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Harvard Offers Tips for Sharing Data with Families (K-2 Parents and the Public blog, Education Week, 4/18/13)
April 18, 2013
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Tips for Administrators, Teachers, and Families: How to Share Data Effectively
The K-2 Parents and the Public blog on the Education Week website recently highlighted Harvard Family Research Project’s April 18 FINE Newsletter, which explores ways that teachers and administrators can share data effectively with families to improve students’ learning. The blog quotes Christine L. Patton in her newsletter article, Making Data Meaningful, as saying that a new picture has emerged on the kinds of data that families need in order to get a full understanding of their children’s progress. She points out that families of elementary school children need to know more than just test scores, quarterly grades, and attendance records—that they, in fact, also need to have information on their children’s mastery of 21st-century skills such as problem solving, creativity, adaptability, and collaborative work.
Among the newsletter articles, the blog also singles out HFRP’s recent publication, Tips for Administrators, Teachers, and Families: How to Share Data Effectively, which help administrators, teachers, and families determine the best ways to share student data in meaningful ways, on a regular basis, to strengthen family–school partnerships and promote student learning.
Read Harvard Offers Tips for Sharing Data with Families, Making Data Meaningful, and Tips for Administrators, Teachers, and Families: How to Share Data Effectively.