When this goal is combined with reading activities at home, a reading contest or a reading month can be held offering certificates to students who read the most books, as well as to those parents who visited the classroom to read from their favorite children s book. In a Nutshell The SFP program offers a variety of strategies and materials to assist the teacher in his quest to meaningfully involve parents and enhance his students performance. Program activities are flexible enough to allow classroom teachers to choose those aspects of school-family partnerships that are the most meaningful for the students and families they serve. The above selected goals have been based on the experiences of several teachers implementing the SFP program and our team s suggestions for curving the most productive path, especially for the first year of the SFP program s implementation. Educators increasingly recognize that school-family partnerships are the key to their students success since they create a sense of continuity and sustenance of learning.
Teachers are the glue that holds school-family partnerships together.