ECS 5709 - Building Family-School Partnerships for Youth Success

The course is designed as a service-learning course to acquaint learners with the necessary background for effective development and application of partnerships between families, schools and communities. Emphasis is on continuous partnership efforts and understandings of contexts and ethics when working with linguistically and culturally diverse families, schools and communities. Requires 37 hours of school/community-based service learning hours. Students enrolled in 6709 will be expected to meet a higher standard of performance and may be assigned additional assignments.