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Amatea, Ellen S.; Mixon, Kacy; McCarthy, Shannon – Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families, 2013
Systemically trained counselors have a distinctive set of skills that make them well suited to prepare teachers to work with students' families. In this article, we discuss our experiences as family counselors in developing and teaching a required course in family-school collaboration to elementary teachers in training. We first describe the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Family Counseling, Family School Relationship, Elementary School Teachers
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Amatea, Ellen S.; Vandiver, Fran – Journal of School Leadership, 2004
By expanding the school leadership team to include the school's counselors, the staff of a K-12 school successfully transformed many of their existing family-school routines into more collaborative efforts. We delineate the history of this change initiative, the goals and objectives for the change project, and the primary organizational change…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, School Administration, Organizational Change