Family and community involvement are increasingly touted as a means of improving both student and school-level achievement. This has led to an increase in policies, initiatives and goals designed to address family involvement in schools. Once recognized and implemented, such family-school partnerships can lead to the following benefits: enhanced communication and coordination between parents and educators, continuity in developmental goals and approaches across family and school contexts, shared ownership and commitment to educational goals, increased understanding of the complexities of children¿s situations, and the pooling of family and school resources to find and implement quality solutions to shared goals.