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2017-2018 UMass Dartmouth Graduate Catalog 
    
2017-2018 UMass Dartmouth Graduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

ELP 584 - Colloquium IV: Promoting Parental and Civic Engagement in Schools

Credits 1
Lecture
Forum to analyze and debate on strategies and practices that may best involve parents in the education of their children and become civically engaged in their communities to improve the schools where their children attend. Examples of best practices as well as of current of planned initiatives in the region or in the state will be showcased, and scrutinized to improve them as well as to explore their potential for replication or expansion. Emphasis will be placed on the study of how best to develop and sustain partnerships with families and community members that support the mission of the school and the role of educational leaders in community organizing as part of school improvement.
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