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Senior Advisor msanders@umbc.edu 410.309.1275 |
Mavis G. Sanders, Ph.D. in education from Stanford University, is Professor of Education in the School of Educationat the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is the author of many publications on how schools and districts develop their partnership programs and effects of partnerships on African-American adolescents’ school success. Her most recent book, Principals Matter: A Guide to School, Family, and Community Partnerships (with Steven Sheldon, Corwin Press, 2009) focuses on principals’ leadership for developing effective partnership programs. She is co-author of School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, Third Edition (Epstein, et al., Corwin Press, 2009). Other books include Building School-Community Partnerships: Collaboration for Student Success, (Corwin Press, 2005), and Schooling Students Placed at Risk (LEA, 2000). Dr. Sanders’ interests include how schools define and develop meaningful school-community connections and how district leaders guide their schools to develop partnership programs. (For Dr. Sanders’ publications, see the Publications List in the section Research and Evaluation.)