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June 6, 2020

Low Cost Attendance Intervention Involving Families

This article from the Harvard Graduate School of Education contains insight from research into low-cost interventions schools can use to work with families as allies to improve student attendance in the early grades. One...

Early Childhood / Elementary School / Family Engagement Planning / For Schools / Middle & High School / Recommended Reading / Social Emotional

June 1, 2020

Family Engagement as a Critical Practice for Anti-bias Education: Training for Schools from LearningforJustice.org

This self-guided learning website for educators from learningforjustice.org includes many resources. “Learning for Justice provides a range of materials—articles, modules, self-assessments, publications and more—that allow educators to improve their practice at their own pace.”...

Early Childhood / Elementary School / For Schools / Learning at Home / Middle & High School / Recommended Reading / Remote Learning for Fams / Remote Learning for Schools

April 28, 2020

Supporting Learning at Home: Resources for English Language Learners and Immigrants from Colorín Colorado

“Envision the strengths of families and work from that knowledge as you respond to this crisis.” – English Language Learning Administrator, Kristina Robertson The Colorín Colorado website is dedicated to helping young English language...

Academics / Early Childhood / Elementary School / Family Engagement Planning / For Schools / Learning at Home / Middle & High School / Recommended Reading / Remote Learning for Schools

April 14, 2020

7 Equity Considerations for Schools and Districts during Distance Learning

This information brief from the Southern Education Foundation contains 7 equity considerations for schools as they work with families to ensure that children and families have the resources they need to support learning and...

Early Childhood / Elementary School / For Families / For Schools / Middle & High School / Recommended Reading

April 9, 2020

Article: Parent/Caregiver Social Networks are Important to Student Success

Did you know that research has been done showing that families are more involved in their children’s education at home and at school if they have a strong social network of other families? We...

Communication / Early Childhood / Elementary School / For Schools / Middle & High School / Recommended Reading

April 6, 2020

Communication Example: How to Make Individual Phone Calls to Families

This Edutopia article has many good suggestions for how teachers can make phone calls home to families. “My biggest mistake was that I waited to make those calls. I was young and nervous. Once...

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Communication / Early Childhood / Elementary School / Family Engagement Planning / For Schools / Middle & High School / Recommended Reading / Remote Learning for Schools

April 6, 2020

“We’ve got to get this right”: Ideas for schools to support families during the pandemic

The following suggestions are from STEM Next’s recent blog post, “Supporting Families and COVID-19: We’ve Got to Get This Right.” Join their social media campaign to highlight your examples of these practices using the...

Child Well-being / Communication / Early Childhood / Elementary School / For Families / For Schools / Learning at Home / Middle & High School / Recommended Reading / Remote Learning for Fams / Social Emotional

March 17, 2020

How to talk to children and teens about Coronavirus

We found two helpful articles for you to use as you talk to your children/students about Coronavirus over the next few weeks: Age-specific tips for conversations with young children and teens from Psychology Today...

For Families / For Schools / Learning at Home / Middle & High School / Recommended Reading / Transitions

February 5, 2020

How Families Help Prepare their Children for Adulthood

This information brief from the National Collaborative on Workforce and Disability provides information about how families influence and support their children as they transition into adulthood. Their first example is that families… “Maintain high...

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February 4, 2020

A Kindergarten Teacher’s Guide to Supporting Family Involvement in Foundational Reading Skills

Families promote foundational reading skills with their children in many different spaces in their home and community, including daily conversation at mealtimes, bed and wake up times, during story time, in the grocery story,...

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