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 most of parent-teacher conferences, the essential conversation between the most vital people in a child's life.

"An enormously important volume . . . that will help us all understand what happens when children leave home in order to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345475801
• ISBN13: 9780345475800
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.9"

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.