Title: Family-School Partnerships: 9 Beliefs and Attitudes for Success - Institute for Student Achievement
Headings: Family-School Partnerships: 9 Beliefs and Attitudes for Success
Family-School Partnerships: 9 Beliefs and Attitudes for Success
By Abner Oakes

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Family-school relationships should be focused on student progress and success. The reason for educators and families to cooperate, coordinate, and collaborate is to enhance learning opportunities, educational progress, and school success for students. Therefore, family-school interactions focus on what each partner can do to improve the development and learning of children and youth. Families are equal partners in attaining educational goals for students. Educators view families and creating family-school relationships as essential for children’s optimal academic, social, and emotional learning. Both in- and out-of-school times are recognized as influencing students’ school performance. When student concerns are described, the reciprocal influence between family and school contexts is considered. Decisions made at school affect home, and vice versa. Sharing information about child behavior across settings is valued. Each partner recognizes that he or she sees the child primarily in one setting and understands how the child is reacting in the other setting.