Category: Recommended Reading

A Practice Brief for All School Personnel: Revisiting Family Involvement introduction

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

February 26, 2021

Revisiting Family Involvement: A Practice Brief for All School Personnel

Access this practice brief from the American Psychological Association. It offers insights for school personnel as they work with families to tackle the long-term effects of COVID-19 on learners. A highlight: Clear discussion with...

Before...Meetings in school. After...Meeting families where they are. Let's change the way we think about family engagement.

Communication / Community Partnerships / Early Childhood / Elementary School / Family Engagement Planning / For Schools / Middle & High School / Recommended Reading

February 16, 2021

Toolkit: How to “Reframe” family engagement in your communications

After three years of research, 72 focused interviews, and more than 6,000 participants, the research conducted by FrameWorks Institute provides clear recommendations on how to talk about family engagement so that people will understand...

Early Childhood / Elementary School / Middle & High School / Recommended Reading

February 12, 2021

Article: Reconsidering Bridges out of Poverty

The article “The Culture of Poverty Reloaded,” by Dr. Monique Redeaux, presents a new way of thinking about the work and writings of Education Consultant Ruby Payne. It challenges us to move beyond stereotypes...

For Families / Middle & High School / Recommended Reading / School Choice / Transitions

September 30, 2020

Blog: College and Beyond

“For many years…Dan Bisig has been providing timely advice to parents and students about college scholarships, career identification, college selection, application and essay review, college admissions timelines, test prep, college funding and much more....

$Reviewing the Family Math Literature cover sheet$

Academics / Early Childhood / For Schools / Learning at Home / Recommended Reading

September 3, 2020

How do families of young children teach early math concepts at home? A Research review from Purdue University

In this review of research from Purdue University, they share what they found by looking at large scale, long-term studies to identify the strongest predictors of children’s mathematics achievement. Their paper includes a summary...

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

August 12, 2020

The Process Through Which Family Engagement Leads to Positive Student Outcomes

Dr. Kathleen Hoover-Dempsey and Dr. Howard Sandler from Vanderbilt University developed a visual to explain their theory about the process through which family engagement leads to positive student outcomes. This visual is based on...

Front Cover of Flamboyan Foundation Beginning of Year Relationship Building Strategy Guide for Educators

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August 11, 2020

Four Ways to Build Relationships with Families At the Beginning of the School Year

In order to support families in their “5 essential roles to accelerate learning,” the Flamboyan Foundation has developed a 23 page guide focusing on four big ways educators can build strong relationships with families...

Hawaii 2020 Family Engagement Guide for Educators

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

July 31, 2020

“Virtual Family Engagement” Toolkit for Educators

This support guide developed by the Hawaii Statewide Family Engagement Center is designed to provide a foundation on how to connect with families in the new learning landscape. It describes and provides examples of...

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

June 23, 2020

Article: How Discrimination Shapes Parent-Teacher Communication

This article from The Atlantic discusses Dr. Cherng’s research on teachers’ communication practices with families. “Relying on a sample of about 10,000 predominantly public high-school sophomores, their parents, and teachers from the Education Longitudinal...

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

June 15, 2020

Recommended Reading: Effective Family Engagement in High School

The Flamboyan Foundation has a series of articles about family engagement in the high school years. “Adolescence. It’s a time of significant change for students. Their brains are changing – as are their hormones!...