Meet the Parents

Meet the Parents is an essential guide for school leaders and classroom teachers looking to build stronger and more productive relationships with the families of pupils. This book leverages more than 40 years of experience to explain techniques for uniting families with diverse backgrounds and circumstances, highlighting the most successful approaches for encouraging and developing the home-school partnership. By drawing on case studies and real-life examples, Lepkowska and Nightingale unpick the reasons behind barriers to learning and examine issues that demotivate parents from engaging with schools.

The authors cover a range of important topics, from long-standing concerns to modern problems, including:

• Making the most of parents' evening.
• Special Educational Needs and Disability.
• Bereavement, divorce, and loss.
• Raising the aspirations of parents and children.
• Influence of the media and online safety.

Meet the Parents aims to aid headteachers, senior leaders, classroom practitioners, student teachers, and any other school staff who wish to develop a more effective ongoing home-school partnership. Recognising the vital need for parental engagement with children’s learning, this book will help schools and families come together to provide the best support possible for every child.