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Intercultural Development Research Association
Description: IDRA is an independent, non-profit organization that advocates the right of every child to a quality education. For almost 30 years, IDRA has worked for excellence and equity in education in Texas and across the United States. IDRA conducts research and development activities; creates, implements and administers innovative education programs; and provides teacher, administrator, and parent training and technical assistance.
New York State Parental Information & Resource Center (PIRC) 
Description: This website provides links to various resources on parental involvement and ways parents can become actively engaged in their children's education and learning.
Supporting Your Adolescent: Tips for Parents
Description: Provides tips for raising an adolescent, as well as a comprehensive listing of print resources for parents and glossary of terms.
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Enhancing Home Involvement to Address Barriers to Learning : A Collaborative Process
Description: This research study focuses on home involvement interventions and factors interfering with school
learning and performance.
Evaluating Family Involvement Programs
Description: Articles in this issue of the Harvard Family Research Project's Evaluation Exchange address the challenges of evaluating family programs, including the need for conceptual clarity, methodological rigor, accountability, and contextual responsiveness. In an interview with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn she reflects on breakthrough findings and new directions for research, evaluation, and practice in family-focused interventions. Rounding out the issue are examples of ongoing evaluations of parent
leadership and organizing programs that are working to ensure that schools serve all children at high standards.
Evaluation that Goes Beyond the Data
Description: Program evaluation is a process that documents the successes and efforts of outreach programs describing educational or behavioral impacts. Increasingly, educators who work with youth and family programs are asked to document program outcomes. These results have become increasingly important to educators and funders. However, with limited accessible information pertaining to program evaluation, educators are often challenged and frustrated by the need to design and conduct good evaluation. This article describes two accessible interactive Web sites that were designed to provide support to educators designing program evaluations. The first site is designed to assist educators in evaluating parenting education programs, in particular. The second site assists educators in designing effective evaluations for any program. These two Web sites offer educators a self-study opportunity to gain new skills and knowledge to support their program evaluation efforts.
Harvard Family Research Project
Description: HFRP offers an exhaustive listing of HFRP's publications on early childhood care and education, family, parental involvement, school and community issues, evaluation and accountability information and professional development. Many are available for free download. The site also offers access to family involvement tools and resources via the FINE network (Family Involvement Network of Educators).
Use of a Stages of Change Model to Guide Evaluation Development
Author: Griffin, Melody; Francesca Adler-Baeder; Thomas Smith
Description: Describes the use of ProchaskaÂ’s Stages of Change Model to guide the evaluation of Phase II of the CYFAR project Beginning Education Early: Strengthening Rural Alabama Families (BEE). Phase II involves programs designed to help parents interact productively with community health services and develop effective co-parenting relationships. ProchaskaÂ’s model aids in detecting subsequent movement toward behavioral/awareness change.
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Achieving Excellence and Innovation in Family, School, and Community Engagement
Description: This webinar series provides 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.
Cómo Ayudar a su Adolescente con la Tarea
Description: This article provides tips on how to help your teen with homework.
Data Driven: Making Student and School Data Accessible and Meaningful To Families
Description: This webinar examines practical examples of how districts and schools are using data to engage families in their children’s education.
Family Involvement in Education
Description: This page discusses what parents should do involving their child's life once the child returns to school. Through the U.S. Department of Education.
Fun Things To Do Outside With Your Child
Description: This article provides ideas on how to play outside with your children.
How to Help Your Teen with Homework
Description: This article provides tips on how to help your teen with homework.
Description: Extension Just in Time Parenting (JITP) is an outreach innovation that brings high quality, research-based information to families at the time it can be most useful and make the biggest difference in their lives. The vision is to reach all parents -- starting prenatally and continuing through adolescence - with the key information that can help their family unit thrive and support their children as they grow up healthy and ready for success.
National Home Education Network
Description: Helpful information for those new to home schooling, reasons for homeschooling, words of advice from experienced homeschoolers, and links to online and local support groups. Its aim is to create communication among the separate homeschoolers and homeschooling foundations.
Parent/Family Involvement (2009)
Description: New York State Center for School Safety, talks about the benefits and challenges of involving families in youth programs, and offers resources particularly for programs focusing on adolescent sexual health.
Parenting for School Success: A Guide for Parents
Description: Resources include a booklet and bookmarks for parents. The booklet will help parents with ideas they can use to support their child's learning any time, but especially useful over the summer. Bookmarks are in English and Spanish versions.
Description: Summer 2009 issue of the School Connections newsletter, a quarterly publication from Families and Communities Together with Schools (FACTS), focus on parental involvement.
Description: Amid the increasing dialogue about the importance of “school connectedness” as a key factor in school success, parent educators continue to stress the need to establish the foundation for academic success long before a child evens steps foot in school—at home. With the start of a new school year, the CYFERnet Parent/Family Editorial Board focused this Hot Topic on some of resources available through CYFERnet on the importance of parent involvement in their children’s education—from making time for family meals to the growing homeschooling movement.
Description: This article provides ideas on appropriate chores for child age groups.
