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10 Tips for Parents Who Choose to Stay Put
http://www.centerforparentleadership.org/10_tips.pdf
10 Tips for Parents Who Choose To Stay Put
This is an easy-to-read, four-page guide targeted at parents who, for a variety of reasons, choose to have their child stay in his or her current school rather than transfer to another one.
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A New Wave of Evidence: Key Findings
http://www.sedl.org/connections/resources/Keyfindings-reference.pdf
This short handout lists the eight key findings from A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family and Community Connections on Student Achievement. It cites specific studies supporting each key finding, and provides a full reference list for those studies.
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All Pro Dad
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Improve your child's school
You're concerned about what your kids are exposed to the forty hours a week they're at school. You know the school could be improved with more parental involvement, but are unsure of where to start. We have the perfect solution - All Pro Dad's Days and iMOM Mornings.
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All Your Parents = AYP: Communicate
http://www.famlit.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=gtJWJdMQIsE&b=2042215&ct=2779955
Communication between schools and families must be a two-way street. Too often parents miss the messages that come from school — whether written or verbal. Perhaps the note was left in the book bag, but maybe it was discarded because it wasn’t written in the parent’s language, or the parent didn’t have the skills to read and understand it. How do schools best support parents’ differing communication styles? How do parents become more comfortable communicating with schools and teachers? How do parents communicate messages to children about the importance of school?
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All Your Parents = AYP: Develop Leaders and Mentors
http://www.famlit.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=gtJWJdMQIsE&b=2042215&ct=2780011
Both teachers and parents can, and should be, leaders and mentors in a parent involvement partnership. As leadership and mentorship are built within the school or district, sustainability is magnified, schools meet their goals, and children succeed. Parents and teachers feel success as well.
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All Your Parents = AYP: Develop Relationships
http://www.famlit.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=gtJWJdMQIsE&b=2042215&ct=2779969
Without trusting relationships, partnerships often fail. Building relationships is critical for parent-teacher collaboration. In order for parents and teachers to be full partners, rapport and trust must be developed. Relationship building takes time-between parents and teachers, but also between parents and children-particularly if the relationship contains new or changing expectations.
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All Your Parents = AYP: Engage in Learning
http://www.famlit.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=gtJWJdMQIsE&b=2042215&ct=2779981
Once teachers and parents have information, they usually feel more confident in their abilities. Professional development for teachers and training for parents should mirror each other and have the same end in mind — children’s academic success.
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All Your Parents = AYP: Provide Information and Strategies
http://www.famlit.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=gtJWJdMQIsE&b=2042215&ct=2779991
Many teachers are not prepared to work with parents and need new skills to develop partnerships with families. In the same respect, parents often are not prepared to work with teachers. Additionally, they sometimes struggle with the best ways to work with their children.
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All Your Parents = AYP: Set the Climate
http://www.famlit.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=gtJWJdMQIsE&b=2042215&ct=2780021
Districts, schools and teachers set the climate for parent involvement. Parents need to know that they are valued members of the school community and that they are equal supporters of their children’s academic success. Parents, in turn, must set the climate for learning at home, demonstrating that education is important.
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Building Relationship for Student Success: School-Family-Community Partnerships
http://www.nwrel.org/partnerships/pubs/building.html
This site draws from current research and school experiences to give teachers, parents, and administrators examples of successful partnership strategies. Teachers, parents, and staff at six high-poverty, high-minority schools were interviewed to provide their perspective on what research-based methods look like in practice.
The strategies used by the schools can be grouped into three themes:
1) Using curriculum that makes connections between students' lives and their families and communities; 2) Giving families tools to support their children (such as teaching them strategies for enhancing learning at home, explaining school policies and expectations, and linking with human services organizations); 3) Building mutual, respectful relationships .
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Building Relationships for Student Success
http://www.nwrel.org/partnerships/cloak/booklet2.pdf
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL) provides this guidebook, Building Relationship for Student Success: School-Family-Community Partnerships and Student Achievement in the Northwest, which includes a review of best practices and many practical suggestions to engage families in their children's successful learning.
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Comer School Development Program(SDP)
http://info.med.yale.edu/comer/research_evaluation/schoolclimatesurvey.html
The school climate surveys for sale that the Comer Schools have developed measure concepts such as achievement motivation and academic focus as well as factors that tap into the social climate of the school. The survey respondents are asked to think about consistent patterns in their current school relationships before answering the questions. The report groups the questions together under broad categories that ared referred to as 'variables.' These categories enable schools to frame questions about their school climate, such as "What does it mean for our school that the students perceive the school as having strong Order and Discipline but average Student-Teacher Relations?"
