Family School Relationship survey
A survey tool to help educators gather feedback and engage families in their school communities.
Trauma Responsive
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.
Cultivating Positive Teacher–Student Relationships: Preliminary Evaluation of the Establish–Maintain–Restore (EMR) Method
Strong teacher–student relationships have long been considered a foundational aspect of a positive school experience. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the effects of the establish–maintain–restore (EMR) method for improving teacher–student relationships and students’ classroom behavior while providing elementary teachers with structured professional development and follow-up support.
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.
Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework
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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Discussing Race, Racism and Police Violence
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.
Creating a Relationship Map
Use this Google doc to create a tool to start the Establishment, Maintaining, Restoring (EMR) Phase with students. EMR is a specific framework for understanding student-teacher relationships in which three dimensions of relationships are highlighted: establishing the relationship through positive interactions, maintaining the relationship with continued support and encouragement, and restoring the relationships as needed.