The Role of the Family in Adolescent Development: Preventing Risk, Promoting Resilience
Author: Steinberg, Laurence
Description: Invited keynote presentation, CYFAR 2001 San Diego, March 22, 2001.
- More about "The Role of the Family in Adolescent Development: Preventing Risk, Promoting Resilience"
Women, Work, and Family Health: A Balancing Act
Description: This research brief examines women's roles in family health care decision-making and coordination, the effect of that involvement for women who work, and women's caregiving responsibilities. The research is based on data from the 2001 Kaiser Women's Health Survey, a nationally representative sample of nearly 4,000 women between the ages of 18 and 64.
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Dad's Early Connection With Child Writes Script For Later School Involvement
Description: This news article gives an overview of a new University of Illinois study that explores the role of parent involvement on student achievement. The study involved 390 children and their families from the Child Development Supplement data set of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The importance of fathers in early childhood is discussed.
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Achieving Excellence and Innovation in Family, School, and Community Engagement Webinar Series
Description: The Achieving Excellence and Innovation in Family, School, and Community Engagement webinar series is an opportunity for stakeholders representing national, regional, and local organizations to learn about family, school, and community, engagement research, best practices from the field, and new innovations that are making a difference in school improvement and student learning.
Building Strategic Partnerships to Foster Community Engagement in Education
Description: This webinar examines practical examples of how to build successful strategic partnerships that foster community engagement, including how to select the organizations, people, and services to be included; how to structure communications to ensure ongoing collaboration; and how to build connections with families and schools.
Enhancing Home Involvement to Address Barriers to Learning : A Collaborative Process
Description: This research study focuses on home involvement interventions and factors interfering with school
learning and performance.
Ensuring School Readiness Through Successful Transitions
Description: This webinar highlights innovative practices, explore the range of supports and services offered to young children and their families, and emphasize how to help families understand how to remain involved in their child’s education as the child moves into the early school grades.
FINE: Family Involvement Network of Educators
Description: The Family Involvement Network of Educators (FINE) focuses on strengthening family, school and community partnerships. FINE offers the latest research and information about family involvement, as well as evaluation methods, and publishes a free newsletter.
Description: This webinar highlights innovative practices that facilitate the transition to high school, information about how schools can help families stay engaged in their children’s education during the high school years, and services that offer essential information and assistance for students and their families throughout the college application process.
Description: The PFCE Framework was developed in partnership with programs, families, experts, and the National Center on Parent, Family, and Community Engagement. It is a research-based approach to program change that shows how an agency can work together as a whole—across systems and service areas— to promote parent and family engagement and children’s learning and development.
The Role of the Family in Adolescent Development: Preventing Risk, Promoting Resilience
Author: Steinberg, Laurence
Description: Invited keynote presentation, CYFAR 2001 San Diego, March 22, 2001.
- More about "The Role of the Family in Adolescent Development: Preventing Risk, Promoting Resilience"
Description: Five age-based (Infants, Toddlers, Preschoolers, elementary, and teenagers) parenting toolkits for Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqui Freedom veterans and their partners. Provider Guide also provided. Especially for reconnecting w/ their youth after deployment. Paper copies will be sent to all VA medical centers this year.
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Description: This resource provides 35 tips to becoming more involved in a young child’s education.
Achieving Excellence and Innovation in Family, School, and Community Engagement Webinar Series
Description: The Achieving Excellence and Innovation in Family, School, and Community Engagement webinar series is an opportunity for stakeholders representing national, regional, and local organizations to learn about family, school, and community, engagement research, best practices from the field, and new innovations that are making a difference in school improvement and student learning.
Advancing the Field of Parenting Education (PDF)
Author: Glasser, Debbie (1 more by this author)
Description: This article discusses why parents are so important to a child’s well being and how to educate parents.
Are You Serious About the Rules You Make?
Description: This article discusses the importance of following through with the rules parents make for their children.
Being Involved with Your School-Age Child
Author: Ferrer, Millie (29 more by this author); Anne M. Fugate
Description: Parental involvement means being genuinely involved in every part of your child's life. This fact sheet offers suggestions for increasing time together with your children, how to establish family traditions and activities.
Building Strategic Partnerships to Foster Community Engagement in Education
Description: This webinar examines practical examples of how to build successful strategic partnerships that foster community engagement, including how to select the organizations, people, and services to be included; how to structure communications to ensure ongoing collaboration; and how to build connections with families and schools.
Description: This article provides insight into what it is like for a child learning to talk.
Center for Effective Parenting
Description: The Center for Effective Parenting: Arkansas State Parenting Information Resource Center (PIRC) strives to improve parent education and parental involvement in Arkansas. Provides free handouts on parent involvement and child development in English and Spanish.
Choosing a Child Care Provider -fact sheet
Description: This fact sheet explains different types of child care and how to choose the right child care for your child.
Author: Heath, Harriet
Description: The discussion in this paper develops a questionnaire for professionals and parents to use on parent involvement.
Cómo ayudar a su hijo a aprender ciencias
Description: This booklet provides parents of children ages 3 through 10 with information, tools and activities they can use in the home and community to help their child develop an interest in the sciences and learn about the world around them.
