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Dr. Joni Samples has taken Family Engagement "down under!" Read about her visit to a school in the outback of Australia and that region's efforts to engage the disengaged.
Click here to read the full article from the Bendigo Advertiser
The Engage! All Families Workshop ---
Support, Achieve, Succeed
(Atlanta, GA --- January 10, 2006) Dr. Steve Constantino, founder
of Family Friendly Schools has had immeasurable success at Stonewall
Jackson High School turning around one of the countries lowest
performing high schools into Time Magazine’s School Of
The Year in 2002. He measured and mastered family engagement
within a school district and today, as a sought after speaker,
his mission is to advance the processes and programs that he invented
as principal at Stonewall Jackson. To make this goal a reality
he has developed, with a team of engagement specialists The Engage!
All Families Workshop, a customized district event focusing on
the research, philosophies, and processes of family engagement.
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(the_engage.pdf - 57KB)
How to turn around a low performing school --- Engage!
All Families
(Atlanta GA – January 10, 2006) How did Stonewall Jackson
High School one of the lowest performing schools in Virginia,
turn the corner and become Time Magazine’s School of the Year? How
did SAT scores increase by 61%, parent satisfaction levels
climb by 25%, and disparity between minority and non-minority
scores improve by 18%? The answer is shockingly simple: family
engagement.
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(turnaround.pdf - 51KB)
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