Diverse Partnerships for Student Success is based on the deep conviction that schools function best in collaboration with the larger community. It offers strategies and tolls to help educational leaders create successful partnerships in a socioeconomically and culturally diverse society and presents information on how to identify relevant demographic trends to address the educational, cultural, vocational, and recreational needs of students and citizens. Grounded in ISLLC and NCATE standards, the book offers comprehensive, research-based information; concrete program ideas; and numerous Internet sites for additional help in creating and sustaining family and community engagement. It presents strategies for involving people_individually and collectively_in agencies, businesses, and organizations to mobilize the resources of the entire community. Diverse Partnerships for Student Success will assist educational and community leaders in developing, implementing, and sustaining a comprehensive partnership system that helps all children succeed academically.

"Diverse Partnerships for Student Success is a timely addition to a growing body of work on school, family, and community partnerships, collaborative leadership, and public engagement in education. Educational administrators and those who train and supervise them will find much in the book that is useful and informative. The book offers multiple, well-developed rationales for why school outreach and partnerships are important including relevant statistics on schools, students, and families pulled from a variety of sources. The book also offers a variety of web resources to help educational leaders learn more about different approaches to and resources for diverse partnerships. Readers ...will leave the book with a heightened awareness that effective schools are collaborative schools, and a clear understanding of the types of collaboration in which schools can and should engage to achieve important goals for students, families, and communities. The book succeeds in stressing the importance of a systematic and deliberate approach to partnership planning; competent, politically astute, collaborative school leaders for effective partnerships; and a strong sense that the time for diverse partnerships is now." - Teachers College Record