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A Toolkit for Title I Parental Involvement Designed for educators who are implementing Title I, Part A parental involvement provisions, this toolkit includes detailed explanations of the provisions and 33 tools to help states, districts, and schools meet the requirements.
Beyond the Building: A Facilitation Guide for School, Family, and Community Connections This multimedia toolkit will help educators and community organizers understand and learn how to facilitate family and community involvement.
Building Support for Better Schools: Seven Steps to Engaging Hard-to-Reach Communities This practical guide is designed for educators, civic leaders, community organizers or anyone else interested in involving traditionally hard-to-reach communities.
Family and Community Involvement: Reaching Out to Diverse Populations This book is geared toward teachers, principals, and superintendents who want to develop meaningful parent and community involvement in culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
Thriving Together: Connecting Rural School Improvement and Community Development This book provides the background information and basic tools needed to start a joint school-community development effort.
What's Going on in My Child's School: A Parent's Guide to Good Schools This booklet is for parents who want to understand how and why schools are changing their approach. The booklet takes you inside classrooms that are using innovative approaches to learning—with impressive results.
The School-Family Connection: Looking at the Larger Picture, A Review of Current Literature This review of family involvement literature published from 2005 to 2008 explores a range of family involvement programs, challenges, needs, strategies, and contexts.
A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement This review of the research examines the growing evidence that family and community connections with schools make a difference in student success.
Diversity: School, Family, and Community Connections SEDL's third research synthesis in a series on family and community connections with schools focuses on race/ethnicity, culture (including language), and socioeconomic status.
Emerging Issues in School, Family, & Community Connections This research synthesis highlights critical areas of work in family and community connections with schools where clarification, agreement, and further development are needed.
Readiness: School, Family, & Community Connections The fourth research synthesis focusing on family and community connections with schools describes 48 research studies on the contextual factors associated with children's school readiness.
Policy Development Tools: Engaging Parents/Families in the School Community This resource, developed by SEDL’s Southeast Comprehensive Center (SECC), is a compendium of tools for promoting policies supporting parent and family involvement.
SEDL Letter, Volume XX, Number 2 (Aug. 2008): Afterschool, Family, and Community This issue of SEDL Letter is devoted to topics centered around afterschool and family and community involvement, with a focus on what the latest research shows.
SEDLetter, Volume XIV, Number 1 (Feb. 2002): Family and Community Connections with Schools This issue of SEDLetter focuses on family and community connections with schools, school-based mentoring, charter schools, and teacher education programs.

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Don't Miss This Opportunity

The U.S. Department of Education and its partners invite you to view the following webinar:
Data Driven: Making Student and School Data Accessible and Meaningful to Families
was held on August 10, 2010.

This is the third webinar in the series, Achieving Excellence and Innovation in Family, School, and Community Engagement, planned for 2010-2011.