The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other

By Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Book Overview

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A renowned Harvard University professor offers valuable insights, incisive lessons, and deft guidance on how to communicate more effectively to help parents and teachers make the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 037550527X
• ISBN13: 9780375505270
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.9" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Essential to any teacher

I bought this because because every teacher needs some help working alongside parents. I have yet to have a class (undergraduate/graduate) where we have been taught how to collaborate with parents. This is not a list of what to and what to not do with parents. Instead, this book shares many personal accounts of both teachers and parents. As I work toward my doctoral degree, I will remember this book as a text in my teacher-training classes.

A truly engaging book.

This is certainly a "must-read" for both parents and teachers alike, in order to align their performance desires and expectations. This book paves the way for dialogue that is needed between parents and teachers.