Schools Afterschool

In this post, Heather Weiss and Linda Jacobson capture the ways that schools and community organizations involve children and youth in improving family engagement.

Schools Family Engagement Research

Developed from the report titled “Joining Together to Create a Bold Vision for Next-Generation Family Engagement,” GFRP and the National PTA have created a resource to support more equitable and effective approaches to family, school, and community partnerships.

Family Engagement Capacity Building

Learn more about our family engagement game for change and pilot the game in your own library.

Family Engagement Schools Capacity Building

With nearly 1,000 users so far, the game is helping educators and others discover ways to be ‘partners and champions’ for families

Family Engagement Capacity Building

The Family Engagement Game demonstrates a need for interactive and participatory strategies for practitioners engaging families across the ecology of learning.

Family Engagement Capacity Building Research

The Family Engagement Playbook is a collection of promising research-based approaches to strengthen individual competencies and organizational support.

Family Engagement Research

STEM Next Opportunity Fund responds to GFRP's paper commissioned by the Carnegie Corporation of NY highlighting the importance of family engagement in STEM learning.  

Family Engagement

On April 25th at 2pm EST, GFRP's Heather Weiss opened a conversation about promising family engagement innovations for family engagement innovations. 

Family Engagement Schools Research

These abstracts showcase student work from a doctoral course at Hunter College School of Education-The City University of New York titled, "Enhancing Achievement through Family and Community Relationships."

Afterschool Family Engagement Research

Structured, school-based events improve parent network quality and could be especially helpful for Latinx families.

Afterschool Family Engagement Digital Media Schools Capacity Building

Cambridge Agenda for Children’s Stories of Family Partnership offer a new approach to building capacity within the out-of-school-time community.

Libraries Family Engagement Global Capacity Building

Diane Banks describes Toronto Public Library’s process for developing a family engagement strategy.