Family Engagement
Families Learning provides families with the resources they need to be sure that everyone in the household is literate.
Getting Children Ready for Kindergarten is a guide for teachers and caregivers of Preschool children that was developed by the Arkansas Department of Human Services and the Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education. The guide can be used as a curriculum resource that discusses: expressiveness and language comprehension, approach to cognition, print knowledge, mathematics, and the social, emotional and physical development.
The Ready Freddy program was created in collaboration with Pittsburg Public schools and community members in an effort to increase school readiness in low income urban communities. The Ready Freddy Program’s success comes from the following elements: transition teams, kindergarten clubs, parent engagement, attendance, and welcoming schools.
This brief explores the various ways afterschool programs create linkages between school and home for students and parents. It is one in a series of Issue Briefs sponsored by the MetLife Foundation that addresses the benefits afterschool programs provide to children, families and communities.
This brief illustrates the needs of children in high-risk families and neighborhoods for quality after school programs.
Aspire Public Schools is a non-profit organization that prepares urban students for college, encourages parent participation in all aspects of school life by providing guidance about at-home support, school decision-making and supporting easy, open communication with teachers.
Center for the Improvement of Child Caring is a parenting and parenting education association that works to increase the likelihood that every child is raised effectively and humanely and offers parenting skill-building programs and numerous ways to bring family contribution into childhood care and educational systems.
Family Support America is a national resource that dedicates itself to providing information and support for families and parents regarding child abuse, alcoholism, adoption, disciplining children, divorce, work and other family related concerns.
The Global Family Research Project is an independent, entrepreneurial nonprofit organization that supports all families and communities in helping children find success in and out of school. We create a worldwide exchange of ideas to further the understanding and implementation of anywhere, anytime learning for all.
SEDL’s National Center for Family and Community Connections with Schools links people with research-based information and resources that they can use to effectively connect schools, families, and communities. The Center provides three primary types of resources to assist researchers, practitioners, families and community members with finding and utilizing research based information people need to take action and make connections between schools, families, and communities.
National Center for Fathering is a nonprofit, scientific and education organization that offers research-based training for men in fathering situations through seminars and small-group training, a daily radio-show and turn-key easily implemented fathering programs.
The National Parental Information and Resource Center’s (PIRC) list of 62 PIRCs by state.