This spotlight shows one school district’s actions in these areas, exploring first steps, successes, and challenges. We hope this example helps other districts and states develop their own vision for advancing climate change education and prepare their students for a more sustainable future.
SPOTLIGHT FROM THE FIELD: Berkeley Heights Township Public School District
This spotlight shows one school district’s actions in these areas, exploring first steps, successes, and challenges. We hope this example helps other districts and states develop their own vision for advancing climate change education and prepare their students for a more sustainable future.
Charting a Course to Equitable Collaboration: Learning from Parent Engagement Initiatives in the Road Map Project
“This multiple case study report represents the culmination of over a year of research by the University of Washington’s (UW) Equitable Parent-School Collaboration Research Project. The project sought to understand, document, and support promising district and neighborhood-based parent engagement efforts and indicators aimed at improving student outcomes and success within the context of a regional …
Equity in Family Engagement Toolkit
“Based on a Parent University collaboration with Academy of Music Production Education and Development (AMPED), Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS), and the National Center for Families Learning (NCFL), stakeholders produced this Equity in Family Engagement Toolkit to support educators as they engage with families toward student learning and achievement. Captured throughout 12 meetings, family voice …
Case study: Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township
This case study from the Brookings Institute’s Playbook for Family-School Engagement describes strategies for supporting newcomer families, including dedicated liaisons, welcome packets, and monthly newcomer meetings.
Case Study: Cajon Valley Union School District
This case study from the Brookings Institute’s Playbook for Family-School Engagement describes how one school district strategically hired multilingual staff to serve as community liaisons and support family engagement. The case study describes the process for hiring these caregivers, as well as the district’s 8-week parent university, family-teacher teams, annual family engagement survey, and Parent Teacher Home Visits.
Re-imagining and Humanizing Parent-Teacher Conversations and Interactions Through Role-Play
Role-playing can be used as a strategy to unpack and re-imagine powered relationships between teachers and marginalized families. This brief shares examples from the Los Angeles Unified School District, as well as guidance and recommended resources for other districts.
Building Relationships Bridging Cultures: Cultural Brokering in Family Engagement
“Drawing on previous research and a comparative case study, this brief describes cultural brokers—individuals who acts as bridges between families and schools—and three promising strategies they used to engage families, especially those farthest from opportunities, in their children’s education: parent capacity building; culturally-specific relationship building; and systemic capacity building. We offer recommendations for cultural brokering …
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Case Study: EdNavigator
This case study from the Brookings Institute’s Playbook for Family-School Engagement describes how EdNavigator, a nonprofit agency based in New Orleans, uses creative strategies to connect families and schools. Strategies include developing “congratulations packets” to build trust between families and schools and using navigators to help parents make decisions for their students.
Recasting Families and Communities as Co-Designers of Education in Tumultuous Times
“This policy memo, jointly released by the National Education Policy Center and the Family Leadership Design Collaborative, explores how justice-based approaches to family engagement can enable parents and families, particularly from communities of color, to contribute as fellow leaders in transforming schools and educational systems to better serve all children, families, and communities.” Authors: Ann …