Research
2007-2008 Funded Project
Using School-Family-Community Partnerships to Build School Success Behaviors in Adolescents
Dana Griffin, assistant professor of school counseling, and John Galassi, professor of school counseling, are working with families of students at Gravelly Hill Middle to generate data about truancy, behavioral problems, and the lack of academic success in math and English for students as seen through the eyes of parents.
The data generated will inform a parental education plan that will empower the parents to become more actively involved in their children’s education. The theoretical foundation utilized will be Structural Family Therapy, which purports that change should occur through parents. Griffin and Galassi will actively seek out the expertise of parents through conducting focus groups and survey research. This information will be used to generate data regarding the needs, wants, and the barriers that the parents perceive to being more involved in their children’s educational development and to assist their children in developing school success behavior in one of these areas.
