Operationalizing Transformative Parent Engagement in Latino School Communities: A Case Study
Operationalizing Transformative Parent Engagement in Latino School Communities: A Case Study This call for educatiors to engage bicultural parents and communities has often been driven by the need to counteract long-standing and deeply ingrained negative beliefs about bicultutal parents that even now overlook the positive contributions these parents and communities bring to their children and schools Parent "engagement" rather than "involvement" Thus, parent engagement, as defined by Shirley (1997), "designated parents as citizens in the fullest sense- change agents who can transform urban schools and neighborhoods (p. 73). In other words, while parent involvement continues to be seen unquestionably as a necessary ingredient for successful schools, the actual practice of establishing meaningful home-school-community collaboratipn has remained an enlusive endeavor. Maximizing the gifts, talents, and aspitations therse bicultural parents and c...