Linked to Learning

Initiatives are aligned with school and district achievement goals and connect families to the teaching and learning goals for the students.

Video: Everybody Loves Their Children

boston.thebasics.org/

Video: The Meaningful Effects of Family Engagement

Seven Research-Based Ways that Families Promote Early Literacy

Global Family Research Project

Early Literacy Brief_Final.pdf

Formula For Success: Engaging Families in Early Math Learning

Global Family Research Project

Early Math FINE.pdf

8 Ways to Encourage Family Engagement in Secondary Schools

Edutopia

8 Ways to Encourage Family Engagement in Secondary SchoolsWhen a school makes the decision to actively engage its diverse community of families, the benefits far outweigh the effort. Check out these eight ways to do it.

Honoring Our Families' Immigrant Narrative

Edutopia

Honoring Our Families' Immigrant NarrativesTwo teachers' research and ELA unit explored students' own family immigrant stories while creating a storytelling experience as a vehicle for empathy, community, and great writing.

Parent Engagement in the Digital Age

Edutopia

Parent Engagement in the Digital AgeCommunication apps are breaking down barriers that have limited parent engagement in the past.

Sending Parents Useful Info Has Big Effects

The Hechinger Report

Sending parents useful information about attendance, course progress has big effects, social scientists find - The Hechinger ReportWhen Todd Rogers, director of the Student Social Support R&D Lab at Harvard University, started doing research in schools, he found focusing on parents could offer big returns. “Parents get so little information and so little of what they get is useful,” Rogers said. A behavioral scientist at the Harvard Kennedy School, Rogers has completed …

"Valuing teacher time is essential for outreach mechanisms to work. For many year, we have suggested that family engagement is not about doing more; it's about doing what we already do...just differently." Dr. Steve Constantino, Engage Every Family.

An idea: Change up the structure of weekly folders. 1/2 of the folder can include work that has already been completed, which is the traditional model. The other 1/2 should include information about how families can support work that is about to happen in the following week. Also, instead of requiring a signature, provide families with a question to ask their child and have them write down the answer. Teachers still get the confirmation they need, but in a much more meaningful way. This structure also allows families to have more power in the process of their child's learning, since they can be more proactive rather than only reactive.

Adolescence: Are Parents Relevant to Students' High School Achievement and Post-Secondary Attainment?

Evanthia Patrikakou

Harvard Family Research Project

FINE2004.pdf

Parents Make a Big Difference in School Quality. I'm Living Proof.

EdSurge, by Thomas Sheppard

Parents Make a Big Difference in School Quality. I’m Living Proof. - EdSurge NewsWhen I became a father, I promised to do everything I could to ensure my kids’ educational experience was better than mine. I’m a public-school kid. I ...

Video: Why East Boston High School Teachers Engage with Families

Harvard EdX

Planning Checklist for ELL Family Nights

English Learner Portal

ELL Family Night Planner - FINAL.pdf