Negotiating The Special Education Maze by Deidre Hayden, Cherie Takemoto, Winifred Anderson, and Stephen Chitwood
For more than 25 years, this classic guide has taken parents, guardians, educational advocates, and special educators step-by-step through the special education process. Now revised and updated, reflecting the latest changes to the special education laws, NEGOTIATING THE SPECIAL EDUCATION MAZE continues to provide thorough, time-tested advice based on the authors' years of experience helping parents advocate for their child. More information here.

Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family-School Partnerships by Anne Henderson, Karen Mapp, Vivian Johnson and Don Davies
One of American School Board Journal's editors top education books of 2007 is Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family-School Partnerships!! It is recommended as one of the must-reads of the year. More information here.

Kentucky Parent Advisory Council Issues Recommendations and Rubric for Parent Involvement. More information here.

The American Association of Colleges of Teacher Preparation (AACTE), with support from the MetLife Foundation (and behind the scenes support from NCPIE), held a Mini Institute for their members in February of 2007 to promote the importance of engaging parents in the academic success of their children in pre-service teacher training programs and in-service professional development programs. The Survey and Findings, as well as the presentations from leading researchers are being made available on their website.

This site will offer various presentations and information for use in addressing the concerns for Parental Involvement. We hope you use this site to develop or begin a program that provides new teacher training and in-service professional development with the tools necessary to effectively work with families to increase academic success for all students.

Hot off the Press!!!

Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family-School Partnerships is just off the press. Written for educators as well as parent and community leaders, this book is packed with tools to engage families in ways that will improve student achievement. Check out these excerpts:

• Table of Contents
• Honoring Families
• Family Support Key to Diversity in Advanced Classes
• Helping Families Understand What's Happening in the Classroom
• Supporting Advocacy: How Can "Problem Parents" Become Partners You Can Work With?

To order a copy, go to: www.thenewpress.com and click on current season.

Book excerpts © 2007 by Anne T. Henderson, Karen L. Mapp, Vivian R. Johnson, and Don Davies. This material originally appears in Beyond the Bake Sale: The Essential Guide to Family-School Partnerships (The New Press: February 5, 2007). Published with the permission of The New Press and available at good book stores everywhere.

It Takes a Parent: Transforming Education in the Wake of the No Child Left Behind Act
September 2006
This report documents an effort to combine practical, on-the-ground perspectives, based upon interviews, and on federal, state, and district policy research, with current social science research on key parental involvement issues and effective practices. Mostly, it reflects an effort to assemble and analyze what we know as a matter of practice and as a matter of research in framing an action agenda promoting more effective parental involvement practices by schools, districts, and states. Please see the report here.

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