| Resource Library Overview (March 2023) | This presentation provides a brief over of the Institute resource library and a basic tutorial for how to use it. | | institute presentations | | |
| Iceberg Concept of Culture | The iceberg model of culture developed by Edward T. Hall (1976) divides culture into two components: external/surface culture (10%) and internal/deep culture (90%). Resource links to a graphic shared by the University of Central Arkansas. | | background institute | culture | |
| Lesson Plan: Bridging Race, Class, and Culture | Lesson plan from the professional development session “Bridging Race, Class, and Culture” | | bridging-race-class-and-culture institute lesson-plans professional-development | best-practices black-families equity latino-families race undocumented-families | families-schools-together-fast |
| Powerpoint: Bridging Race, Class, and Culture | This powerpoint accompanies the professional development session Bridging Race, Class, and Culture | | bridging-race-class-and-culture presentations professional-development institute | best-practices black-families equity latino-families race undocumented-families | families-schools-together-fast |
| Critical Practices for Anti-biased Education | Includes best practices for school/district-level anti-biased education across instruction, classroom culture, family and community engagement, and teacher leadership, and outlines the Teaching Tolerance Anti-bias Framework and Social Justice Standards including identity, diversity, justice, and action. | | bridging-race-class-and-culture coaching institute professional-development toolkits | best-practices changing-mindsets equity relationship-building | teaching-tolerance |
| Family Engagement, Diverse Families, and an Integrated Review of the Literature | Focused on Early Childhood, article includes definition of family engagement, describes ways to strengthen family/school relationships, and provides evidence-based practices to strengthen family engagement and improve learning for all children. | | intro-to-family-engagement coaching institute professional-development toolkits | best-practices early-childhood family-school-partnerships intro-to-family-engagement | linda-halgunseth |
| Courageous Conversations about Race (protocol) | Protocol to support adults in having conversations necessary to make progress on difficult subjects such as race, racism, ethnicity, and privilege; includes agreements and definitions to guide conversations. | | bridging-race-class-and-culture coaching institute professional-development toolkits | best-practices changing-mindsets equity race | curtis-linton glenn-e-singleton |
| Engaging with Parents and Families: Intentionality around Issues of Race | Presentation exploring the impact of race and racism on work between families and schools; guides a discussion of how to explore the impact of the 4 domains of power (structural, disciplinary, cultural, interpersonal) in work of engaging with families. | | bridging-race-class-and-culture institute presentations professional-development | best-practices black-families changing-mindsets equity race relationship-building | daren-graves |
| Building School Partnerships With Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families | Case study on district in MA; district created program (Partnership for Achieving Literacy) to increase understanding and build relationships between teachers and families and support learning for culturally and linguistically diverse students/families. Article discusses implications and successes. | | bridging-race-class-and-culture coaching institute professional-development research | best-practices equity relationship-building student-achievement | michaela-w-colombo phi |
| 5 Tips for Organizing Parents to Fight for Racial Equity at Their Children’s Schools | Best practices for organizing parents, includes 5 tips and quick summary for each. | | bridging-race-class-and-culture family-empowerment-and-advocacy coaching institute professional-development toolkits | advocacy best-practices equity relationship-building | embrace-race kindred |
| Culturally Responsive and Asset-Based Strategies for Family Engagement in Odds-Beating Secondary Schools | Two case studies of secondary schools in NY w. odds-beating graduation outcomes, where educators draw on local resources and engage family members in culturally responsive and collaborative ways with sensitivities to power imbalances, show implications for overcoming barriers to family engagement in communities more broadly. | | coaching institute research | best-practices equity k-12-schools | aaron-leo hal-a-lawson kristen-c-wilcox |
| FAST Institute Handbook 2022-23 | FAST Institute Handbook for MPS Parent Coordinators, revised September 16, 2022. | | forms institute | | families-schools-together-fast |
| Strategies for Preparing Educators To Enhance the Involvement of Diverse Families in Their Children’s Education | This article from 2005 reinforces the importance of preparing teachers for engaging with families, providing specific strategies teachers can use. | | background institute research | changing-mindsets family-school-partnerships k-12-schools teachers | nancy-chavkin |
