Family engagement can last all school year long, at every grade level. Learn how back-to-school time is just the kickoff for family-school partnership.
See how family engagement shifts across a student’s educational journey, with research-based strategies for families and educators at each stage.
How do we keep parenting students connected to people, resources, and opportunities throughout their entire educational and career journey?
What changes when we treat family engagement not as something schools do for families, but as a way education systems partner with families?
State policies often make it difficult to meet the needs of students in alternative education. With our model, coalitions can lay the foundation for effective, meaningful policy change.
Lindsay Camp, a lead preschool teacher in Leavenworth, WA, shares her welcoming and inclusive approach to engaging all families, all year long.
This self-assessment helps districts plan an effective, systemwide approach to engaging families.
The City of Seattle partnered with families to fund organizations working on family-school partnerships. Here’s what we learned from the family-led process.
Our Collaborative Analysis Process engages community members in making meaning of data and setting priorities. Together, we build buy-in and momentum for change.
The Equity Model for Youth Mentoring—developed by Dr. Kristian Jones, EDNW’s Dr. Grace Gowdy, and Dr. Aisha Griffith—is guided by consideration of social justice and structural oppression.
Strategic Data Project Fellows Annie Hemphill and Chasya Hiebert reflect on what data is, why it matters, and how we can use it to help all learners.
Queer youth often seek out chosen family to help them in school and life. What can we learn from this part of queer culture about how to support young people?
Strong, trusting relationships between educators and families are foundational to educational equity. Indeed, students, families, schools, and communities benefit from strong family-school partnerships.
Researcher Grace Gowdy explores how informal mentoring relationships offer important lessons about promoting equity and youth voice.
In the United States today, more than four million young adults have disengaged from the K–12 education system without graduating or entering the workforce.
