Overview
Learning begins in families and continues throughout a child’s growth toward adulthood.
Family engagement is a shared responsibility of family members to contribute to a child’s learning and development, and of schools and communities to ensure families have the tools they need to support their children’s success in and out of school.
Global Family Research Project
● Provides leadership and a vision for how schools and other community organizations can improve family engagement efforts.
● Conducts research on the innovative and successful ways that policymakers, funders, and practitioners work toward more equitable learning and close opportunity gaps by reaching underserved families.
● Connects family engagement professionals with the knowledge and resources that help them strengthen partnerships with families to benefit children.
Featured Resources
Afterschool Family Engagement Research
New Study Confirms Benefits of Connecting Parents with Each Other to Build Social Capital
Structured, school-based events improve parent network quality and could be especially helpful for Latinx families.
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Family Engagement Capacity Building
Family Engagement Game Brings Theory Into Practice
The Family Engagement Game demonstrates a need for interactive and participatory strategies for practitioners engaging families across the ecology of learning.
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Family Engagement Early Childhood Education Libraries Capacity Building
A Holiday Letter from GFRP
We end the year with gratitude for all the hard and inspiring work so many families, schools, and communities are doing.
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Family Engagement Early Childhood Education Schools Capacity Building
Family engagement professionals become first responders, develop creative ways to connect with students and parents
As remote learning continues, parent coordinators take the lead in reimagining services to ‘meet families where they are’ and adapt to an ever-changing fall semester.
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