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Investing in Innovation (i3): $15-million grant project uses FAST as an innovative, targeted strategy for removing key barriers to school turnaround.
Funded through the U.S. Department of Education’s 2012 Investing in Innovation grant competition, also known as i3, the Investing in Family Engagement Project is part of a national initiative to provide funding to school districts and non-profit organizations to develop new approaches to longstanding challenges in education. Of more than 700 applicants from across the… READ MORE →
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OJJDP Bulletin: Families and Schools Together – Building Relationships (1999)
The U.S. Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) featured the FAST® Program in its November 1999 bulletin, written by Lynn McDonald and Heather Frey. The OJJDP also published a fact sheet by Lynn McDonald and Deborah Howard in December 1998. READ MORE →
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Meet the Founder: Dr. Lynn McDonald
Dr. Lynn McDonald is the creator of the internationally acclaimed family engagement program FAST® and the founder of the non-profit organization Families & Schools Together. Throughout a career that spans more than 40 years, Dr. McDonald has worked tirelessly to improve the well-being of children and families around the world using scientific research to build… READ MORE →