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
Family Engagement Schools Capacity Building
Schools Drive Positive Change Through Parent-Teacher Relationships
The design-thinking process can be a step toward learning more about the real barriers that keep families from engaging in their children’s education.
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Family Engagement Schools Capacity Building
Balance of Power
As schools grow more racially diverse, D.C. nonprofit Kindred gives parents a place to tackle bias and be equal partners in improving opportunities for all students.
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Family Engagement Capacity Building Research
Family Engagement Playbook
The Family Engagement Playbook is a collection of promising research-based approaches to strengthen individual competencies and organizational support.
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Digital Media Family Engagement
Moving from Communication to Engagement: Unlocking the Potential of Underserved, Diverse Families
Learn how TalkingPoints, an educational technology nonprofit, is using AI as a strategic innovation for family engagement
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