A Whole-Family Approach to Workforce Engagement
An argument for a multi-generational approach to human service agency work to include families and children. This will require coordination across agencies to best serve the whole family.
Developing Programs to Engage Parents of 1st Generation Students in STEM for Student Success
School and district administrators must support first generation students and their families to ensure action teams in classrooms and programs at all grade levels. States and community based organizations play roles in eliminating historic barriers as well.
Addressing Obstacles to Family Engagement
Educators are trying, but effective family engagement is going to necessitate state and federal policy and systems change. Authors review a few promising, yet nascent, stories of federal and statewide capacity building efforts to better equip educators and improve family engagement.
From Traditional Campaigns to Building a Movement: The Evolution of Family and Community Engagement-Based Advocacy
Family engagement efforts will be successful when the reliance on issue-focused campaigns shifts to utilizing design thinking and elevating family and community engagement.
GENIAL: Generating Engagement and New Initiatives for all Latinos
Learning from a two-day conference to best support Latinx students in informal science environments. Organizations must take risks beyond their status quo, which includes better supporting diverse staff members serving students in informal environments.
Science Achievement Gaps Begin Very Early, Persist, and are Largely Explained by Modifiable Factors
Discussion of possible factors affecting science achievement gaps, despite such limited studies since 1992. Many factors identified seem modifiable and recommendations to close science achievement gaps include legislative changes.
Family Matters: Making Family Engagement a Cornerstone of Literacy Education
Continuous engagement efforts of schools to engage families in literacy campaigns have proven effective for districts across the United States.
Promising Practices: Preparing Children of Immigrants in New York and Sweden
Global review of programs “that prepare students from immigrant backgrounds to be active and empowered actors in the multicultural, global contexts of their receiving nations.”
Parental Engagement: A Promise, Not a Program
Traditional reporting methods to parents, including report cards and parent-teacher conferences, need to be re-examined.
Academic Trajectories of Newcomer Immigrant Youth
A longitudinal study summary of three factors affecting newcomer immigrants’ academic trajectories. Using the stories of immigrant youth, the authors reviews the failures of existing methods and frameworks provided in the field.
School readiness and later achievement
A longitudinal study looking at the three key elements of school readiness: academic preparedness, ability to pay attention and socioemotional skills. Early math skills proved the strongest predictor of all three.
User’s Guide for Road Map Family Engagement Survey: Data Inquiry for Equitable Collaboration
A six part survey and user guide with examples and lessons learned from a pilot study within a seven-district cross-sector collaborative initiative. The research uses an equitable data approach to give priority to equity in the data collection methods and analysis.