Cómo ayudar a su hijo a ser un buen lector
Description: This booklet offers pointers on how to build the language skills of young children, and includes a list of typical language accomplishments for different age groups, suggestions for books, and resources for children with reading problems or learning disabilities.
Cómo ayudar a su hijo a ser un ciudadano responsable
Description: This booklet provides information about the values and skills that make up character and good citizenship and suggests activities school-aged children can do to put those values to work.
Cómo ayudar a su hijo a tener éxito en la escuela -- La serie de Ayudando a su niño
Description: This booklet provides parents with information, tools and activities they can use in the home to help their child develop the skills critical to academic success.
Cómo ayudar a su hijo con la tarea escolar -- La serie de Ayudando a su niño
Description: This booklet helps parents of elementary and junior high school students understand why homework is important and makes suggestions for helping children complete assignments successfully.
Cómo ayudar a su hijo con las matemáticas
Description: The major portion of this booklet is made up of fun activities that parents can use with children from preschool age through grade 5 to strengthen their math skills and build strong positive attitudes toward math.
Cómo ayudar a su hijo durante la edad preescolar
Description: This booklet highlights techniques parents can use to encourage their children to develop the skills necessary for success in school and life by focusing on activities that make learning fun.
Cómo ayudar a su hijo durante los primeros años de la adolescencia -- La serie de Ayudando a su niño
Description: Based on the latest research in adolescent development and learning, this booklet addresses questions, provides suggestions and tackles issues that parents of young teens generally find most challenging.
Como Mejorar la Educación de sus Hijos Guía Para Padres Latinos
Description: This guide offers Latino parents a number of suggestions on how they can get involved in and be better advocates for the education of their children. Information is also offered so that Latino parents have the tools to exercise their rights.
Empowering Parents School Box: A Tool to Equip Parents for the School Year
Description: Provides tips on working with children from birth to high school; guidelines for taking advantage of free tutoring opportunities; steps for selecting a high-quality school; ways to get involved in children's schools; information about financial aid and scholarships; and resources for improving learning. It also includes success stories of schools where parent involvement made a difference.
Enseñando a crecer, una guía para padres
Description: Enseñando a crecer, una guía para padres is an easy-to-read, easy-to-use 52 page booklet that looks at common parenting challenges from birth through early elementary school. This version is a translation into Spanish (with limited cultural adaptation) from the English version of Positive Discipline.
Ensuring School Readiness Through Successful Transitions
Description: This webinar highlights innovative practices, explore the range of supports and services offered to young children and their families, and emphasize how to help families understand how to remain involved in their child’s education as the child moves into the early school grades.
Description: Los padres de familia son los maestros, guías y abogados de mayor importancia para los niños. Entienda que su opinión y la de su familia son importantes. Los maestros de su hijo pueden entender mejor las necesidades de su niño y su familia si hablan con ellos. De hecho esto ayuda a los maestros a enseñar mejor a su hijo.
Epstein's Model for Six Types of Involvement
Description: Presents an overview of Epstein’s framework of six types of involvement helps educators develop more comprehensive programs of school-family-community partnerships. Each type of involvement includes many different practices of partnership. Each type has particular challenges that must be met in order to involve all families, and each type requires redefinitions of some basic principles of involvement. Finally, each type leads to different results for students, families, and teachers.
Description: Families and Schools Together (FAST) is a multi-family group intervention program designed to build protective factors for children ages 4-12 and empower parents to be the primary prevention agents for their own children.
Families and Schools Together (FAST)
Description: Families and Schools Together® is a nonprofit agency that designs and distributes family strengthening and parent involvement programs to help kids succeed in school and in life. FAST programs help families improve parenting skills and connect families to their schools.
Family Involvement Storybook Corner: Related Readings
Description: Related Readings offers research on family involvement in children's early literacy drawn from our broader website of the Family Involvement Network of Educators (FINE).
Family Involvement Storybook Corner: The Reference Desk
Description: The Reference Desk section contains tools for classroom teachers, parents, and teacher trainers for using storybooks to promote family involvement. Many of these tools are easily adaptable for use in different programs and community-based settings for children and families. Several of these tools also facilitate effective family literacy practices.
Family Involvement Storybook Corner: Using Family Involvement Storybooks
Description: The Family Involvement Storybook Corner introduces the idea of reading and sharing storybooks that have family involvement content. The stories themselves are about the many ways that families participate in and support children's learning at home, at school, and in the community.
Family Involvement Storybook Project
Description: The project offers descriptions of read-aloud storybooks with family involvement themes. Family involvement is defined broadly here as families engaging in activities at home, at school, or in the community, with the purpose of supporting children's school education or more general learning.
Description: Like other forms of parental involvement, research shows a positive relationship between frequent family dinners and positive teen behavioral outcomes. Teens who regularly have meals with their family are less likely to get into fights, think about suicide, smoke, drink, use drugs, and are more likely to have later initiation of sexual activity, and better academic performance than teens who do not. Research differences by race and ethnicity are addressed.