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CYFERnet
http://cyfernet.org
This site brings together the best children, youth, and family resources of all the public land-grant univiersities in the country. Materials are carefully reviwed by college and university faculty.
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CYFERnet - Community
http://cyfernet.org/index.php?c=4
CYFERnet's Community section offers resources on developing community and individual capacity to build stronger communities. It also provides information on mobilizing community members and decision makers to make communities safer and healthier places to live.
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CYFERNET - Parent/Family
http://cyfernet.org/index.php?c=3
CYFERnet's Parent/Family secion provides resources on what parents can do to raise healthy children; how families can cope, adapt and become strong; how couples can build healthy relationships; how adults can cope with life span issues; and what educators can do to support parents and families.
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Diversity: School, Family, and Community Connections
http://www.sedl.org/connections/resources/diversity-synthesis.pdf
This downloadable PDF file focuses specifically on three categories: race or ethnicity, culture (including language), and socioeconomic status. The report explores barriers to involvement for minotrity and low-income families, strategies that have been used to address these barriers, and recommendations that local educational leaders can adapt to address their specific needs. It is based on a review of over 64 studies.
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Education Trust: Parent and Community Engagement
http://www.edtrust.org/
The Education Trust is committed to providing parents and community-based agencies with the tools and help they need to make the most of the reform efforts that are underway in most communities. There is more information available these days than ever before. Use this site to help make the most of it for your kids.
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Families and Schools Together (FAST)
http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/fast/
Families & Schools Together (FAST) is a multifamily group intervention designed to build protective factors for children and empower parents to be the primary prevention agents for their own children. Although develeoped by Dr. Lynn McDonald in 1988 for at-risk youth and their families, FAST is now offered as a universal model to children, ages 3 through 18. It became an evidence-based model in 2002.
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Family and Community Engagement Survey – Field Test Version
http://www.idra.org/images/stories/survey.pdf
This survey can be used by teachers, administrators and parents to assess a school’s effectiveness in partnering with families and communities. It is a useful tool for planning strategies that are clustered around four domains: (a) student achievement; (b) access and equity; (c) organizational support; and (d) quality of interaction. The questions and ideas used in the guide are gleaned from the literature on effective partnering with communities and families.
(Also available in Spanish)
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Family Friendly Schools
http://www.familyfriendlyschools.com/
Dr. Steve Constantino is the nation's leading practitioner in family engagement. He elevated one of the lowest performing schools in Virginia to Time Magazine's High School of the Year. Now his practical, measurable approach to family engagement and parent involvement is being made available to education leaders across the country through Family Friendly Schools and the Engage! All Families Institute. Isn't it time for all children to start learning?
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Family Involvement & Beyond: School-based Child and Family Support Programs
http://www.nwrel.org/cfc/publications/pdf/beyond_family.pdf
In this paper, research on resiliency, attachment theory, culturally responsive teaching, school reform, and characteristics of school-based child and family support programs in elementary schools are discussed. Promising practices based on the research are highlighted. Throughout the document are references to materials suitable for handouts in workshops. These handouts, located in the final section, include synopese of a concept, summaries of research, and suggestions for designing learning experiences for young children and their families
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Family Involvement in Early Childhood Education
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/fine/resources/research/earlychildhood.html
This research brief synthesizes the latest research that demonstrates how family involvement contributes to young children's learning and development. The brief summarizes the latest evidence base on effective involvement—specifically, the research studies that link family involvement in early childhood to outcomes and programs that have been evaluated to show what works.
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Family Involvement in Elementary School Children's Education
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/fine/resources/research/elementary.html
This FINE research brief synthesizes the latest research that demonstrates how family involvement contributes to elementary-school-age children's learning and development. The brief summarizes the latest evidence base on effective involvement—specifically, the research studies that link family involvement during the elementary school years to outcomes and programs that have been evaluated to show what works.
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Family Involvement in Middle and High School Students' Education
http://www.hfrp.org/family-involvement/publications-resources/
This research brief synthesizes the latest research that demonstrates how family involvement contributes to adolescents' learning and development. The brief summarizes the latest evidence base on effective involvement—specifically, the research studies that link family involvement during the middle and high school years to outcomes and programs that have been evaluated to show what works.
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Family Policy That Works (ISU Extension)
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Publications/SP54.pdf
Iowa State University Extension's Family Policy That Works program helps decision makers, family professionals, and citizens increase their knowledge of family social issues and the process for developing policies to address these issues. Community decision makers acquire the skills to collaboratively design community service delivery systems and policies that improve outcomes for families. Citizens learn how to participate in public policy decisions that affect their lives.
