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.
Taking Leadership, Innovating Change: Profiles in Family, School, and Community Engagement
March 10, 2010
In the 2009 Federal Register Notice announcing the Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund, the U.S. Department of Education put the identification and scale-up of innovations at front and center in efforts to reform schools and improve student success. Given this renewed emphasis on innovation, the National Family, School, and Community Engagement Working Group has compiled twelve examples of leading innovations in family engagement as an integral and effective strategy in systemic education reform, detailed in the report, Taking Leadership, Innovating Change. As a set, these innovations represent a vision of family, school, and community engagement as a shared responsibility and a continuous process that occurs wherever children learn and throughout their development into young adults.
The National Family, School, and Community Engagement Working Group is a collaborative of leaders in the family engagement field including Harvard Family Research Project’s (HFRP) Heather Weiss. The Group was created to inform educational policy on family engagement and in so doing, to improve educational opportunities for all children, from cradle to career.