| School-Family Relations In Context: Parent and Teacher Perceptions of Parent Involvement | This study addressed teachers’ and parents’ perceptions of the meanings and functions of parent involvement. | | background institute research | empowering-parents family-school-partnerships teachers | |
| Professional Development Session Feedback Form | Link to Google Form for parent coordinators to complete after each professional development session. | | forms institute professional-development | | families-schools-together-fast |
| Coaching Session Feedback Form | Link to Google Form for coaches to complete after each coaching session. | | coaching forms institute | | families-schools-together-fast |
| Social Class Differences in Family-School Relationships: The Importance of Cultural Capital | This seminal 1987 article looks at the way social class and cultural capital provide parents with unequal access to schools and teachers. | | bridging-race-class-and-culture background institute research professional-development | equity k-12-schools social-capital | annette-lareau |
| Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race | Beverly Daniel Tatum, renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about racial identities is essential to communicate across racial and ethnic divides and pursue antiracism. These topics have become more urgent as the national conversation about race is increasingly acrimonious. Essential reading for anyone seeking to … | | bridging-race-class-and-culture background institute research professional-development | equity race | beverly-daniel-tatum |
| The Impact of Covid-19 on Cleveland’s Education Landscape | This article looks at the effects of Covid-19 on early childhood education in Cleveland and how the district responded to this crisis. | | background institute research | best-practices covid-19 early-childhood k-12-schools | |
| 2021 Social and Emotional Learning Report | This survey of educators, administrators, parents shares their opinions on the importance of SEL, effect of COVID on wellbeing, and how schools can support kids. | | background institute research | covid-19 family-school-partnerships k-12-schools school-administrators social-emotional-learning teachers | |
| Toolkit of Resources for Engaging Families and the Community as Partners in Education – Part 1: Building an understanding of family and community engagement | This toolkit shows educators how their beliefs about family engagement influence their interactions and how this might support or hinder family engagement with schools. It is the first of a 4-part series focusing on helping educators build awareness of how their beliefs and assumptions about family engagement influence their interactions … | | background institute toolkits | changing-mindsets family-school-partnerships k-12-schools teachers | |
| The School Leader Poll: Building Your School-wide Approach to Family Engagement | This outlines the 5 Essential Roles families play in their children’s education: high expectations, monitor performance, support learning at home, guide their path, and advocate their needs. | | background institute research | family-school-partnerships k-12-schools school-administrators | flamboyan-foundation |
| How Principals Affect Students and Schools: A Systematic Synthesis of Two Decades of Research | This report summarizes what researchers have learned about the connection between school leadership and student achievement in the US since 2000. | | background institute research | k-12-schools school-administrators student-achievement | |
| Trauma-Informed School Strategies during COVID-19 | Post-Covid-19: how to help schools transform their practices by using a trauma-informed approach to help children feel safe, supported, and ready to learn. | | background institute research | covid-19 trauma | |
| Stress And Burnout Pose Threat Of Educator Shortages | A post-Covid survey of teachers revealed a high level of stress and burnout and an increase in likelihood of leaving the profession earlier than planned. | | background institute research | attendance covid-19 educator-burnout social-emotional-learning teachers | |
| Reaching toward recovery: Fall 2021 survey of teachers and administrators | This shares insights from surveys of school administrators and teachers about the effect of Covid on education and schools. | | background institute research | covid-19 school-administrators teachers | |
| Going Beyond the Headlines: Responding to What Parents, Teachers & Principals Really Want – Findings from Surveys of K-12 Parents, Teachers & Principals | This survey looks at educators, administrators and parents and how they all view family engagement in schools post-Covid. | | background institute research | covid-19 school-administrators teachers | learning-heroes |
| Walking the Walk: Portraits in Leadership for Family Engagement in Urban Schools | This study highlights four school administrators table for their proactive, community-oriented approach to family engagement. | | background institute research | best-practices family-school-partnerships school-administrators | susan-auerbach |