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Family-Friendly School Environment
http://www.floridapartnership.usf.edu/pdfs/CFFS/CFFSHandout2_Brochure.pdf
This survey developed by the Florida PIRC (Parent information Resource Center) provides a school with a check list to identify the level of "family frendliness" of the school
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Family-Friendly Tip Sheets
http://www.floridapartnership.usf.edu/resources/tips.htm
The Florida Partnership for Family Involvement in Education provides tip sheets and handouts on engaging families in improving achievement.
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Family-School Partnership Lab
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Peabody/family-school////scaledescriptions.html
Kathleen Hoover-Dempsey and Howard Sandler provide scales/ survey/ questionnaires they have used in studies of the parental involvement process. They provide tools to assess parents, students, and teachers in regard to parent involvement.
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FINE: Introduction to The Storybook Corner
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/fine/resources/storybook/
This section of the Harvard Family Research Project website is a unique new source for information on using children's storybooks with family involvement themes to engage families in their children's education and encourage family–school–community partnerships, all while supporting literacy. The Storybook Corner offers resources to help educators, families, and those who work with families promote the awareness, discussion, and practice of family involvement in children's education in a wide range of settings. Launched in partnership with Reading Is Fundamental, Storybook Corner provides a list of storybooks with family involvement themes and tools for using the storybooks.
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Focus on Families! How to Build and Support Family-Centered Practices in After School
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/hfrp/projects/afterschool/resources/families/
This new comprehensive, easy-to-read guide to understanding how to engage families in after school programs is a critical resource for after school providers looking to create or expand an existing family engagement program. Program leaders, local decision makers, funders, and others interested in promoting good family involvement practice in many different settings will also find the guide vital to their work. The guide, produced in partnership with BOSTnet and United Way of Massachusetts Bay, offers a research base for why family engagement matters, concrete program strategies for engaging families, case studies of promising family engagement efforts, and an evaluation tool for improving family engagement practices.
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George Lucas Educational Foundation: Parent Involvement
http://www.edutopia.org/parent-involvement-reaps-big-benefits
The George Lucas Educational Foundation provides parents with articles, research summaries, video clips, and resources to support their involvement in their child's education. It also includes interviews with school professionals about how to build partnerships and families.
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GPS Communications Toolkit
http://www.iowa.gov/educate/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=829&Itemid=916
The Iowa Department of Education offers the GPS (Grow! Prepare! Succeed) Toolkit to support the high school improvement initiatives that high schools are implementing and plan to continue including: increased graduation requirements, increased rigor in coursework, better relationships between school staff and students and community, and better planning tools to help students prepare for success beyond high school.
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Improving Education Impact through Family Engagement - A Review and Planning Guide
http://www.idra.org/images/stories/impact.pdf
This tool helps to foster meaningful and lasting educational impact through mechanisms for engagement with parents and families. It provides helpful ideas to address the most significant barriers to parent involvement that have been reported in the literature in K-12 programs. The guide gives ideas for each barrier to achieve a greater vision of engagement and offers planning guides to see how your school is addressing each barrier and what can be done for the future. It can be used with school personnel in conjunction with parents. (Available in English and Spanish)
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Indiana Academy for Parent Leadership
http://www.fscp.org/index.asp?p=57
The Indiana Partnerships Center seeks to improve student academic achievement by actively engaging parents in the education of their children. While the Indiana Partnerships Center employs a number of strategies to accomplish this mission, one of its most effective is the Indiana Academy for Parent Leadership©, supported by United Water. A booklet is available for download.
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Iowa PTA
http://iowapta.org/
Iowa PTA works to promote the health, education and welfare of children and youth in homes, schools and communities, and to develop partnerships between parents, educators and the general public.
Iowa PTA serves PTA leaders and members throughout Iowa, presenting workshops and offering printed and video resources, quarterly bulletins, monthly electronic newsletters, and maintaining this website to assist PTAs in the important work they do on behalf of children. State PTA board members attend PTA meetings throughout the state to do presentations and provide training or support for PTA units and councils in their own hometown.
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Iowa Youth Survey
http://www.iowayouthsurvey.org/
In the fall of 1999, 2002 and 2005, students in the 6th, 8th, and 11th grades across the state of Iowa answered questions about their attitudes and experiences regarding substance abuse and violence, and their perceptions of their peer, family, school, and neighborhood/community environments. This site summarizes those surveys.
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