Reframing Parent Involvement: What Should Urban School Leaders Do Differently?

What is it about?

What if parent involvement were perceived by educators as asset-based rather than from a deficit perspective? In other words, why not consider multiple jobs, foreign languages, multiple caretakers, etc. as assets that teachers and principals need to incorporate into their interactions with parents?

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Why is it important?

The parent-school divide debates in the literature have not been that productive in bringing these two social institutions together on behalf of children.

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