Family and Community Involvement in Student Learning
Guides and Toolkits
Many educators recognize the importance of family and community involvement in school improvement efforts and are seeking to reframe the way they engage these groups. This publication, which supplements Working Systemically in Action: A Facilitator’s Guide, provides practical guidance for educators who are seeking to engage family and community members in systemic school improvement efforts.
A Practitioner's Guide: Building and Managing Quality Afterschool Programs is designed to share with you the practices that can help you cover it all—great programming, terrific staff, positive relationships, and plenty of resources to lead and sustain successful afterschool programs.
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.
This resource, developed by SEDL’s Southeast Comprehensive Center (SECC), is a compendium of tools for promoting policies supporting parent and family involvement.
This online toolkit provides resources for developing fun, innovative, and academically enriching activities for afterschool and expanded learning programs. The toolkit includes promising practices and sample lessons in the arts, literacy, math, science, technology, and homework help.
The seven promising practices in afterschool for math identified in the Afterschool Training Toolkit are as follows: Finding Math ;Math Centers; Math Games; Math Projects; Math Tools; Math Tutoring; and Family Connections. By “promising” practices, we mean recommended methods that have been observed to increase student achievement. Each practice is built on youth development principles and research on effective mathematics instruction. At their core, the Afterschool Training Toolkit materials are designed to illustrate techniques and activities that leverage student curiosity to make mathematics in afterschool both enjoyable and relevant. This guide provides professional development ideas for each practice.
Beyond the Building: A Facilitation Guide for School, Family, and Community Connections (2006)
This multimedia toolkit will help educators and community organizers understand and learn how to facilitate family and community involvement.
This multimedia toolkit will help educators and community organizers understand and learn how to facilitate family and community involvement.
This practical guide is designed for educators, civic leaders, community organizers or anyone else interested in involving traditionally hard-to-reach communities.
This multi-media kit is a set of concepts, activities, and resources that individuals, school districts and other organizations can use to develop a partnership between home, school, community, and students at the local level.
This book is geared toward teachers, principals, and superintendents who want to develop meaningful parent and community involvement in culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
Esta guía es práctica y es diseñada para maestros, líderes cívicos, organizadores de la comunidad o cualquier persona que le interesa involucrar a las comunidades que tradicionalmente no participan en las escuelas.
Este libro está dirigido a maestros, directores y superintendentes que desean generar el involucramiento significativo de los padres de familia y comunidad por parte de miembros comunitarios de diverso origen cultural y linguístico.
This booklet is designed for anyone who is interested in bringing state policymakers and their constituents together to dialogue and deliberate about public education.
This booklet is designed to serve as a handy guide to participating with constituents in community dialogues on education.
This book provides the background information and basic tools needed to start a joint school-community development effort.
Esta publicación cubre varios procesos de la deliberación pœblica con respecto a la reforma escolar y asuntos de diversidad.
Building Home, School, and Community Partnerships (1995)
These three handbooks identify a successful process and key issues in the development of home, school, and community partnerships, and provide lessons learned from five demonstration sites.
These three handbooks identify a successful process and key issues in the development of home, school, and community partnerships, and provide lessons learned from five demonstration sites.
This document focuses on what a community can do to support families with young children.
