Family Engagement in Systems Assessment Tool
Family Voices created the Family Engagement in Systems Tools that child- and family-serving organizations can use to plan, assess, and improve family engagement.
Family & Community Partnership
Family Engagement Toolkit: Continuous Improvement Through an Equity Lens
This toolkit provides districts and schools with practical planning and evaluation tools that support efforts to engage all families, particularly those of underrepresented and underserved students.
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Family Engagment in Schools: A Comprehensive Guide
This guide will equip you with the strategies and tools you need to meaningfully and continuously engage families in their children’s learning and development. By the end, you’ll understand common barriers to engaging families, equity-centered and technology-supported strategies for connecting with caregivers, and methods for enabling family engagement with survey data.
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Family School Relationship survey
A survey tool to help educators gather feedback and engage families in their school communities.
Disproportionality in Discipline (DDAS )
The DDAS framework is based on research evidence that there are eight malleable factors – that is, factors that schools can intentionally work to change – that are causally connected to disciplinary actions in general. At the heart of DDAS is a foundational belief that racial and ethnic disproportionality in discipline (REDD) results when these eight factors interact with implicit bias, racism, and a lack of cultural awareness and understanding. Therefore, by placing implicit bias, anti-racism, and the promotion of cultural awareness and understanding at the heart of the DDAS framework, REDD can be reduced or eliminated.
Dual Capacity
Based on existing research and best practices, the Dual Capacity-Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships is designed to support the development of family engagement strategies, policies, and programs. It is not a blueprint for engagement initiatives, which must be designed to fit the particular contexts in which they are carried out. Instead, the Framework should be seen as a compass, laying out the goals and conditions necessary to chart a path toward effective family engagement efforts that are linked to student achievement and school improvement.. Website with resources to understand the reasons why educators and families have struggled to build trusting and effective partnerships.
Equitable Community Engagement
Great Schools Partnership created resources and tools, which are broken up into three categories: introduction to community engagement, community conversations, and policy to help schools achieve equitable community engagement—an ongoing, two-way process of building relationships, working collaboratively to support all students, and sharing power—can result in transformative benefits for schools and their school communities.
Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education
Alex Shevrin Venet talks about her book, Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education on the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Family Engagement Framework for All
Framework around how to prioritize effective relationships to drive learning at every level. Includes information on the Dual Capacity-Building Framework so leaders can use family engagement plans in their schools and districts.
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain
Website of Dr. Zaretta Hammond that offers insight/answers to our collective and individual questions about how to help students become confident and competent learners. Highlights lessons learned in schools and classrooms with teachers who are successful with diverse students, focusing on how to take everyday strategies and practices and put them to work in classrooms to be more culturally responsive.