Family and Community Engagement:
“Family and community engagement comprises parents (broadly defined to refer to a child’s or youth’s primary caregiver) and youth-service providers, school staff, and community members working together to actively support and improve the academic achievement, social and behavioral development, and health of children, adolescents, and young adults.” (youth.gov)
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Includes findings from the Social and Emotional Learning Interventions Under the ESSA: Evidence Review, focusing specifically on what the review found related to family and community engagement, and a presentation from a district administrator. Hosted by REL Northeast & Islands SOURCE: REL Northeast & Islands |
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Partnerships by Design: Cultivating Effective and Meaningful School-Family-Community Partnerships This tool from Northwest REL includes forms, worksheets, and activities to assess the current state of family and community collaboration, create a vision for partnership, and set up an action plan. SOURCE: Northwest REL |
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Partners in Education: A Dual Capacity-Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships A framework for creating the right conditions for engagement and designing scaffolded family engagement initiatives that build capacity for both educators and families to partner to support students. Includes 3 school and district case studies. SOURCE: AIR |
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School-Family Partnership Strategies to Enhance Children’s Social, Emotional, and Academic Growth This brief provides educators with strategies and examples to build and nurture successful school-family partnerships and create an engaging and supportive climate for learning in school and at home. SOURCE: CASEL |
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Insights from the Caregiver Community: Building Authentic School and Family Partnerships This brief highlights key learnings from CASEL’s pilot SEL Dialogue Series for Caregiver-School Partnerships, which took place at a high school in Chicago, Ill., during Spring, 2022. It hones in on 4 insights towards creating authentic school-family partnerships, each with a corresponding set of recommendations for school leaders. SOURCE: CASEL |
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DRC Guidance Pages |
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Family and Community Partnerships Process Social and emotional learning (SEL) is reinforced and sustained when districts, families, and community partners align and work together. View process information here.... |
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Family and Community Partnerships Social and emotional learning (SEL) is reinforced and sustained when districts, families, and community partners align and work together.... |
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Promote Staff Trust, Community, and Efficacy When district staff feels a sense of community and shared purpose, they can engage more deeply in social and emotional learning (SEL).... |
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Promote Staff Trust, Community, and Efficacy Process When district staff feels a sense of community and shared purpose, they can engage more deeply in social and emotional learning (SEL). View process information here.... |
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Indicators of Districtwide SEL The ten indicators of schoolwide social and emotional learning (SEL) provide districts and schools with evidence of high-quality implementation in the classroom, school, family, and community.... |
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