Partnering With Families: Connections and Disconnections When Linking Theory to the Particular

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Abstract

This paper tells the story of a teacher and a teacher educator as they grappled, together and apart, with the same question: what does it mean to work well with families as elementary school teachers? Specifically, it interrogates what it means to partner with families? To do so they investigate how partnering with families has led to connections and disconnections when facing the particulars of daily work in an elementary school.

Authors

• Cara Elizabeth Furman, University of Maine at Farmington

• Hillary Post, Children's Community School