Sentences with phrase «urban family engagement»

Resources focus on such topics as literacy, school climate, special populations, physical activity, military alliances, health and safety, male engagement, special education, and urban family engagement.

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Her research reflects urban school reform initiatives such as the community school model, democratic community engagement, culturally relevant family engagement, and the intersection of housing and educational policy, particularly as it impacts vulnerable families.

Urban school boards put a priority on parental and community engagement, with the goal of supporting parents and families in need and rallying community resources to help students.

Her current, collaborative projects include studies of Head Start children's literacy learning and teacher communities (the EPIC study), family engagement, and parent involvement; young fathers in urban settings; health and educational disparities within low - income communities; children of incarcerated parents; and intergenerational learning within African - American and Latino families.

Auerbach's qualitative study of four urban «exemplar» school administrators who actively pursued family and community engagement as part of their commitment to socially just leadership details practices used to build bridges to disenfranchised Latino communities.

Walking the walk: Portraits in leadership for family engagement in urban schools.

Included in this strand are sessions that examine trending topics in social justice, community engagement, and issues affecting rural and urban communities as they apply to family engagement.

The Oakland Reads 2020 Baseline Report, written by Urban Strategies Council, focuses on third grade reading success as well as the four Oakland Reads levers: school readiness, school attendance, summer learning, and family engagement.

Since 2008, suburbs have experienced larger and faster increases in poverty than either urban or rural areas.24 This significant shift in the location and demographics of children and families dealing with financial stress makes necessary a reevaluation of the current engagement and service delivery systems that may not meet this emerging need.25

Purpose / Focus: The purpose of this study was to investigate what happens when low - performing urban schools bring high - stakes accountability pressures to parent programs, to shed light on possible new directions in family engagement.