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Fostering School–Family Relationships in Multicultural Communities

Matthew Knoester, Maura G. Robinson, Touorizou Hervé Somé

Publication Date: September 26, 2025

Pages: 168

Series: Multicultural Education Series

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Description+

This practitioner-friendly resource will help parents and educators with different values and viewpoints to better communicate, understand, and collaborate for the benefit of all children (K–12).

Drawing from personal stories and current research, this book suggests ways in which families and schools can work together to optimize the academic, social, and emotional development of all students, with a focus on diverse students and families.

Utilizing their unique backgrounds as professional educators, scholars, parents, and immigrants, the authors provide vivid descriptions of successful family–school collaborations, powerful culturally relevant educational experiences, effective communication models, and strategies parents can use to become stronger advocates for public schools in their communities. Discussion questions at the end of each chapter are designed to improve communication so parents can better understand the work of schools and, in turn, educators can learn from families.

Book Features:

  • Offers a road map for creating a school community grounded in the tenets of integrated, multicultural education.
  • Provides tools for creating high-quality communication between families and educators, including guidance for overcoming common obstacles.
  • Provides information for parents about how to navigate the school system and its resources.
  • Includes reflection and discussion questions that can be used in book clubs or study groups with both parents and educators.
  • Contains a list of books that the authors recommend reading and discussing following this one.

Author+

Matthew Knoester is a professor and chair of the Educational Studies Department at Ripon College. Maura G. Robinson is a diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) consultant and coach to school districts and organizations. Touorizou Hervé Somé is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Studies at Ripon College.

Reviews+

“If we hope to cultivate meaningful, lasting, trusting family–school relationships, we must reimagine what those relationships can and ought to be and then adjust everything we’re doing; the old five easy strategies never, ever work. The authors model something more transformative, stepping us through that reimagining process, contextualizing valuable practical strategies in even more valuable expansions of understanding.”
—Paul C. Gorski is the founder of the Equity Literacy Institute, and coauthor with Katy Swalwell of Fix Injustice, Not Kids and Other Principles for Transformative Equity Leadership

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Books In This Series
Race, Curriculum, and the Politics of Educational Justice
Race, Curriculum, and the Politics of Educational Justice
Fostering School–Family Relationships in Multicultural Communities
Fostering School–Family Relationships in Multicultural Communities
Critical Theory, Methods, and Design in Educational Research
Critical Theory, Methods, and Design in Educational Research
Affirming Student Ethnic Identities
Affirming Student Ethnic Identities
Critical Ethnic Studies and the Global Pursuit of Justice
Critical Ethnic Studies and the Global Pursuit of Justice
Let's Talk About DEI
Let's Talk About DEI
Why Historically Black Colleges and Universities Matter
Why Historically Black Colleges and Universities Matter
Hidden in Blackness
Hidden in Blackness
"To Remain an Indian"
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