| Understanding Latino Parental Involvement in Education: Perceptions, Expectations, and Recommendations | This study looked at Latino parents’ perceptions of their participation in the education of their children, and teachers’ expectations of parental involvement. | | background institute research | best-practices changing-mindsets family-school-partnerships latino-families student-achievement | |
| Bringing Attendance Home: Engaging Parents in Preventing Chronic Absence | Attendance Works created this toolkit to support parent engagement as part of a comprehensive approach to reducing chronic absence. | | background institute toolkits | attendance best-practices family-school-partnerships k-12-schools | attendance-works |
| Asking, Listening, and Learning: Toward a more thorough method of inquiry in home-school relations. | The article describes a way to train new teachers to communicate with and understand families, reframing the home-school relationship. | | background institute research | changing-mindsets communication family-school-partnerships teachers | |
| How to Expand Your Awareness, Manage Unconscious Bias and Work for Equity | Handout lists resources for further learning around unconscious bias including books, videos, articles, and internal, interpersonal, and institutional recommended practices. | | bridging-race-class-and-culture background handouts-institute institute professional-development | best-practices changing-mindsets equity race | dr-fran-kaplan reggie-jackson |
| The Impact of a Collaborative Family Involvement Program on Latino Families and Children’s Educational Performance | This study found that family workshops & teacher training resulted in improvement in family–teacher contact, involvement at school, and quality of relationships. | | background institute research | best-practices equity family-school-partnerships latino-families relationship-building student-achievement | |
| Barriers to parental involvement in their children’s education | This looks at potential barriers to parental involvement, including those for minority and disabled parents, and offers suggestions to overcome these barriers. | | background institute research | equity family-school-partnerships intro-to-family-engagement relationship-building | |
| Reinforcing Deficit, Journeying Toward Equity: Cultural Brokering in Family Engagement Initiatives | Schools value traditional involvement and disregard the cultural/social resources of nondominant families; this provides new ideas of engagement for all families. | | bridging-race-class-and-culture background institute research professional-development | equity family-school-partnerships social-capital | ann-ishimaru |
| One Size Does Not Fit All: Understanding Parent Engagement in the Contexts of Work, Family, and Public Schooling | This looks at how parents and educators in a low-income school think about family engagement and how school, work, and family affect how and why parents engage. | | background institute research | changing-mindsets family-school-partnerships k-12-schools teachers | linn-posey-maddox |
| Perils and Promises: Middle-Class Parental Involvement in Urban Schools | This study of parental involvement find that middle-class parents bring many resources to urban schools and can be change agents. But the social context matters. | | background institute research | community empowering-parents social-capital | |
| Parent Engagement and School Readiness: Effects of the Getting Ready Intervention on Preschool Children’s Social-Emotional Competencies | This study looks at parent engagement that facilitates school readiness in preschool kids and its effectiveness at building social emotional competencies. | | background institute research | early-childhood family-school-partnerships social-emotional-learning | |
| How Family, School, and Community Engagement Can Improve Student Achievement and Influence School Reform (Lit Review) | This Lit Review focuses on the key components of promising family-school partnerships, and how those practices involve families and communities. | | background institute research | community intro-to-family-engagement k-12-schools parent-leadership social-capital | salllie-mae-foundation |
| Can We Talk? Using Community–Based Participatory Action Research to Build Family and School Partnerships with Families of Color | This examines schools experiences of families of color. Findings: lack of cultural competency, stereotyping, and racial disproportionality in school discipline. | | bridging-race-class-and-culture background institute research professional-development | black-families equity family-school-partnerships student-achievement | |
| Engaging Families at the Secondary Level: An Underused Resource for Student Success | This article reviews the literature on parent engagement at the secondary level, focusing on its importance to academics, high school completion rates, and SEL. | | background institute research | high-schools intro-to-family-engagement k-12-schools social-emotional-learning student-achievement | jensen-minke |
| Why Do Parents Become Involved? Research Findings and Implications | This article offers suggestions to deepens an understanding of parents’ motivations for involvement and school-family practices to strengthen effectiveness. | | background institute research | changing-mindsets equity k-12-schools social-capital student-achievement | et-al hoover-dempsey |
