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Springboard Connect

Springboard Connect is a web-app that provides tips, resources, and reminders to support parents as reading coaches to their children. Families can set goals, practice strategies, and track progress.

Parent Teacher Home Visits

Parent Teacher Home Visits build relationships, skills, and engagement for families, educators, and students from pre-K to 12th grade.

Strategies for Equitable Family Engagement

This resource provides an overview of evidence-based strategies that schools and districts may use to promote equitable family engagement practices.

Family Engagement: A Guide to Tools, Strategies, and Resources

TASC created this toolkit to help school planning teams refine their family engagement strategies and clarify what they are trying to do, why, and how. TASC includes a definition of “family engagement,” specific strategies and tactics that are rooted in the research on what works, and a curated collection of resources. In addition, they have also created a review of research literature as a companion resource.

The Eight Ps of Parent Engagement

In this article, “The Eight Ps of Parent Engagement”, written by neaToday, learn about different components of parent engagement.

Reducing Barriers to Family Engagement

This report on Reducing Barriers to Family Engagement offers targeted strategies for reducing and overcoming common challenges and obstacles to engaging families.

Families in Schools

Families in Schools envisions a public education system where students have all the opportunities and resources necessary to succeed in school and in life. We seek a workforce prepared for lifelong learning, and active engagement in the civic life of our society. Guided by this belief, the mission of Families In Schools is to involve parents and communities in their children’s education to achieve lifelong success.

Parent Guide to Early Reading Skills: Kindergarten to Grade 3

This parent guide of sample ideas was designed to help you grow your child into a strong reader. You don’t have to be a teacher or a reading specialist. But start as early as you can, even before kindergarten begins, and practice often. And don’t hold back from making it fun.

Center for Family and Community Engagement (CFACE)

The Center for Family and Community Engagement (CFACE) is a public service and research center at North Carolina State University, founded in 2008. The Center fosters family-community-academic partnerships that are relevant and responsive to families and communities by supporting community engagement, offering training and technical assistance, and providing evaluation and research.

National Family Engagement Alliance (NFEA)

The National Family Engagement Alliance (NFEA) provides resources and support to educate, equip, and mobilize individuals, families, and organizations to ensure student success.

Center for Effective Parenting

The Center for Effective Parenting positively impacts children by helping parents and those who work with parents enhance their knowledge, skills, and attitudes regarding parenting. The Center focuses on training, service, and research in order to have a broad impact in facilitating the healthy growth and development of children.

Australian Council of State School Organisations (ACSSO)

As the Australian Council of State School Organisations (ACSSO), they represent the interests of the families and communities of more than 2.4 million children attending government schools in Australia. They are one of the oldest continuously operating parent organizations in Australia and possibly the world. They were formed in 1947 to bring together various state and territory parent groups to develop national policies reflecting the way families wanted public education to be offered for their children.