child so that the student grows into a well-rounded, healthy, educated adult?
