After reading Ch.7 in your textbook, respond to the following prompt:

What are the primary benefits of family involvement in schools? What are some ways that you can increase family involvement in your school? What challenges have you faced (or what challenges do you anticipate facing) in trying to increase family involvement? If a student's family will/cannot get involved at school, what could you do to support the student?

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• Concludewith a question or new idea to further stimulate the discussion.

Discussion posts should always be thoughtful and courteous and include some references or direct evidence from the unit's content, readings, or assignments to support your statements. Your discussion board post will be graded according to the Discussion Board Rubric for this course.