| Inner-City African American Parental Involvement in Elementary Schools: Getting Beyond Urban Legends of Apathy | The authors propose practical strategies for increasing inner-city African American parental involvement as a means of increasing parental participation and school success among inner-city African American families. | | bridging-race-class-and-culture background institute research professional-development | empowering-parents equity k-12-schools | abul-adil farmer |
| Redefining Family Engagement for Student Success | Discusses expanded definition of family engagement to inspire policy/programmatic shifts and investments. Family engagement should be defined as systemic, across home and school, and viewed as a shared responsibility, continuous across a child’s life, traverses multiple settings where children learn. | | background handouts-institute institute research | best-practices equity k-12-schools student-achievement | harvard-family-research-project |
| Embracing a New Normal: Toward a More Liberatory Approach to Family Engagement | Family engagement is recognized as critical for equitable and excellent education, but stakeholders struggle with creating/sustaining effective family engagement strategies. This report covers the Dual Capacity-Building Framework, calling on educators to prioritize family engagement at all levels, specifically family-school partnerships built on a framework of trust and respect, and provides … | | background institute research | best-practices dual-capacity-framework equity k-12-schools | carnegie-corporation-of-new-york eyal-bergman karen-mapp |
| ‘Damned if you do, damned if you don’t:’ Black parents’ racial realist school engagement | Study introduces ‘Racial Realist Parent Engagement’ through a study of engagement experiences of 16 Black parents. This framework shifts theory, policy, practice to a more complex understanding of the purposes/benefits of parent engagement for Black and Brown families and demands expansive racial justice policy for student learning. | | bridging-race-class-and-culture background institute research professional-development | best-practices black-families equity | jennifer-l-mccarthy-foubert |
| “Con Mucho Sacrificio, We Give Them Everything We Can”: The Strategic Day-to-Day Sacrifices of Undocumented Latina/o Parents | Explores how undocumented Latina/o parents engage in their children’s higher ed. goals. In-depth interviews show undocumented parents make “sacrificios” for their children that come at a more personal cost due to undocumented status. Findings are essential for re-conceptualizing research/practice to consider the impact of immigration status on Latina/o parental engagement. | | bridging-race-class-and-culture background institute research professional-development | best-practices equity undocumented-families | dr-stephany-cuevas |
| Organizing Schools for Improvement | Research on Chicago schools shows improving elementary schools requires orchestrated action across five areas: Coherent instructional guidance system, professional capacity, strong parent-community-school ties, student-centered learning climate, leadership drives change. | | background institute research | best-practices k-12-schools student-achievement | anthony-bryk |
| The Dual Capacity Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships | Handout includes the Dual Capacity-Building Framework as well as more detailed explanation of the challenge, conditions, policy/program goals, and outcomes that comprise the framework. | | background handouts-institute institute research | dual-capacity-framework | karen-mapp |
| Empowering Marginalized Parents: An Emerging Parent Empowerment Model for School Counselors | This article describes a parent empowerment model focused on how school counselors facilitate empowerment of parents, especially marginalized parents, to support and advocate for their children. | | background institute research | advocacy empowering-parents equity | bryan fletcher kim |
| Ecologies of Parental Engagement in Urban Education | This article encourages researchers to consider how parents understand the hows and whys of their engagement, and how engagement relates to parents’ experiences and actions both inside and out of the school community. | | background institute research | equity k-12-schools social-capital | calabrese-barton drake perez |
| Parent Involvement Facilitators: Unlocking Social Capital Wealth | This provides an overview of a family outreach intervention that supports student retention in school through a school–home communication link. It employs staff to facilitate family engagement in schools and help parents build their sense of efficacy to support their children’s success in school. | | background institute research | advocacy empowering-parents parent-leadership | margaret-m-ferrara |