FINE: Family Involvement Network of Educators
Description: The Family Involvement Network of Educators (FINE) focuses on strengthening family, school and community partnerships. FINE offers the latest research and information about family involvement, as well as evaluation methods, and publishes a free newsletter.
Free Parent Resources from Parent Effectiveness Training P.E.T.
Description: This website lists a series of free resources available from Parent Effectiveness Training (P.E.T.).
Getting Parents Into Programs: CD and Worksheets
Author: Alvy, Kerby
Description: Parenting instructors and organizations who run parenting programs often complain that their hardest and most difficult task is attracting and maintaining parental participation. This comprehensive presentation provides them with proven strategies and advice for both successfully recruiting parents and for keeping them involved.
Getting Ready for College -parent guide
Description: This parent guide provides information on preparing your child for college, applying for financial assistance, and helping them get to college.
Getting Ready for Kindergarten -parent guide
Description: This parent guide provides information to help you and your child get ready for kindergarten.
Description: This article discusses how to help children become healthy eaters.
Help Your Child Learn to Read -parent guide
Description: This parent guide provides information on helping your child learn to read.
Helping with Homework -fact sheet (Spanish)
Description: This parent guide provides information on helping your child with homework.
Helping with Homework -parent guide
Description: This parent guide provides information on helping your child with homework.
Helping Your Child Become a Reader
Description: This booklet offers pointers on how to build the language skills of young children, and includes a list of typical language accomplishments for different age groups, suggestions for books, and resources for children with reading problems or learning disabilities.
Helping Your Child Become a Responsible Citizen
Description: This booklet provides information about the values and skills that make up character and good citizenship and what you can do to help your child develop strong character. It suggests activities for school-aged children and tips for working with teachers and schools.
Helping Your Child Learn History
Description: The booklet is comprised of activities that can be experienced at home or in the community for children in preschool through grade 5, and features information about the basics of history; practical suggestions for how to work with teachers and schools to help children succeed in school; and a list of federal sources, and suggested books for parents and children.
Helping Your Child Learn Mathematics
Description: The major portion of this booklet is made up of fun activities that parents can use with children from preschool age through grade 5 to strengthen their math skills and build strong positive attitudes toward math.
Also available in Spanish.
Helping Your Child Learn Science
Description: This booklet provides parents of children ages 3 through 10 with information, tools and activities they can use in the home and community to help their child develop an interest in the sciences and learn about the world around them.
Also available in Spanish.
Helping Your Child Succeed in School
Description: This booklet provides parents with information, tools and activities they can use in the home to help their child develop the skills critical to academic success.
Helping Your Child Through Early Adolescence
Description: Based on the latest research in adolescent development and learning, this booklet addresses questions, provides suggestions and tackles issues that parents of young teens generally find most challenging.
Helping Your Child With Homework
Description: This booklet helps parents of elementary and junior high school students understand why homework is important and makes suggestions for helping children complete assignments successfully.
Description: This booklet highlights techniques parents can use to encourage their children to develop the skills necessary for success in school and life by focusing on activities that make learning fun.
Helping Your School-Age Child Develop a Healthy Self-Concept
Author: Ferrer, Millie (29 more by this author); Anne M. Fugate
Description: This publication describes how a child's self-concept begins to develop at birth with how adults respond to her. Parents and caregivers create a positive emotional bond with an infant through warm and caring interactions with a lot of eye contact and touch. This positive emotional bond with parents and caregivers promotes a child's healthy self-concept.
Description: This article provides insight into how a child feels while watching TV.
Hitting is My Way of Asking for Help
Description: This article discusses why children hit, bite, and/or scratch and how parents can deal with this problem.
Description: These tip sheets from Harvard Family Research Project are designed to support educators and families in conducting productive, successful parent-teacher conferences. Designed to be used as a set, the tip sheets combine consistent information with targeted suggestions, so that parents and educators enter conferences with shared expectations and increased ability to work together to improve children's educational outcomes.
How do I Choose an Early Intervention Service Provider? -fact sheet
Description: This fact sheet explains what an early intervention service provider is, when you need one, and how to choose one.
How do I Choose an Early Intervention Service Provider? -fact sheet (Spanish)
Description: This fact sheet explains what an early intervention service provider is, when you need one, and how to choose one.
How to Develop a Logic Model for Districtwide Family Engagement Strategies
Description: This policy brief examines the role of school districts in promoting family engagement by spotlighting how six school districts across the country have used innovative strategies to create and sustain family engagement “systems at work.”
Includes a set of recommendations for how federal, state, and local policies can promote district-level family engagement efforts that support student learning.
Description: This article provides insight on why young children say “no”.
Description: This article discusses why it is important to allow young children to make some choices themselves.
Illinois Early Learning Project
Description: The Illinois Early Learning Project Web site is a source of evidence-based, reliable information on early care and education for parents, caregivers, and teachers of young children in the State of Illinois. The Web site offers printable Tip Sheets for caregivers and parents, Frequently Asked Questions (and their answers), a customized question-answering service, a statewide calendar of events for parents and caregivers, an easy-to-use database of links to "the best of the Web" on topics related to early care and education, and periodic Online Chats.
