The Power of Positive Parent-Educator Partnerships
The Power of Building Positive Parent-Educator Partnerships
Practical Applications
Looking to create positive relationships in the ever-changing world of special education? Look no further than Navigating Special Education! This book is filled with insightful strategies and guidance on how to foster successful partnerships, whether through training, coursework, or consulting services. Here are various ways you can build positive partnerships across the educational landscape through training, coursework, and consulting services.
Universities
Navigating Special Education can be the primary or secondary resource/textbook for all undergraduate and graduate education course curricula. The book is applicable to foundations, psychology, ethics, special education, education leadership, and administrative classes. It also teaches communication, data collection, evaluation tools, effective IEP/504 development, parent-educator partnerships, best administrative practices, and the history of education.
Key Concepts
- 5C Model of Communication
Conversations, Collaboration, Cooperation, Compromise, and Consensus - Active listening, data collection, and correspondence strategies
- Best practices for building trust, developing transparency, and forging positive partnerships
Learning Objectives
- Analyze the role of communication in education
- Understand how communication affects building positive partnerships
- Implement the 5C Model of Communication, expressing and internalizing best practices for communication
Active Courses
- Missouri State University – "Working with Families of Exceptional Individuals"
Parents
Navigating Special Education is a comprehensive guide for parents to assist them in establishing a positive parent-educator partnership. The book offers simple communication techniques and education strategies, which decrease the families’ anxiety families when meeting with the teacher(s) or attending IEP meetings. It also demonstrates how parents can effectively communicate with their community of practice by placing the child at the center of all conversations. This book presents real-life examples through stories and easy-to-use examples for data collection and correspondence.
Key Concepts
- Easy-to-understand overview of the special education process
- 5C Model of Communication
Conversations, Collaboration, Cooperation, Compromise, and Consensus - Active listening, data collection, and correspondence strategies
- Building trust, developing transparency, and forging positive partnerships
Learning Objectives
- Understand the importance of communication in the parent-educator relationship
- Examine the role of communication in education
- Implement the 5C Model of Communication, express and internalize best practices for communication
- Develop empathy
Teachers, Administrators, and Pre-K–12 Staff
Navigating Special Education is a comprehensive guide for all members of the educational community of practice. This book is a recommended reading for all staff. It could be used by educational leadership during weekly and/or monthly staff-faculty meetings to establish how to build a positive parent-educator partnership.
Navigating Special Education teaches data collection, effective IEP/504 development, communication, parent-educator partnerships, best administrative practices, and the history of education. The book offers simple communication techniques and education strategies, helping to decrease staff anxiety when meeting with parents and/or attending IEP meetings. It also demonstrates how to effectively communicate across the school culture using data collection and correspondence. It emphasizes the need for the student’s voice to be represented at the center of all conversations by using real-life examples through stories and easy-to-use examples.
Key Concepts
- An easy-to-use framework to drive all parent-teacher conversations
- 5C Model of Communication
Conversations, Collaboration, Cooperation, Compromise, and Consensus - Active listening, data collection, and correspondence strategies to build trust and transparency
- Best practices for building trust, developing transparency, and forging positive partnerships
Learning Objectives
- Analyze the role of communication in education
- Understand how communication affects building positive educator-parent partnerships
- Implement the 5C Model of Communication by utilizing positive verbal and written communication
Professional Development
The 5-C Model of Communication, which is outlined in Navigating Special Education is transferable across all industries. It is a tool that senior leaders can use to build dynamic teams that lead to productive conversations. The principles that drive this framework have been rewritten for corporate leaders in the book Conversations Lead to Consensus. This book delves into the interconnected elements of Conversations, Collaboration, Cooperation, Compromise, and how they pave the way for achieving Consensus. There is a chapter devoted to each of the 5-Cs, which can be used as stand-alone modules to help teams develop the skills required to have open dialogues and co-create solutions. Learning how to use this framework will lead to all team members feeling valued and heard.
Key Concepts
- 5C Model of Communication
Conversations, Collaboration, Cooperation, Compromise, and Consensus - Effective communication skills, verbal, vocal, and non-verbal communication
- Active listening strategies
Learning Objectives for Companies
- Analyze the role communication plays across the work environment
- Improve team productivity through effective communication, active listening, and perspective-taking
- Understand the link between fostering partnerships and collaborative success
- Cultivate the importance of corporate buy-in to avoid an ‘unhappy minority’
Speakers and Guest Lectures
Powerhouse speakers and experienced educators, Peggy S. Bud and Tamara L. Jacobson are available to present their key concepts found in the innovative book, Navigating Special Education. Their talks highlight the importance of effective communication as it relates to working collaboratively and cooperatively as members of a team and within an organization. They customize their presentations to target the needs, interests, and concerns of the audience.
Suggested Title
- When All Else Fails, Go Back to the 5C's
- The 5C Model of Communication; Its Power to Drive Partnerships
- Preparation is Key, The Importance of Data
- How to Actively Listen Across All Platforms
- Navigating Negotiations Through Active Listening
- Conflicts Lead to Creative Solutions
- Redefining the Parent-Teacher Relationship
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