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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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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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.
Alex Shevrin Venet talks about her book, Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education on the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
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.
Resource supports K-12 educators in growing their understanding of social justice principles. Each pillar – Curriculum & Instruction, Culture & Climate, Leadership, and Family & Community Engagment – has strategies that schools and districts can integrate into their practice.
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.
The CR-S framework helps educators create student-centered learning environments that: affirm racial, linguistic and cultural identities; prepare students for rigor and independent learning, develop students’ abilities to connect across lines of difference; elevate historically marginalized voices; and empower students as agents of social change.
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The resources below can help spur much-needed discussion around implicit bias and systemic racism, but they can also help inspire us all to enact the changes that will create a more just society.These resources can help spur much-needed discussion around implicit bias and systemic racism, but they can also help inspire us all to enact the changes that will create a more just society.
Explores approaches to centering student voice, building authentic relationships and cultivating community with Molly Josephs, the creator of This Teenage Life, a youth-driven, story-sharing podcast that started as a school club.
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