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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.
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Find inspiration for your family engagement efforts from around the world.
Harvard Family Research Project (April 2016) Research Report
As told to the FINE team by Linda Foote, Technology Integration Specialist for Poway Unified School District, this article discusses how data helps students create their learning goals and helps parents create family goals to support their children’s learning. The article also shares ideas for how to build community around data.
Harvard Family Research Project (October 2010) Research Report
Engaging with families is one of the many strategies that out-of-school time (OST) programs use to create quality, adult-supervised experiences for youth during nonschool hours. This workshop introduced participants to the latest research and evaluation findings on family involvement in OST programs, and shared strategies for engaging with families, using two case studies to illustrate these practices in context.
Harvard Family Research Project (October 26, 2004) Conferences and Presentations
As we celebrate the Week of the Young Child, learn how families can support creative play with young children in a variety of ways and settings.
Harvard Family Research Project (April 2016) Research Report
This resource from HFRP offers a compilation of articles on families’ use of data to support, guide, and advocate for student achievement and schoolwide improvement. Resources are grouped into three categories: Perspectives that offer lessons learned from family and community use of data, program examples that illustrate what it takes to make data actionable for families, and tools that help everyone understand how data can be analyzed.
Harvard Family Research Project (October 2010) Research Report
These Web documents were produced by HFRP as part of its initial efforts to “map” the out-of-school time field, and detail federal funding streams for out-of-school time programs and related programming alongside their accountability requirements and evaluations. A summary section offers a narrative description of each funding stream. Funding streams are classified as major or minor depending on the amount of money they make available for out-of-school time efforts.
Harvard Family Research Project (2000) Research Report
This set of six volumes offers practical advice for establishing and managing a family support program.
Harvard Family Research Project (1993) Research Report
Based on research of promising practices in school districts and communities, Harvard Family Research Project has identified a range of technological innovations that have the potential to boost key dimensions of family engagement: positive parent–child interactions, home–school communication, and parent responsibility for a child’s learning.
Harvard Family Research Project (October 2010) Research Report
To honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s vision of freedom and justice, we highlight key messages from our contributors about transforming family engagement to promote educational equity.
Harvard Family Research Project (January 14, 2015) Research Report
Written for program administrators and staff, this guide offers practical advice for establishing and managing community outreach in a family support program.
Harvard Family Research Project (1993) Research Report
Harvard Family Research Project’s Teaching Cases are designed to support teacher training and professional development by highlighting challenges that schools, families, and communities may encounter in supporting children’s learning. In this month’s newsletter, we feature Defining “Fine”—Communicating Academic Progress to Parents, a case that highlights one elementary school’s efforts to use and understand data about student progress toward state standards and to communicate the meaning of these data clearly to parents.
Harvard Family Research Project (October 2010) Research Report
Presidents’ Day is a time to reflect on the importance of leadership. Learn how policymakers, researchers, and practitioners are leading the field of family engagement.
Harvard Family Research Project (February 13, 2015) Research Report
Written for program administrators and staff, this guide offers practical advice for establishing and linking programs to service systems in a family support program.
Harvard Family Research Project (1993) Research Report
We are committed to keeping you up to date on what's new in family engagement. View our list of links to current reports, articles, resources, and events in the field.
Harvard Family Research Project (June 28, 2012) Research Report
In this issue’s commentary, Heather Weiss and M. Elena Lopez from Harvard Family Research Project and Deborah Stark, Commissioner of First 5, Alameda County revisit the new definition of family engagement—as a shared responsibility, across multiple settings, from cradle to career—as applied to student data use. They discuss how data can effectively bring families, teachers, and administrators to the table, and engage everyone around student learning and performance.
Harvard Family Research Project (October 2010) Research Report
Harvard Family Research Project (2001) Bibliography
Interested in developing a logic model, learning more about improvement science, or advancing your program evaluation? This guide offers valuable resources practitioners can utilize to strengthen their evaluative work and develop more productive relationships with evaluators.
Harvard Family Research Project (November 19, 2015) Research Report
Written for program administrators and staff, this guide offers practical advice for evaluating family support programs.
Harvard Family Research Project (1993) Research Report
We are committed to keeping you up to date on what’s new in family engagement. View our list of links to current reports, articles, resources, and events in the field.
Harvard Family Research Project (December 5, 2013) Research Report
We at Harvard Family Research Project are committed to keeping you up to date on what's new in family involvement. This list of links to current reports, articles, events, and opportunities will help you stay on top of research and resources from HFRP and other field leaders.
Harvard Family Research Project (October 2010) Research Report
In this Q & A, the developers of Comienza en Casa │“It Starts at Home,” talk about supporting migrant families to ensure their children have smooth transitions to school through the use of real-world and digital activities.
Harvard Family Research Project (March 19, 2015) Research Report
Harvard Family Research Project (2006) Bibliography
Discover newly released reports chronicling the significance of family engagement on children’s behavioral and academic outcomes. From the effectiveness of home visits to the importance of building a child’s vocabulary, this fall’s offerings bring new attention to family‒school-community partnerships.
Harvard Family Research Project (December 3, 2015) Research Report
Written for program administrators and staff, this guide offers practical advice for establishing and managing collaboration in a family support program.
Harvard Family Research Project (1993) Research Report
This resource guide highlights research reports, journal articles, examples of best practices, and tools that provide information on facilitating a comfortable and effective family–school partnership in the interest of successful outcomes for children with disabilities.
Harvard Family Research Project , Jamie Ferrel (September 2012) Bibliography
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