| Meeting, knowing, and affirming Spanish-speaking immigrant families through successful culturally responsive family engagement | This article explains and demonstrates the successful use of culturally responsive pedagogy when applied to the development of school-family partnerships with families from immigrant backgrounds. | | bridging-race-class-and-culture background institute research professional-development | equity | gabriel rojas-becker |
| Engaging Families to Achieve Racial Equity in Schools | Presentation covering the definitions of and history of race in the US, the impact of systemic racism in schools, strategies for disrupting racism in schools, and broad implications for engaging families. | | bridging-race-class-and-culture background institute professional-development | best-practices equity k-12-schools race | daren-graves ed-d |
| Relationships Toward Justice: Sharing Stories from the Learning Community Charter School | Case study examining family engagement best practices at Learning Community Charter School. | | creating-a-welcoming-environment background institute presentations professional-development | best-practices k-12-schools relationship-building | |
| Family Engagement in Education: Creating Effective Home and School Partnerships for Student Success | Introductory presentation from Dr. Karen Mapp’s FAM Institute; includes discussion of the current state of family engagement and the Dual-Capacity Framework. | | intro-to-family-engagement background institute professional-development | dual-capacity-framework k-12-schools | karen-mapp |
| Equity Issues in Parental and Community Involvement in Schools: What Teacher Educators Need to Know | This 2013 research article by Banqueando-Lopez et al. examines family engagement from an equity lens. It expands the notion of parent involvement and sees parents from nondominant groups as productive and engaged participants in communities and schools. | | background institute research | empowering-parents equity k-12-schools race | |
| Identifying barriers: Creating solutions to improve family engagement | This journal article by Baker, et al (2016) reframes notions of parent involvement (being present in the building) to parent engagement. It looks at both staff and parent perspectives of the best ways to engage parents. | | background institute research | best-practices changing-mindsets empowering-parents intro-to-family-engagement teachers | |
| Recording: Collaborating with the Community – 1/10/23 | Recording of the professional development session presented to Milwaukee Public Schools on January 10, 2023. | | collaborating-with-the-community institute recordings professional-development | | families-schools-together-fast |
| Recording: Family Empowerment and Advocacy – 2/14/23 | Recording of the professional development session presented to Milwaukee Public Schools on February 14, 2023. | | family-empowerment-and-advocacy institute recordings professional-development | | families-schools-together-fast |
| Science of Writing for Busy Families | Presentation that includes best practices on how to communicate with families via email, text, etc. Presentation includes examples to highlight what to do and not to do. | | effective-communication-strategies background institute presentations professional-development | best-practices communication | todd-rodgers |
| Writing for Busy Families: Six Principles | Handout containing best practices around communicating with families | | effective-communication-strategies background handouts-institute institute professional-development | best-practices communication | jessica-lasky-fink todd-rodgers |
| Apoyo Sacrificial, Sacrificing Support: Understanding the Impact of an Undocumented Immigration Status on Family Engagement | Presentation that provides information on: understanding the contemporary context of undocumented immigration, reviewing research on the impact of an undocumented status on lives of immigrants and their families, and how to consider one’s own family engagement practice accounting for this impact. | | background institute presentations research | best-practices equity undocumented-families | dr-stephany-cuevas |
| Measuring Family and Community Engagement | Presentation focused on data collection including: types of data used to measure family and community (FACE) engagement, what to consider when choosing FACE measures, and how to develop a vision for measuring FACE in your organizations | | background institute presentations | assessing-your-teams-progress data-collection | brian-rainville |
| Taking It To the Next Level: Strengthening and Sustaining Family Engagement through Integrated, Systemic Practice | Discusses systemic family engagement as a district-level approach, with several districts cited as examples; discusses building capacity for systemic engagement through promising models, with further cited examples and concludes with recommendations for districts, leaders, and state education agencies. | | background institute | best-practices building-capacity dual-capacity-framework k-12-schools | institute-for-educational-leadership |
| CMSD (Cleveland Metropolitan School District) Engagement Capacity-Building Framework | Focuses on four critical capacity-building areas: capabilities, cognition, connections and confidence with descriptions, objectives, and key indicators for growth. | | background institute | dual-capacity-framework k-12-schools | local-school-district |
