National Standards for Family-School Partnerships: An Implementation Guide.
This guide walks through six standards to build successful family-school-community partnerships. A review of each standard and its relevance, tips to support implementation and success stories are included for each standard.
Data Inquiry for Equitable Collaboration: The Case of Neighborhood House’s Data Carousel
This study acknowledges the traditional role that data collection has played as a vehicle for demonstrating compliance, in addition it a new, meaningful role that it can play when collection efforts are approached collaboratively with families.
Building Relationships, Bridging Cultures: Cultural Brokering in Family Engagement
Research around the important role of “cultural brokers” play between families and schools. Cultural brokers serve as bridges and translators between family and schools and can adopt strategies for building parent and family capacity.
Measuring Family Engagement, Strengthening the Learning Triangle
Education reforms that do not touch on the relationship between students, teachers and parents will fail to be successful. National education nonprofit, PowerMyLearning, has created Family Playlists to engage the whole triangle.
The Diverse Immigrant Student Experience: What Does It Mean for Teaching?
The author asks: “With one in four students in our classrooms coming from an immigrant-headed family, how should teachers be thinking about that student experience?” Immigrant students arrive in school with different past experiences that must be factored when designing family engagement strategies.
Breaking Down Barriers Between Educators and Families Through Technology
Technology can play a powerful role in connecting families, students and educators and thought and effort must be placed into developing accessible communications vehicles and strategies. Technology can be especially useful at breaking down barriers for immigrant families as the author recounts their own education experience.
Creating Creators: How Can We Enhance Creativity in Education Systems?
Short reflections from the field in favor of prioritizing creativity as central activities for learning.
American Students and Families are Getting Lost in an Avalanche of Confusing Information
It’s confusing, at best, to get a clear picture of how students are performing in school; parents get lost and overwhelmed by the huge amount of data that is available, all intended to track student progress.
Joining Together to Create a Bold Vision for Next Generation Family Engagement Engaging Families to Transform Education
This paper is intended to stimulate work that can result in “next generation family engagement” that involves aligned, strategic and systemic approaches to family and community engagement from a child’s birth to young adulthood.
Changing Mindsets, Changing Outcomes: A New Paradigm for Teacher-Parent Partnerships
An essay urging educators to speak honestly to families and ensure that their messages are properly heard. A pilot program to train teachers in Las Vegas is reviewed.
Necessary but Not Sufficient: The Role of Policy for Advancing Programs of School, Family and Community Partnerships
School and district policies, as well as federal and state legislation, affect the quality of school based partnerships. Review an analysis of data from 347 in 21 districts to identify different ways policy mandates are implemented.
The Impact of Parental Involvement on Children’s Education
Parental involvement is one of the most important predictors of students’ success. This report reviews the importance of family engagement from the early years all the way up to age 16.