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The Harvard Family Research Project separated from the Harvard Graduate School of Education to become the Global Family Research Project as of January 1, 2017. It is no longer affiliated with Harvard University.
Volume I, Issue 4, November 2009
This tool is designed to help principals, teachers, and parents share responsibility for productive parent-teacher conferences.
Dear FINE Members,
Family involvement is a shared responsibility, consisting of three major dimensions: the opportunities that schools and communities offer parents and other family members to support and enrich their children’s learning; mutually agreed upon, or co-constructed, roles; and learning from personal experiences, peers, research, and other resources about how to engage families in children’s learning. In this issue, we apply our new, broader definition of family engagement to the ways in which families, communities, and schools work together to share responsibility for student learning.
Two new articles illustrate how co-constructed roles can work in practice: Voices from the field recounts the story of a parent, school principal, and family advocate sharing responsibility for creating a solution to school problem, and our featured teaching case describes how a mother enlisted the help of a community organization to communicate with a school principal after her son was suspended.
In addition, we introduce a tool to help school districts and other organizations think through the development of systemic family engagement policies and programs. We also introduce a newly developed section of our website that houses all of Harvard Family Research Project’s policy-related work in one convenient location. And, as always, we provide a listing of new family involvement articles, news, and resources.
We invite your feedback on the topics we explore in this FINE Newsletter, and encourage you to pass on this issue to interested friends and colleagues.
Harvard Family Research Project Commentary
Family Engagement: A Shared Responsibility
Resources & Research From Harvard Family Research Project
Seeing is Believing: Promising Practices for How School Districts Promote Family Engagement
Resources & Research From Harvard Family Research Project
Family Engagement Policy Resources
Tips & Tools From Harvard Family Research Project
How to Develop a Logic Model for Districtwide Family Engagement Strategies
Tips & Tools From Harvard Family Research Project
Featured Teaching Case: Suspension at Aurora Middle School
Voices From the Field
Co-Constructing Family Engagement Roles in Federal Way, Washington
Family Involvement News
Contact Us
If you experience a problem reading this newsletter or have questions and comments concerning our work, we would love to hear from you. Please send an email to fine@gse.harvard.edu.
Enjoy!
The FINE Team at Harvard Family Research Project
© 2016 Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College
Published by Harvard Family Research Project