| Recording: Empowering Families at Parent-Teacher Conferences – 10/12/2022 | Recording of the professional development session presented to Milwaukee Public Schools on October 12, 2022. | | empowering-families-at-parent-teacher-conferences institute recordings professional-development | | families-schools-together-fast |
| Recording: Introduction to Family Engagement – 8/30/22 | Recording of the professional development session presented to Milwaukee Public Schools on August 30, 2022. | | intro-to-family-engagement institute professional-development | | families-schools-together-fast |
| Coaching as Professional Learning: Guidelines for Implementing Effective Coaching Systems | This document is a synthesis of research on coaching in educational settings. The contents include information and resources that support effective coaching practices in a variety of educational contexts, as well as Guiding Questions for building and strengthening effective coaching systems. | | background coaching institute research | best-practices coaching k-12-schools | state-department-of-education |
| Unlocking the “How:” Designing Family Engagement Strategies that Lead to School Success | This report looks at data from a 2021 national survey of parents, teachers, and principals focusing on educational priorities in the wake of Covid. | | background institute research | best-practices dual-capacity-framework intro-to-family-engagement principals student-achievement teachers | learning-heroes |
| Supporting Parent Success: Applying what we know to what we do | This brief shares best practices in supporting parent success, promoting a two-generation approach to improving reading proficiency for children in low-income families. | | background institute research | advocacy best-practices dual-capacity-framework empowering-parents intro-to-family-engagement student-achievement | |
| Success Story: COFI Scales Parent Engagement Work to New Communities and Constituencies | This report of lessons learned explains how well the COFI model works to engage parents and to build a powerful voice for parents on policy and systems change. | | background institute research | advocacy best-practices parent-leadership | |
| Joining Together to Create a Bold Vision for Next Generation Family Engagement: Engaging Families to Transform Education | This report, prepared by the Global Family Research Project for the Carnegie Corporation of New York, provides case studies of organizations that are engaging in promising practices in family engagement. | | background institute research | best-practices changing-mindsets intro-to-family-engagement k-12-schools | global-family-research-project |
| Toolkit: Funds of Knowledge | This toolkit describes funds of knowledge and answers how it applies to teaching and learning, as well as how educators can identity their students’ funds of knowledge, integrate it into classroom practices, and record their observations and ideas. | | background institute toolkits | best-practices teachers | |
| Hidden in Plain Sight: A Way Forward for Equity-Centered Family Engagement | This presentation from Learning Heroes provides data from a 2022 survey of parents and teachers regarding equity-focused family engagement. | | background institute presentations research | advocacy empowering-parents equity intro-to-family-engagement k-12-schools principals relational-trust student-achievement teachers | learning-heroes |
| Parent Engagement Toolkit for Educators from Boston Public Schools | This toolkit focuses on helping teachers improve and increase their family engagement practices, providing practical strategies for teachers. This toolkit inspired FAST to create the Readiness Assessment. | | background coaching institute toolkits | assessing-your-teams-progress building-family-engagement-team changing-mindsets coaching intro-to-family-engagement student-achievement teachers | local-school-district |
| Collaborating to Transform and Improve Education Systems: A playbook for family-school engagement | This playbook, written by the Brookings Foundation, provides examples of new ways schools and organizations around the world are engaging in family engagement post-Covid. | | background institute research toolkits | changing-mindsets communication intro-to-family-engagement k-12-schools teachers | |
| Family Engagement Game Brings Theory Into Practice | The Family Engagement Game, described here by the Global Family Research Project, could be used as a part of PD or during coaching sessions to help practitioners learn more about family engagement strategies. | | intro-to-family-engagement background coaching institute professional-development | coaching professional-development | global-family-research-project |
| Fact Sheet: Relational Trust in Schools | This fact sheet provides an overview relational trust in schools, based on seminal research by Bryk and Schneider. | | background fact-sheets-institute institute research | k-12-schools relational-trust relationship-building | anthony-bryk |
