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Youth, Family & Community Insights & Resources

  • Family Engagement Mini Series

    How Schools Can Partner With Families Over Time

    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.

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    Continuous Family Engagement: Two-Way Partnerships from Early Learning to High School and Beyond

    See how family engagement shifts across a student’s educational journey, with research-based strategies for families and educators at each stage.

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    Student Parents Need More Than Programs; They Need Connected Pathways

    How do we keep parenting students connected to people, resources, and opportunities throughout their entire educational and career journey?

  • Family Engagement series

    An Introduction to Systemic Family Engagement

    What changes when we treat family engagement not as something schools do for families, but as a way education systems partner with families?

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    Building Better State Policy for Alternative Education

    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.

  • Early Learning Series

    Beyond Open House: Redefining Family Engagement in Early Learning

    Lindsay Camp, a lead preschool teacher in Leavenworth, WA, shares her welcoming and inclusive approach to engaging all families, all year long.

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    Leading Together: A New District Tool for Family Engagement

    This self-assessment helps districts plan an effective, systemwide approach to engaging families.

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    Lessons from Family Engagement in Education Grantmaking

    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.

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    Empowering Communities Through Collaborative Data Analysis

    Our Collaborative Analysis Process engages community members in making meaning of data and setting priorities. Together, we build buy-in and momentum for change.

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    An Equity Model for Youth Mentoring

    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.

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    Data is a Tool to Tell a Story: Our Strategic Data Project Fellows

    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.

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    We’ve Got Pride: Embracing Chosen Families to Equitably Support Youth

    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?

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    Building Solidarity to Advance Equitable Family Engagement

    Strong, trusting relationships between educators and families are foundational to educational equity. Indeed, students, families, schools, and communities benefit from strong family-school partnerships.

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    What Informal Mentors Can Teach Us About Effective Mentoring

    Researcher Grace Gowdy explores how informal mentoring relationships offer important lessons about promoting equity and youth voice.

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    Lessons for the Education System from Youth Reengagement Programs

    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.

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