Resources from Oliver Moles

Oliver Moles

Resource Title: Reaching all families: Creating family friendly schools
Author: Oliver Moles, editor
Description: A collection of best practices for schools to welcome and involve families produced by the U.S. Department of Education in 1996, and now available only on the web. Eighteen practices cover introducing school policies and programs, personal contacts, ongoing communications, special practices and programs, and special groups.

Resource Title: Strong Families, Strong Schools (Oliver Moles)
Author: Jennifer Ballen and Oliver Moles
Description: A review of 30 years of research on family involvement in children's education as well as programs with research evidence based in schools, communities, businesses, and state and federal initiatives. Produced by the U.S. Department of Education in 1994 as the opening rationale for its Partnership for Family Involvement in Education, now only available on the web.