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Tables of Contents for Parent, Student and Teacher Collaboration
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
viii
Introduction
1
8
Outline of key elements
1
5
Scope and organization
6
3
Starting Points: Our Beliefs and Assumptions
9
10
Parent involvement and effective schools
9
3
Schools as organizations in context
12
3
Influences within effective schools
15
4
The Hidden Link: Parent Influences upon Student Commitment
19
26
Framework for the analysis of family influence
19
4
How we sought answers to the questions
23
1
Parents as mediators and catalysts
24
1
Six portraits
25
12
Predictables and anomalies
37
5
Assessing the significance of the hidden link
42
3
The Good Teacher: Parent Experiences and Preferences
45
18
Assessing teacher quality
45
1
Parents and teacher collaboration
46
5
Comparing teacher collaboration practices and results
51
7
The beliefs and attitudes of parents
58
2
Assessing the impact of the good teacher on the beliefs and attitudes of parents
60
3
The Levers of Change: The Impact of Teachers on Parents and Students
63
10
Identifying the levers of change
63
1
The attitudes of parents and students
64
3
Comparisons of attitude sets by site
67
3
Comparisons of attitudes by classroom
70
1
Using the levers of change
71
2
Varieties of Teacher Collaboration
73
10
Assessing teacher collaboration
73
1
How we sought answers to the questions about collaboration
74
1
Analyzing teacher practices
75
4
A second analysis of teacher practices
79
2
The significance of collaborative practice for parents and teachers
81
2
Seeing the Teacher as Partner
83
15
Teacher/student collaboration and student commitment
83
3
How we assess student and parent views on teacher collaboration
86
2
The portraits of collaboration
88
1
Narrowing the focus: two classrooms
89
6
Comparing two different analyses
95
1
Students and teacher collaboration
96
2
The Responsible Student: Influences on the Development of Responsibility
98
18
Student responsibility
98
1
Tracing connections in the survey data
99
2
Influences shaping student responsibility
101
13
How teachers and parents develop student responsibility
114
2
The Good Teacher: A Student Perspective
116
16
Trying to understand student experiences
117
2
Analyzing the interview data on student attitudes
119
1
The profiles and the outliers
119
8
The survey data
127
5
Changing Teacher Collaborative Practices
132
9
Teacher practices and parent and student attitudes
132
1
How we tested the effects of our attempt to change teacher practices
132
6
Testing our classroom portraits
138
1
The power of teacher practices
138
3
The Power of Three: Lessons for School Improvement
141
20
How parent and student attitudes are shaped
141
2
Four myths about parents and students
143
5
Proposals for reform based upon our research
148
6
Getting from the schools we have to the schools we need
154
7
Appendix: Quantitative and Qualitative Methodologies
161
11
The general approach to data collection and analysis
161
1
The advantages of mixed methods
162
1
An initial quantitative analysis: the predictors of student commitment
163
6
Methods of analyzing the interview data
169
3
Chapter Notes
172
32
References
204
7
Subject Index
211
4
Author Index
215