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Resources for Educators

Dual Capacity-Building Framework | SEDL

Retrieved from https://www2.ed.gov/documents/family-community/partners-education.pdf

 

Effective Strategies for Engaging Parents: Real-Life Experiences that Make a Difference

Retrieved from https://www.expandinglearning.org/expandingminds

 

Family Engagement: Resource Roundup

Retrieved from https://www.edutopia.org/home-school-connections-resources

 

Family, School & Community Engagement – Newsletter from the U.S. Department of Education

Retrieved from https://www2.ed.gov/news/newsletters/engagingfamilies/index.html

 

Leading by Convening: A Blueprint for Authentic Engagement 

Retrieved from http://www.ideapartnership.org/documents/NovUploads/Blueprint USB/NASDSE Leading by Convening Book.pdf

 

PTA National Standards for Family School Partnerships: Implementation Guide | PTA

Retrieved from https://www.pta.org/docs/default-source/files/runyourpta/national-standards/national_standards_implementation_guide.pdf

 

The Center for Family Engagement 

Retrieved from https://www.pta.org/center-for-family-engagement

 

Ten Ideas for Engaging Parents

Retrieved from http://www.nea.org/tools/56945.htm

Why Family Engagement Matters for Student and School Success 

(in English, Spanish and Mandarin)

Retrieved from https://www.pta.org/docs/default-source/files/cfe/family-engagement-matters.pdf

Working Systemically in Action: Engaging Family & Community | SEDL

Retrieved from http://www.sedl.org/pubs/catalog/items/family126.html

 

Resources for Families

Family Engagement Resources

Retrieved from https://bealearninghero.org/family-engagement-resources/

 

Helping Your Child Succeed in School — Helping Your Child Series

(in English and Spanish)

Retrieved from https://www2.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/succeed/index.html

 

Helping Your Child With Homework

(in English and Spanish)

Retrieved from https://www2.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/homework/index.html

 

IDEA Parents and Families Page

Retrieved from https://sites.ed.gov/idea/parents-families/

 

National Standards for Family-School Partnerships – National PTA

Retrieved from https://www.pta.org/home/run-your-pta/National-Standards-for-Family-School-Partnerships

 

Parenting 

Retrieved from https://www.zerotothree.org/parenting

 

Social Media – @FamiliesatED   and #EngagedFamilies

 

Research on Family Engagement

Allensworth, E, S. Ponisciak, and C. Mazzeo. (2009). The Schools Teachers Leave: Teacher Mobility in Chicago Public Schools. Chicago, IL: Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago Urban Education Institute. 

Retrieved from https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/schools-teachers-leave-teacher-mobility-chicago-public-schools

 

Caspe, M., Lopez, M. E., & Hanebutt, R. (2019). The Family Engagement Playbook.

https://medium.com/familyengagementplaybook

 

Henderson, A. T., & Mapp, K. L. (2002). A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement. Annual Synthesis 2002. National Center for Family and Community Connections with Schools. 

Retrieved from https://www.sedl.org/connections/resources/evidence.pdf

 

Houtenville, A. and K.S. Conway. (2008). Parental Effort, School Resources, and Student Achievement. Journal of Human Resources, XLIII. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. 

Retrieved from http://www.nspra.org/files/docs/conway-may08.pdf

 

O’Neil, M., Volmert, A., & Gerstein Pineau, M. (2019). From Caring to Conditions: Strategies for effectively communicating about family, school, and community engagement (A FrameWorks Framing Brief ). Washington, DC: FrameWorks Institute.

Retrieved from https://nationalalliance.nafsce.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/NAFSCE-Message-Brief-From-Caring-to-Conditions-WEB-version.pdf

 

Pineau, M.G., L’Hôte, E., Davis, C., & Volmert, A. (2018). Beyond caring: Mapping the gaps between expert, public, practitioner, and policymaker understandings of family, school, and community engagement. Washington, DC: FrameWorks Institute.

Retrieved from http://frameworksinstitute.org/assets/files/PDF/beyond-caring-nafsce-map-the-gaps-2018.pdf