| Fact Sheet: Research Shows Home-School Communication is Forever Changed | This resource from the Global Family Research Project provides data about how communication between school and home has changed due to the Covid pandemic. | | background fact-sheets-institute institute | communication k-12-schools | global-family-research-project |
| Fact Sheet: Setting the Stage: The Family Engagement Field | This document from the Flamboyan Foundation provides an overview of family engagement research. | | background fact-sheets-institute institute research | intro-to-family-engagement student-achievement | flamboyan-foundation |
| Fact Sheet: Tips for collaborating with other families for educational justice | This fact sheet provides tips on collaborating with other families for educational justice. It was written by family engagement researcher Ann Ishimaru and was shared through the organization Embrace Race. | | background fact-sheets-institute institute research | equity race | ann-ishimaru embrace-race |
| Beyond the Building: A Facilitation Guide for School, Family, and Community Connections | This 2005 toolkit by the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory is designed to help integrate information from current research into new and existing family engagement efforts. These materials could be particularly useful when coaching family engagement teams. | | background coaching institute toolkits | assessing-your-teams-progress building-family-engagement-team coaching intro-to-family-engagement | federal-research-organization |
| FAST Institute Literature Review | This literature review provides an overview of the family engagement research upon which the FAST Institute was built. | | institute research | best-practices coaching empowering-parents equity fast-values intro-to-family-engagement professional-development relational-trust relationship-building school-climate social-capital | families-schools-together-fast |
| Dual Capacity-Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships (short version) | This document is the abridged version of the Dual Capacity Building Framework for family school partnerships, written by Dr. Karen Mapp. | | background institute research | best-practices dual-capacity-framework intro-to-family-engagement | karen-mapp |
| Partners in Education: A Dual Capacity-Building Framework for Family–School Partnerships | This research paper, by Dr. Karen Mapp, presents a framework for designing family engagement initiatives that build capacity among educators and families to partner with one another around student success. It provides the background research for the Dual Capacity-Building Framework, designed by Dr. Mapp. | | background institute research | best-practices dual-capacity-framework intro-to-family-engagement | karen-mapp |
| FAST Family Engagement Values | This handout, used in many of the professional development sessions, provides the 10 family engagement values of FAST. | | handouts-institute institute | best-practices fast-values intro-to-family-engagement relational-trust relationship-building school-climate | families-schools-together-fast |
| Lesson Plan: Family Empowerment and Advocacy | This is a lesson plan from the professional development session, “Family empowerment and advocacy.” | | family-empowerment-and-advocacy institute professional-development | advocacy empowering-parents | families-schools-together-fast |
| Powerpoint: Family Empowerment and Advocacy | This powerpoint goes with the professional development session, “Family empowerment and advocacy.” | | family-empowerment-and-advocacy institute presentations professional-development | advocacy empowering-parents | families-schools-together-fast |
| Lesson Plan: Collaborating with the Community | Lesson plan for the professional development session “Collaborating with the Community.” | | collaborating-with-the-community institute lesson-plans professional-development | community | families-schools-together-fast |
| Powerpoint: Collaborating with the Community | This powerpoint is from the professional development session “Collaborating with the Community.” | | collaborating-with-the-community institute professional-development | community | families-schools-together-fast |
| Lesson Plan: Effective Communication Strategies | Lesson plan from the professional development session “Effective Communication Strategies.” | | effective-communication-strategies institute lesson-plans professional-development | communication | families-schools-together-fast |
| Powerpoint: Effective Communication Strategies | Powerpoint from the professional development session “Effective Communication Strategies.” | | effective-communication-strategies institute presentations professional-development | communication | families-schools-together-fast |
| Coaching as Professional Development: A Powerful Change Accelerator | This 2015 article looks at how coaching is a form of professional development and can be used to help change educators’ mindsets. | | background coaching institute | changing-mindsets coaching professional-development | journalist-reporter |
| Frustrating, exhausting but worth it: School principals tell what their jobs are like now | This article, from 2022, provides context for how K-12 schools have changed due to Covid, the struggles principals face in ensuring schools are adequately staffed, and many other challenges. | | background institute | k-12-schools principals school-climate | journalist-reporter |
| Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Coaching Toolkit: Keeping SEL at the Center | The purpose of this toolkit is to help support educators as they implement SEL practices in their classrooms. It also offers guidance in using coaching to support changing behaviors and mindsets, and provides a framework for seeing coaching through an SEL lens. | | background coaching institute toolkits | best-practices social-emotional-learning | american-institutes-of-research |
| Policies that Support Professional Development in an Era of Reform | Article by researcher Linda Darling-Hammond makes the case for a new type of professional development for teachers that focuses on developing educators’ capacity and shifting their mindsets. | | background institute research | best-practices k-12-schools professional-development teachers | linda-darling-hammond |
| Lesson Plan: Creating a Welcoming School Climate | This lesson plan is from the professional development session “Creating a welcoming climate,” which is focused on helping family engagement professionals and other school staff build strong relationships with families in their school as a way of building a welcoming school climate. | | creating-a-welcoming-environment institute professional-development | relational-trust relationship-building school-climate | families-schools-together-fast |
| Powerpoint: Creating a Welcoming School Climate | This powerpoint is from the professional development session “Creating a welcoming climate,” which is focused on helping family engagement professionals and other school staff build strong relationships with families in their school as a way of building a welcoming school climate. | | creating-a-welcoming-environment institute professional-development | relational-trust relationship-building school-climate | families-schools-together-fast |
| Lesson Plan: About the FAST Institute for MPS | This professional development session explains the goals and objectives of the FAST Institute for MPS, provides an overview of the activities that will occur throughout this project, and invites participants to examine their own beliefs about family engagement. | | intro-to-family-engagement institute lesson-plans readiness-assessment professional-development | fast-values | families-schools-together-fast |
| Powerpoint: About the FAST Institute for MPS | This professional development session explains the goals and objectives of the FAST Institute for MPS, provides an overview of the activities that will occur throughout this project, and invites participants to examine their own beliefs about family engagement. | | intro-to-family-engagement institute readiness-assessment professional-development | fast-values intro-to-family-engagement | families-schools-together-fast |
| Lesson Plan: Empowering Families at Parent-Teacher Conferences | Lesson plan from the professional development session “Empowering families at parent-teacher conferences.” | | empowering-families-at-parent-teacher-conferences institute lesson-plans professional-development | empowering-parents parent-teacher-conferences relational-trust relationship-building | families-schools-together-fast |
| Powerpoint: Empowering Families at Parent-Teacher Conferences | This power point accompanies the professional development session “Empowering Families at Parent-Teacher Conferences.” | | empowering-families-at-parent-teacher-conferences institute presentations professional-development | empowering-parents parent-teacher-conferences relational-trust relationship-building | families-schools-together-fast |
| Powerpoint: Intro to Family Engagement | This powerpoint is from the Intro to Family Engagement professional development session, focused on family engagement professionals. | | intro-to-family-engagement institute professional-development | | families-schools-together-fast |
| Readiness Assessment Survey | Readiness Assessment to be taken at the start and end of the year by members of the family engagement team (family engagement professional, administrator, teacher, parents, etc.). | | forms institute readiness-assessment | assessing-your-teams-progress | families-schools-together-fast |
| Lesson Plan: Intro to Family Engagement | Professional development session focusing on introduction to family engagement designed for parent coordinators/family engagement professionals. | | intro-to-family-engagement institute professional-development | | families-schools-together-fast |
| Family Engagement Toolkit: Continuous Improvement through an Equity Lens | This foundational document takes readers through some of the important first steps as they are assessing their school’s family engagement work, creating a family engagement team, developing an action plan, and then assessing their team’s progress around family engagement. There is a specific emphasis on building trusting relationships, connecting family … | | background institute toolkits | assessing-your-teams-progress building-family-engagement-team creating-an-action-plan | state-department-of-education |
