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
Early Childhood Education Schools Family Engagement Capacity Building
Cambridge leaders launch math equity initiative
The city’s Family Policy Council is fostering community collaboration to build students’ — and families’ — confidence in math.
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Family Engagement Digital Media Capacity Building
Responding to COVID-19: Seven Practices to Guide Funding and Programming
STEM Next Opportunity fund reimagines family engagement in the changing environment of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Afterschool Family Engagement Schools Capacity Building
Science Museum Adapts Model to Bring Joy Through STEM to Families Hit Hard by COVID-19
The New York Hall of Science’s ‘hyper-local’ approach to family engagement builds ‘parents’ agency’ to support their children’s learning in STEM.
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Afterschool Family Engagement Digital Media Schools Capacity Building
Family Engagement Storytelling Project Stands at the 'Intersection of Media and Educational Justice'
Cambridge Agenda for Children’s Stories of Family Partnership offer a new approach to building capacity within the out-of-school-time community.
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