The Family Involvement Network of Educators (FINE) is a national network of almost 14,000 educators, practitioners, policymakers, and researchers dedicated to promoting strong partnerships among schools, families, and communities.
Through a grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Harvard Family Research Project, in partnership with the Public Library Association, will explore the role of libraries in family engagement and children’s learning.
Learn how a human-centered design approach opens new possibilities for educators to engage families in meaningful ways.
With an eye toward continuous improvement and career enrichment, HFRP provides research-based teacher preparation and professional development resources and training tools for teachers, teacher educators, administrators, and policymakers.
In this blog, you can read about the latest research, policy, and practice trends in family engagement in diverse contexts.
HFRP Interact is a vibrant learning community of people that share insights, strategies, and practices about family, school, and community connections in web chats, web conferences, and discussion boards.
In a hurry? Get a quick glimpse of innovative community-wide programs and practices, inventive tools, and creative partnerships that promote anywhere, anytime learning!
Considering the transition to school to be a collaborative process that involves families, preschool and kindergarten teachers, afterschool staff, and other community providers, we produce materials that help our audience frame the transition as a shared endeavor.
Through a grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation we will use the Family Involvement Network of Educators (FINE) to create a robust, interactive platform for sharing research and promising practices about engaging families in young children's learning and development.
NCPFCE is one of six centers that make up Head Start’s Training and Technical Assistance system and is a partnership between the Brazelton Touchpoints Center at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Family Research Project. Through this partnership, we developed research-informed resources (e.g., a webinar series and a research-to-practice resource) for the Head Start community.
The Parent University Network, a subgroup of the Family Involvement Network of Educators (FINE), is composed of Parent Universities nationwide that help families develop knowledge and skills that enable them be proactive in their children’s learning and growth.
The United Way Worldwide’s Family Engagement for High School Success initiative, which supports the families of disadvantaged high school youth by increasing involvement in their children’s education, produced a number of valuable resources, including a toolkit and a webinar series.
This leadership collaborative informs the development and implementation of federal policy related to family, school, and community engagement in education.
These webinars provided opportunities for stakeholders representing national, regional, and local organizations to learn about family, school, and community engagement research and innovations, as well as best practices from the field.
The Family Involvement Storybook Project uses children's storybooks with family educational involvement themes to boost young children's achievement. Access the resources created as part of this project by visiting the Storybook Corner.
