ERIC Number: EJ766367
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Mar
Pages: 5
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1784
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Building Partnerships with Immigrant Parents
Sobel, Andrea; Kugler, Eileen Gale
Educational Leadership, v64 n6 p62-66 Mar 2007
In 2004, immigrant-rich Annandale High School in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., launched a focused effort to bring more parents of students from immigrant families into school leadership. Nearly half of the parents of Annandale High students are immigrants to the United States--and they come from more than 80 different countries. Parents from various immigrant communities were invited to join parent leadership seminars given in English or Spanish; other programming was targeted to other immigrant communities most heavily represented at the school. Sobel and Kugler share strategies the school learned from the school's two-year effort, with special attention to communication strategies that were most effective at involving parents.
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Communication Strategies, Immigrants, Partnerships in Education, Parent Participation, Parent School Relationship, Parent Workshops, Outreach Programs, Participant Satisfaction, Leadership Training, Case Studies, Program Effectiveness
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: High Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Virginia
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