Illinois Early Learning Project (Spanish)
Description: El sitio Web de Illinois Early Learning (Aprendizaje Temprano de Illinois, o IEL) es un medio efectivo para proveer información confiable basada en evidencia a los padres y madres, cuidadores y maestros de niños pequeños en el estado de Illinois. El sitio Web ofrece Páginas de Consejos que pueden imprimirse, para cuidadores y padres, un servicio que ofrece respuestas individuales a sus preguntas, un calendario para padres y cuidadores con eventos estatales, una base de datos fácil de usar con enlaces a lo mejor del Web sobre temas de mucho interés, y Chateo en Vivo.
Description: This article provides insight on what bedtime means to a child and how parents can make it easier.
It’s Hard for Me to Get Along with Others
Description: This article provides insight into why children may have trouble getting along with others.
Description: This article discusses why children gets upset when their parents leave and how to ease their anxiety.
Description: This article discusses a child’s need to explore and how to set boundaries.
I’m Not a Cry Baby, I Just Need Your Help
Description: This article discusses why babies cry and how to assist them.
Description: This article provides insight into why children lie.
Description: Extension Just in Time Parenting (JITP) is an outreach innovation that brings high quality, research-based information to families at the time it can be most useful and make the biggest difference in their lives. The vision is to reach all parents -- starting prenatally and continuing through adolescence - with the key information that can help their family unit thrive and support their children as they grow up healthy and ready for success.
Description: This webpage provides insight into the learning process and how you can impact positive change in your child.
Description: This article discusses why children want to help with errands.
Description: This article provides insight into children’s world and how parent involvement improves their lives.
Description: This article discusses how children like playing with their parents as well as other children.
Description: This article discusses the importance of reading to your child.
Los adolescents y el uso de Internet
Description: This fact sheet gives parents tips for keeping their teens safe while using the internet.
Description: A MAPPS Program engages parents of K-12 children in the mathematics of the schools. The program empowers parents with new mathematical knowledge and with new self-confidence about learning mathematics, creates families that learn mathematics together, improves children's competencies in mathematics, and gets the broader community embracing mathematics as something everybody can do and enjoy.
Description: This fact sheer provides insights on potty training.
Mentoring as a Family Strengthening Strategy
Description: The Family Strengthening Policy Center serves as a focal point for research, information dissemination, and advocacy on place-based, practice-driven family strengthening practices, programs, and policy. This particular article deals with mentoring and its use as a family strengthening strategy.
Monitoring Your Child's Internet Use -fact sheet
Description: This fact sheet explains the dangers of the internet for children and ways in which you can protect your children.
Monitoring: Staying Involved in Your Teen's Life
Author: Sachs, Shannon (2 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides information on parental monitoring and involvement and provides tips on ways to increase a parent's and family's closeness and support.
Description: This parent guide explains how music and rhyming help young children with learning development. The guide also provides music and rhyming activities you can use with your child.
Music and Rhyming -fact sheet (Spanish)
Description: This parent guide explains how music and rhyming help young children with learning development. The guide also provides music and rhyming activities you can use with your child.
National Human Service Assembly: Family Strengthening Policy Center
Description: The Family Strengthening Policy Center (FSPC) is an organization intended to improve outcomes for children and families living in low income, marginalized communities, by advancing and promoting family strengthening practice.
Parent Guide: Parental Involvement
Description: This document explains the importance of parent involvement in a child’s life as well as how one can become involved in a child’s life.
Parent Information Press newsletter
Description: This quarterly newsletter provides information for parents intended to help parents and schools work together to increase student achievement.
Author: Price-Mitchell, Marilyn
Description: ParentInvolvementMatters.Org is a web project sponsored by the non-profit National ParentNet Association to provide education, research, and resources about parental involvement in education. The site offers complete materials and programming information for ParentNet, an evidence-based parent involvement program developed by forty K-12 schools over an 11-year period. It provides many free, printable resources to support ParentNet as well as professional articles, success stories, and a consultant directory.
Author: DeBord, Karen (59 more by this author)
Description: In this study, more than 1800 parents were asked to respond to a questionnaire about their parenting information needs. Preliminary findings indicate that differences exist between and among groups in how they prefer to receive parenting information. In the first phase of analysis, findings indicate that parent educators cannot meet the needs of parents as a homogeneous audience. Planned attention should be given to target parent audiences. Parents of different ethnicities vary in how they currently obtain parenting information. For example, African American parents more often than others use immediate family members; primarily their own parents as primary sources of information while Hispanic parents prefer to turn to their medical practitioner as a source of information.
Parent Teacher Conferences: A Tip Sheet for Principals, Teachers, Parents
Description: These tip sheets from Harvard Family Research Project are designed to support educators and families in conducting productive, successful parent-teacher conferences. The tip sheets combine consistent information with targeted suggestions, so that parents and educators enter conferences with shared expectations and increased ability to work together to improve children's educational outcomes.
