BIMONTHLY FAMILY ENGAGEMENT RESOURCES
September-October 2023
This site provides resources for ParentCamp and describes a free, full-day event with more than 20 discussion sessions for parents and teachers, as well as frequent virtual meetings. It is billed as an "un-conference" because the idea is to encourage parents to talk and engage, rather than to provide a series of lectures to parents.
School Family Media Inc.
This website has tips sheets, articles, free downloadable handouts, Spanish-language flyers, toolkits, and more to help parent group leaders serve their schools more effectively and run their groups more efficiently.
Parent Involvement Matters
This resource page on the Parent Involvement Matters website offers a listing of organizations that "provide assistance to parents and schools in their goal to improve the academic, social, and emotional health of children. The organizations listed here have excellent resources on their websites."
Ohio Statewide Family Engagement Center
This webpage has descriptions and links to many organizations that support families with middle and/or high school students in various ways or with various concerns. Many have resources in multiple languages, as well.
Dominic Siami Egure, Katherine Curry, Ashlyn M. Fiegener, Younglong “Rachel” Kim, and Bodunrin Akinrinmade
“The purpose of this qualitative case study was to investigate, through the lens of Adult Learning Theory, the perceived influence of TeleNGAGE on educators’ and families’ capacity to collaborate in equitable and transformative ways.…This social learning space, which supported adult preferences and motivations for learning, created a synergy that led to equitable social status, the application of new knowledge, and innovative approaches to problem-solving.”
Vol 33, No 1 - Spring/Summer 2023
Carlas McCauley, Julie Webb, Suzanne Abdelrahim, and Soha Mahmoud-Tabana
“This article explores an action-oriented research study designed to provide better understanding of ways to leverage school and community partnership through family engagement, focusing on the development and enactment of an approach to nurture family–school partnerships. Specifically, in partnership with seven school districts, a team of educators employed an inquiry cycle to plan and investigate family engagement efforts focused on emergent bilingual students and their families.”
Vol 33, No 1 - Spring/Summer 2023