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Building Communities of Learners: A Collaboration Among Teachers, Students, Families, and Community

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Collaboration is the way to help students overcome a variety of issues they face in today's tough world. By learning to work together in a safe environment, they develop lifelong skills that will help them with all interpersonal relationships. Home and community and school need to work together to educate children. McCaleb offers reasons why and how to accomplish the important task of interweaving the culture of these 3 elements in the children's lives. Sharing stories and creating books together is a great way to come together and also to create lasting memories.

This book provides the reader with classroom ideas to incorporate the family, communities, students, and teacher in the school curriculum. The teachers in the book suggest many different tactics to approach very diverse students and their families. McCaleb wants the students to realize that they are important in society, by showing them how others have succeeded. Students bring many experiences into the classroom, and teachers should build from those experiences to make their education more meaningful for the student