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 Context
Family Engagement Survey
A survey tool to help educators gather feedback and engage families in their school communities.
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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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.
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 Affirming SEL
Culturally-affirming SEL asks critical questions of all of us: How do people relate to themselves? How do people relate to land? How do people relate to the community? Culturally-affirming SEL is about reclaiming — reclaiming our relationships with ourselves and our emotions, our ancestors, our spirituality, our creativity, our land, and our relationships with others.
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.