Parental Involvement -fact sheet (Spanish)
Description: This document explains the importance of parent involvement in a child’s life as well as how one can become involved in a child’s life.
Parental Involvement in Education
Description: The Family Strengthening Policy Center serves as a focal point for research, information dissemination, and advocacy on place-based, practice-driven family strengthening practices, programs, and policy. This particular article deals with parental involvement in education.
Description: This report explores the reasons parents become involved in their children's homework, the ways they are involved, and how their involvement contributes to student learning. Written by researchers from the Family-School Partnership
Lab at Vanderbilt University, the review also suggests ways in which schools can invite parents to become involved in homework.
Description: Parenting for School Success uses the latest research, providing easy-to-use tools for parents and schools to work together to help support children's learning K-12.
Parenting for School Success: A Guide for Parents
Description: Resources include a booklet and bookmarks for parents. The booklet will help parents with ideas they can use to support their child's learning any time, but especially useful over the summer. Bookmarks are in English and Spanish versions.
Description: This link is an order form for the Parenting Piece by Piece curriculum, a series of eight parenting education sessions
Description: Parenting Pipeline contains free newsletters for parents of preschoolers, kindergartners, second, fourth, and sixth graders, and teens. Each level offers a number of newsletters on issues related to parenting and family life.
Description: Parents for Public Schools is a national organization of community-based chapters working to strengthen public schools through broad-based enrollment. Invigorated by a diverse membership, proactive involvement that helps public schools attract all families in a community by making sure all schools effectively serve all children.
Description: Parents Forum is a grass-roots organization concerned with family life issues. Their mission is to bring together groups of parents and others to practice effective communication skills in order to build more responsible in among families and more involvement in communities
Parents Learning Activities Overview
Description: This webpage provides learning activities that parents can use to help their children to do well in school.
Partnering with Parents: Walking the Journey Together
Description: Partnering with Parents consists of a series of 11 interactive training modules based on principles of family centered practices and parenting education theory and research.
Preparing for Parent Teacher Conferences
Author: Rochford, Marilou (3 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet outlines the steps for a successful interaction among parents and teachers during parent-teacher conferences. Provides simple suggestions parents can use for improving their children's performance in school.
Raising Courageous Kids Educator Resources
Description: Provides a series of handouts geared to raising healthy children for use in parent educator workshops and presentations.
Raising Responsible Children -parent guide
Description: This parent guide provides tips on how to instill the value of responsibility in your children.
Description: Raising Teens pulls together current research on the parenting of adolescents and presents key messages for the media, policy makers, practitioners, and parents.
Reading to Your Child -parent guide
Description: This parent guide explains the importance of reading to your child and provides tips on helping your child learn to read.
Description: This parent guide explains the importance of school attendance and how to encourage good attendance in your child.
Description: This program focuses on strategies parents can use to assure their understanding of children's needs for a successful school experience and focuses on ways parents can be advocates for their children's needs in educational environments.
See the World Through My Eyes: Understanding the Child's Journey of Development (archived webinar)
Description: Stuck in the "adult view"? This archived version of the March 4, 2009 webinar, sponsored by the CYFERnet Parent/Family Editorial Board, focuses on See the World Through My Eyes, a new "ages-and-stages" program developed by the family life team at the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension. The program is aimed at improving parent-child relationships. See the World Through My Eyes invites parents of preschool children to see their children's normal developmental challenges from the children's point of view.
Sharing the Wisdom on Parenting: Turning Information Overload Into a Curriculum That Works (PDF)
Description: This article discusses the challenges of parents today and how to create a curriculum for parents providing information, skills, and support to help them better guide their children.
Description: This webinar highlights innovative practices that facilitate the transition to high school, information about how schools can help families stay engaged in their children’s education during the high school years, and services that offer essential information and assistance for students and their families throughout the college application process.
Support Your Child's Learning at Home - Preschool to Kindergarten -parent guide
Description: This parent guide provides information on supporting your child’s learning during preschool and kindergarten. The guide provides information on four areas: language and literacy, movement skills, math skills, and social skills.
Take Me and My Cooing Seriously
Description: This article discusses how a child’s babbling and cooing can be important.
Taking a Closer Look: A Guide to Online Resources on Family Involvement
Description: This comprehensive resource guide compiles a wealth of information about family involvement from over 100 national organizations. It contains Web links to recent (published in and after 2000) research, information, and tools.
Tarbiyeynta Wanaagsan: Hagaha Waalidka (Somali)
Description: Tarbiyeynta Wanaagsan: Hagaha Waalidka is an easy-to-read, easy-to-use 52 page booklet that looks at common parenting challenges from birth through early elementary school. This version is a translation into Somali (with limited cultural adaptation) from the English version of Positive Discipline
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions aimed at helping parents become more involved in their child's school work.
Description: This article provides insight into why young children do not like to share.
Description: The PFCE Framework was developed in partnership with programs, families, experts, and the National Center on Parent, Family, and Community Engagement. It is a research-based approach to program change that shows how an agency can work together as a whole—across systems and service areas— to promote parent and family engagement and children’s learning and development.
