Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / NSPRA, National School Public Rel Assn
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Trim: 8½ x 11
978-1-61048-292-9 • Paperback • October 2015 • $38.00 • (£29.00)
978-1-61048-293-6 • eBook • October 2015 • $36.00 • (£28.00)
Kathy Leslie, APR, a former teacher and administrator, currently president of Leslie Consulting and Associates has written for national educational journals and co-authored the NSPRA workshop kits Lighting the Fire: A Process for Building Staff Morale and Excellence; Staff Recognition: Unlocking the Potential for Success; Team Building 2000, Managing Change Together and for Chalkboard Project Running Start: Reaching the Hard-To Reach, a Toolkit for Parents and Trainers of Parents. Leslie has worked in nearly every state and internationally to build positive stakeholder relationships and strengthen community by facilitating dialogue, focus groups, strategic planning, community forums, and conflict mediation.
Judy Taccogna brings practical experience as a teacher, counselor, elementary school principal and district administrator. She has also served as the education director at Search Institute, a national research organization in Minneapolis (MN). She has contributed writing and editing to two previous books and a number of newsletters. Global Oregon represented a collaborative writing project among teachers throughout Oregon to produce an economics textbook for high school students under the auspices of Oregon State University/Western Oregon University School of Education. Powerful Teaching: Developmental Assets in Curriculum and Instruction was a project that brought together 24 educators who were applying Search Institute’s developmental asset model to learning in classrooms and schools. She holds bachelor degrees in education and literature, a master’s degree in counseling and guidance, and a doctorate in educational leadership, administration and supervision.
Chapter 1 – Discovering the Power of Authentic Engagement
Chapter 2 – Creating a Culture of Authentic Engagement
Chapter 3 – Collecting and Using Stakeholder Research
Chapter 4 – Engaging Families/Stakeholders and Schools
Chapter 5 – Facilitating Artfully
Chapter 6 – Planning Strategically
Effective school district superintendents understand the necessity to lead change efforts in schools. Kathy Leslie shares her incredible lifetime collection of tools and processes that allow people to bridge racial, economic, and cultural divides on behalf of their children and our nation’s future. This is a must have book for every school superintendent’s library of resources.
— Cheryl Crawley, PhD, CEO, education leadership, Great Falls Montana, superintendents’ coach, anthropologist, and retired (20-year) school district superintendent
If you aspire to effectively engage each family in meaningful work that supports student success, and to develop parent leaders among all your stakeholders including families of color read the Politics of Authentic Engagement. Written by a leader in advanced engagement work Kathy Leslie arms the reader with perspectives, tools, templates and strategies to build a culture of stakeholder engagement and responsibility for the successful performance of all students.
— Joe Krumm APR, past president National School Public Relations Association and public relations director North Clackamas School District, Milwaukie Oregon
Anyone can learn how to better engage their parents, students and communities with this excellent hands-on workbook and its companion book. Kathy Leslie is the nation’s foremost expert in engaging families and communities in schools; we are so fortunate she is sharing her knowledge with all of us. A must-read for anyone involved in education today.
— Patty Farrell, APR; president, Farrell Strategies Inc. former communications and community engagement director for Portland Public Schools and Reynolds School District
Kathy Leslie provides practical “how to” steps in this workbook. I have witnessed firsthand her expertise in helping people learn and work together to tackle complex challenges at our White Water Institute. We are fortunate she has taken the time to share strategies and tools that are key to transformational change in our schools, communities and organizations.
— Marilyn Lane, Ph.D. executive director, White Water Institute and a former school principal, district assistant superintendent and small business owner