Escola – família - comunidade: uma relação para o sucesso educativo

This article presents an approach to the relationship between schools and families and its correlation with school success, in a multifocal perspective, that is, in the generalized conviction of the urgency of establishing and developing a cooperative relationship, while awareness of vicissitudes, entropies and negative biases that have hindered the attainment a true involvement of family with school, towards fulfilling a mission that is recognized and arguably common to both institutions - success in school and personal development of children, adolescents and young. From an optimistic perspective, the potential of the positive development of this collaborative relationship is presented, as well as some strategies that have been pointed in literature.