Teton County School District is committed to using research-base best practices whenever possible.  For this project the following resources were used, representing the best research on school involvement in the United States.  Local methods and materials are adopted directly from this celebrated work.  We invite you to explore these materials and we'll make notes on the project calendar when we are using templates, forms or other materials from these publications. 

This handbook guides school leaders, district and state facilitators from around the country as they plan, implement, and improve school-family-community partnership programs.  Notably, the community involvement checklist we will use with each school as an inventory tool, based on this work.  Dr. Joyce Epstien, the primary author on this work, is Director of the Johns Hopkins University Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships. 

To learn more about this publication, click on the picture of the book.

This book is designed for professors of education and social sciences to prepare future teachers and administrators to take new directions in organizing programs of family and community involvement. We've used it in our project because it includes information about original research.  This book was updated in 2011.

The inventory is a tool taken directly from the Handbook.  CLICK HERE to download the tool as a PDF.  Each school and the the District Administration/Board of Education will complete the inventory, providing the structure for the action plans.  Each school's principal will decide how best to complete the inventory, with some schools using committees or staff work-groups to complete it.