Working with Families & Communities

Redding, S., Murphy, M., Sheley, P., & Academic Development Institute. (2011). Handbook on family and community engagement. Academic Development Institute, [Streamwood, Illinois.

Handbook on Family and Community Engagement

This handbook was published as a guide to engaging students, families, communities, and teachers. It emphasizes themes such as the importance of engagement, how to work together to benefit the student, areas to practice engagement, and many more. It is broken into four different sections: Framing the Discussion, Families and Learning, Families and Schools, and Suggested Practices. This is a great tool to use when engaging the community because it is all researched based and provides educators with a wide variety of approaches or tactics.

Engaging Parents in Education – Podcast Episode 21. (n.d.). IDRA. https://www.idra.org/resource-center/engaging-parents-in-education/

Engaging Parents in Education

This podcast discusses the benefits of having parents become active participants in their child’s education. It provides listeners with examples of specific instances where parental engagement has improved the learning outcome of students. By giving parents a voice and allowing them to weigh in on decisions regarding students a collaborative and productive environment is created. This is a beneficial tool for teachers because it provides insight into just how to apply these benefits in their classroom.

Working with Culturally Diverse Families. (2024). Pacer.org. https://www.pacer.org/cultural-diversity/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA88a5BhDPARIsAFj595h2KliEUhCF86FtqQiNn9SIJ6ui0ODUspTQQ8gRA5X8nmsRgNkEWg0aArJxEALw_wcb

Engaging Culturally Diverse Families for Student Success

The Pacer Center website is a great resource for both parents and educators. It emphasizes the importance of parents being a part of their child’s educational plan and the benefits of schools being proactive in the strategies they use to reach students of all personal and cultural backgrounds. The website provides videos and other links that cover a broad range of topics specifically regarding the education of students with culturally diverse families and how to appropriately engage them in the classroom or curriculum making it a wildly useful site for culturally responsive teaching

Szech, L. (2022). Fostering Culturally Relevant Teaching through Family Visits . International Journal of Multicultural Education , 24(3). Ebsco. https://research.ebsco.com/c/qkxrjx/viewer/pdf/aplwiymvev?auth-callid=26262996-92d8-4f0b-8bc1-ef32e45cbf77

Fostering Culturally Relevant Teaching through Family Visits

This journal was published about a study done to investigate whether students absorb the most information through literature or engaging in family visits. While the literature in question came from a variety of culturally responsive sources, the study found that students retain information better when they are actively engaged and participating in activities such as family visits and/or discussions. Reading this helps show the benefits of creating an accepting and culturally diverse teaching environment as well as how engagement of parents can relate to this.

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