“These updated National Standards for Family-School Partnerships are designed for multiple audiences, but especially: –School, district, and state education leaders who wish to ensure that their family-school partnership efforts are adequately implemented, funded, and monitored –PTA and other family and community leaders who want to know how to support and push their schools to better …
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How Your District Can Understand and Address Common Barriers to Engagement with Families Since the US Department issued the 1994 report on Strong Families, Strong Schools, the body of evidence showing that family engagement impacts learning has continued to grow. Schools that engage families find that their students have higher grades, show faster rates of …
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Why Do Family-School Relationships Matter? Schools that effectively engage families find that their students earn higher grades, score higher on test, develop better social skills, and are more likely to graduate. How Can Schools Measure Family-School Relationships? By asking parents and guardians to provide feedback through surveys, schools and districts can gather actionable data and …
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Students do better in school and in life when their families are engaged. A strong body of evidence is clear that family engagement, from birth through adolescence, contributes to a range of positive student outcomes.
This tool is to spark a conversation about how our assumptions can influence our actions. Use it to examine ways in which we can question ourselves or others when biased or negative beliefs about families emerge.
Collaboration Profiles Collaborating with others can help you implement programs or services that are beyond your current reach. Once you articulate the goals you are focusing on, you may be surprised to realize who could be a potential partner in your efforts.
About Family Engagement Lab Families rely on educators to communicate what their children are learning and how families can help at home. This necessary communication from teachers to families is often inadequate due to racial and cultural biases, in addition to language barriers. School systems need the tools and support to effectively engage families in …
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Intercultural Development Research Association Transforming education by putting children first. IDRA’s mission is to achieve equal educational opportunity for every child through strong public schools that prepare all students to access and succeed in college.
National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement. OUR MISSION: Advancing high-impact policies and practices for family, school, and community engagement to promote child development and improve student achievement.
“Systems Change is Education Philanthropy’s Only Exit Strategy: And Parent Power is What Will Change Systems” – Alex Cortez, New Profit Philanthropy will never transform education systems until it transforms its own relationships with parents and communities, and then supports them in exercising their innate power to change policies, practices and resource flows in education. …
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