Family & Community Engagement
We fund programs that bridge the gap between home and school and empower families as true partners in their children's education, ensuring that families have access to the information they need to support their children’s learning and to act as effective advocates for change. Our efforts also lift up student and educator voices to meaningfully shape education policy and practice.
- ReadEducation Success Starts with Family Involvement. Why Aren’t Donors Funding It?
Addressing post-pandemic learning loss should include far greater support for programs that involve parents and caregivers in their kids’ educations
Family & Community Engagement
- ReportPartnering with Immigrant Families to Promote Student Success
A new Corporation-commissioned report outlines recommendations and best practices to build effective family-school partnerships with immigrant families
Family & Community EngagementImmigration - REPORTHow Schools Can Practice Family Engagement to Dismantle Educational Inequities
A Corporation-commissioned report by Karen L. Mapp and Eyal Bergman outlines a new vision for family engagement that cultivates effective partnerships between families and educators
Family & Community Engagement
- Case StudyFamily Engagement Lab
Facilitating at-home activities by text message in each family’s home language to reinforce classroom learning and curriculum
Family & Community Engagement - Case StudyPowerMyLearning
Strengthening the triangle of learning relationships between students, teachers, and families through online family workshops, activities, and teacher professional development
Family & Community Engagement - Case StudySpringboard Collaborative
Helping educators and families build a relationship, set a goal, and make a shared game plan for increasing daily reading at home
Family & Community Engagement - Case StudyTalkingPoints
Helping millions of families and teachers communicate with each other without language barriers
Family & Community Engagement
- PortfolioPicture This: The Value of Connecting Families and Schools
In a portfolio of Zoom portraits, stakeholders in an upended education system reflect on how they are making it work during a time of nearly unprecedented upheaval. Overcoming challenges is a team effort and families are key to achieving lasting improvements
Carnegie Reporter Spring 2021Family & Community Engagement
- WATCHStrategies and Resources to Support Effective Family Engagement
A six-month learning series hosted by the U.S. Department of Education aims to bridge the gap between home and school and support the success of family engagement practices
Family & Community Engagement - Grantee Publication
- Teacher Voices‘Voices from the Classroom’ Provides Teacher Input and Roadmap for an Educational Recovery
Corporation grantee Educators for Excellence has released the 2021 edition of their national survey of public school teachers, which stresses the importance of using educator input for post-pandemic success
Family & Community Engagement - Student VoicesPutting Student Voices at the Center of Equitable Education Issues
Watch and learn how Raise Your Hand, a student-run initiative from Corporation grantee Our Turn, aims to help shape the future of American education
Family & Community Engagement