The Motherhood Study: Fresh Insights on Mothers' Attitudes and Concerns
Description: The Motherhood Study featured a survey of more than 2,000 mothers, a nationally representative sample reflecting the demographics of the total U.S. population of mothers 18 and older with at least one child under the age of 18. That quantitative analysis was complemented by in-depth interviews and focus groups to provide more detail about the experiences of mothers. This research summary provides highlights of the key study findings.
Description: This webinars examine practical examples of how states can embed family engagement into their professional development systems and how teacher education programs can systematically include family engagement in teaching and learning. The webinar will also discuss promising practices in higher education, including partnerships with Parental Information and Resource Centers (PIRCs) to build the capacity of family coordinators.
There’s a Monster in My Closet!
Description: This article discusses why children have so many fears and how parents can help their children cope with these fears.
Think Your Teen Needs Counseling?
Description: This article addresses parents who seek counseling for their teenaged son or daughter.
Thriving with Your Spirited Child
Description: Thriving with Your Spirited Child was created to provide resources to parents/guardians of spirited children. As parenting class participants asked questions it was evident that they were describing spirited child characteristics. The parents did not realize they had a spirited child and had inadequate tools for dealing effectively with the temperament traits.
Tomasito's Mother Comes to School/La Mama De Tomasito Visita La Escuela
Description: This online bilingual storybook about family involvement at school includes a children's story, along with an informational guide for adult family members and discussion questions. The story draws from the real experiences of one Latino boy and his family who are acculturating to the U.S.
Transforming Schools Through Family, School, and Community Engagement
Description: This webinar will include real-life examples of innovative family and community engagement efforts, as well as discussing how to successfully integrate family engagement systems into student learning and how to sustain engagement efforts across the cradle-to-career pathway.
Txoj Kev Pab Rau Cov Niam Txiv Cob Qhia Kom Me Nyuam Coj Zoo (Hmong)
Description: Txoj Kev Pab Rau Cov Niam Txiv Cob Qhia Kom Me Nyuam Coj Zoo is an easy-to-read, easy-to-use 52 page booklet that looks at common parenting challenges from birth through early elementary school. This version is a translation into Hmong (with limited cultural adaptation) from the English version of Positive Discipline.
What Every Parent Should Know to Survive the College Years
Description: This resource is a recording of a lecture on information for parents with children in college.
Description: This resource guide provides information on working with your child’s school, including: communicating with teachers, monitoring your child’s progress, and supporting learning at home. (Before opening, please make sure your computer's speakers are turned on.)
Working Together with School -parent guide
Description: This document explains the importance of parent involvement in a child’s life and how to work with your child’s school.
Your Child and Social Interaction
Description: This webpage provides information to help you deal with difficult situations, as your child begins to push the boundaries of what is and is not socially acceptable behavior.
Author: Behnke, Andrew (4 more by this author)
Description: Interviews with 19 Mexican origin fathers in two parts of the United States examined how these men describe their parenting practices and give meaning to their involvement with their children.
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Description: This article discusses the impact of school, family, and community on a student’s ability to perform in school.
Description: Parent involvement programs can play an essential role in the academic success of Latino youth. This article reports the effectiveness and evaluation of two new Extension programs that help Latino parents become more involved in their youths' academics.
Enhancing Home Involvement to Address Barriers to Learning : A Collaborative Process
Description: This research study focuses on home involvement interventions and factors interfering with school
learning and performance.
Epstein's Model for Six Types of Involvement
Description: Presents an overview of Epstein’s framework of six types of involvement helps educators develop more comprehensive programs of school-family-community partnerships. Each type of involvement includes many different practices of partnership. Each type has particular challenges that must be met in order to involve all families, and each type requires redefinitions of some basic principles of involvement. Finally, each type leads to different results for students, families, and teachers.
Evaluating Family Involvement Programs
Description: Articles in this issue of the Harvard Family Research Project's Evaluation Exchange address the challenges of evaluating family programs, including the need for conceptual clarity, methodological rigor, accountability, and contextual responsiveness. In an interview with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn she reflects on breakthrough findings and new directions for research, evaluation, and practice in family-focused interventions. Rounding out the issue are examples of ongoing evaluations of parent
leadership and organizing programs that are working to ensure that schools serve all children at high standards.
Family Involvement in Early Childhood Education: Family Involvement Makes a Difference
Author: Weiss, Heather (5 more by this author)
Description: This brief reviews family involvement research and its implications in early childhood education.
Family Involvement in Elementary School Children's Education: Family Involvement Makes a Difference
Description: This research brief reviews research on why and how family involvement matters for elementary school children's learning and socio-emotional development. It highlights how you can use this research to promote effective policies and practices.
Family Involvement in Middle and High School Students' Education
Description: This research brief presents an overview of what works to promote family involvement and student achievement during middle and high school.
Family Involvement Storybook Corner: Related Readings
Description: Related Readings offers research on family involvement in children's early literacy drawn from our broader website of the Family Involvement Network of Educators (FINE).
