Includes current practices for
implementing family engagement strategies, best practices in family engagement, and the roles of different stakeholders in implementing best practices for family engagement.
In this edition of the EdCast, Connolly, co-founder and executive director at 1647, reflects on how to design and
implement family engagement strategies that support student learning and success in school.
1647 provides training, coaching, and ongoing data support to
implement family engagement strategies that lead to student learning and success in school.
Not exact matches
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Implement procedures for teachers, home visitors, and
family support staff to share information with each other, as appropriate, to ensure coordinated
family engagement strategies with children and
families in the classroom, home, and community.
Other pre-conference activities included a convening of state FCE directors and a session on community schools facilitated by the Coalition for Community Schools, emphasizing the important role of
family engagement in
implementing the community school
strategy.
The 1647 team trains and supports school leaders and teachers to
implement teacher home visits, academic partnerships, and other
family engagement strategies that directly support student learning and school success.
After
implementing their project or innovative
family engagement strategy, Fellows will convene with the Fellowship's facilitator who will guide them as they refine or iterate as needed, and collect quantitative and qualitative data.
FF: What would you tell a principal who's on the fence about
implementing family engagement high - impact
strategies within his / her school?
This bulletin provides an overview of the foundational elements of the
family engagement approach, followed by
strategies and promising practices for
implementing this approach at the case level, peer level, and systems level.
Practice Innovations in Child Welfare (PDF - 284 KB) Kanaya (2012) American Public Human Services Association Highlights various innovative child welfare practices that are being
implemented in different States by discussing common practice themes, including themes that focus on values and address client and
family engagement, client and
family centered, and cooperation and collaboration, and themes that focus on
strategies and address organizational capacity and service delivery.
In 2007, the FIRST 5 of Santa Clara County Commission joined forces with the Mexican American Community Services Agency to develop the Fatherhood / Male Collaborative, which seeks to develop programs and services that help fathers become positive influences for their
families and children, including parenting workshops, job training, and education, and child visitation and child support assistance.69 FIRST 5 of San Mateo County has
implemented a Dad's Workgroup, which consists of representatives from across state and county agencies to determine fatherhood
engagement strategies for at - risk fathers, as well as a «Daddy's Tool Bag» DVD that aims to provide fathers with the support and confidence to develop secure attachment with their young children.70
This program will provide states and localities with funding to
implement positive
family engagement strategies and activities that address the needs of incarcerated parents with minor children.
We've been
implementing the Strengthening
Families approach and developing resources based on our years of knowledge and expertise partnering with agencies in building effective parent
engagement strategies through the Strengthening
Families Illinois initiative.
Strategies:
Implement Regional Council
Family Violence Strategy; Develop / enhance community infrastructure; establish network of mentors; ensure adequate safe houses, review adequacy of emergency accommodation; establish awards system for students performing well; establish «Expo» during NADOC Week to highlight sports and activities and to provide health, life skills and careers information; identify review and monitor mechanisms for education in family budgeting, parenting, pre and post natal care, sexual health etc; consult with Dept of Families to develop better trust and engagement with communities and to increase the numbers of ATSI child care wo
Family Violence
Strategy; Develop / enhance community infrastructure; establish network of mentors; ensure adequate safe houses, review adequacy of emergency accommodation; establish awards system for students performing well; establish «Expo» during NADOC Week to highlight sports and activities and to provide health, life skills and careers information; identify review and monitor mechanisms for education in
family budgeting, parenting, pre and post natal care, sexual health etc; consult with Dept of Families to develop better trust and engagement with communities and to increase the numbers of ATSI child care wo
family budgeting, parenting, pre and post natal care, sexual health etc; consult with Dept of
Families to develop better trust and
engagement with communities and to increase the numbers of ATSI child care workers.
Provides an overview of the foundational elements of the
family engagement approach, followed by
strategies and promising practices for
implementing this approach at the case level, peer level, and systems level.