Description: Like other forms of parental involvement, research shows a positive relationship between frequent family dinners and positive teen behavioral outcomes. Teens who regularly have meals with their family are less likely to get into fights, think about suicide, smoke, drink, use drugs, and are more likely to have later initiation of sexual activity, and better academic performance than teens who do not. Research differences by race and ethnicity are addressed.
Harvard Family Research Project
Description: HFRP offers an exhaustive listing of HFRP's publications on early childhood care and education, family, parental involvement, school and community issues, evaluation and accountability information and professional development. Many are available for free download. The site also offers access to family involvement tools and resources via the FINE network (Family Involvement Network of Educators).
Marriage and Relationship Education: Will It Reduce Poverty and Strengthen Families?
Description: This policy brief reviews the emerging practice known as “marriage and relationship education” and advocates for making family services available to all low-income
families with children, regardless of marital status.
Description: A MAPPS Program engages parents of K-12 children in the mathematics of the schools. The program empowers parents with new mathematical knowledge and with new self-confidence about learning mathematics, creates families that learn mathematics together, improves children's competencies in mathematics, and gets the broader community embracing mathematics as something everybody can do and enjoy.
Mobilizing the Public for Education Reform: Challenges for a Program and Its Evaluators
Description: The evaluation follows the effectiveness of PEN’s theory of action which relies on active public engagement as the impetus for changes in education policy and practice, and so making the public truly responsible for public schools.
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Parent Involvement and Student Academic Performance: A Multiple Mediational Analysis
Description: This study examines two potential mechanisms a child's perception of cognitive competence and the quality of the student-teacher relationship. This study used a sample of 158 seven-year-old participants, their mothers, and their teachers. Results indicated a statistically significant association between parent involvement and a child's academic performance, over and above the impact of the child's intelligence.
Author: DeBord, Karen (59 more by this author)
Description: In this study, more than 1800 parents were asked to respond to a questionnaire about their parenting information needs. Preliminary findings indicate that differences exist between and among groups in how they prefer to receive parenting information. In the first phase of analysis, findings indicate that parent educators cannot meet the needs of parents as a homogeneous audience. Planned attention should be given to target parent audiences. Parents of different ethnicities vary in how they currently obtain parenting information. For example, African American parents more often than others use immediate family members; primarily their own parents as primary sources of information while Hispanic parents prefer to turn to their medical practitioner as a source of information.
Parental Involvement in Education
Description: Family and community involvement that is linked to student learning has a greater effect on achievement than more general forms of involvement. This policy brief seeks to describe the role parental involvement in education has on child well being in low income communities.
Description: This report explores the reasons parents become involved in their children's homework, the ways they are involved, and how their involvement contributes to student learning. Written by researchers from the Family-School Partnership
Lab at Vanderbilt University, the review also suggests ways in which schools can invite parents to become involved in homework.
Parental Involvement Strongly Impacts Student Achievement
Description: This news article discusses a research study from the University of New Hampshire shows that students do much better in school when their parents are actively involved in their education.
Parenting and its Effects on Children: On Reading and Misreading Behavior Genetics
Author: Maccoby, Eleanor
Description: This research article discusses how children’s genetic predispositions and their parents’ childrearing regimes are closely interwoven, and the ways in which they function jointly to affect children’s development.
Description: This study explores how socializing with peers who engage in risky behaviors (e.g., sexual behaviors, truancy, or substance use) influences academic engagement and its components (i.e., interest in school, education utility value, and academic effort). Second, the study assesses whether family cohesion buffers the relationship between socializing with these peers and academic engagement.
Description: Raising Teens pulls together current research on the parenting of adolescents and presents key messages for the media, policy makers, practitioners, and parents.
School Connectedness—Strategies for Increasing Protective Factors Among Youth
Description: This CDC report explores the ways in which school connectedness can act as a protective factor in decreasing risk factors and increasing the likelihood of positive youth development. This publication defines and describes the components of school connectedness and identifies specific actions that schools can take to increase school connectedness.
Author: Aufseeser, Dena; Brett Brown; Susan Jekielek
Description: This research brief reports on data about teens experiences in their families with a particular focus on differences across social groups. The purpose of the brief is to identify where disparities exist and where needs for intervention are greatest. The brief concludes with a discussion on implications for parenting and for policy.
Description: This paper from the journal of Pediatrics discusses the benefits of play and free time for children in terms of promoting healthy child development and strong parent-child bonding.
The Motherhood Study: Fresh Insights on Mothers' Attitudes and Concerns
Description: The Motherhood Study featured a survey of more than 2,000 mothers, a nationally representative sample reflecting the demographics of the total U.S. population of mothers 18 and older with at least one child under the age of 18. That quantitative analysis was complemented by in-depth interviews and focus groups to provide more detail about the experiences of mothers. This research summary provides highlights of the key study findings.
Using Technology to Enhance Connections Between Home and School: A Research Synthesis
Description: The purpose of this report is to synthesize research on the effectiveness of programs that use technology to improve links between home and school, with the aim of guiding future evaluation and policy. To develop this report, a comprehensive review of research on the subject of technology-supported programs that link home and school was conducted.
Description: This document outlines current research about parent involvement in childrens education.