Partnerships by Design - Cultivating Effective and Meaningful School-Family-Community Partnerships
Main Website for the National Coalition for Parent Involvement
Resources for Educators
Tips for teachers to create a class website for homework and long term assignments. Includes recommendations on blogging tools and websites that teachers can use to post class information.
A partnership between The University of Akron College of Education, (UA) and Akron Summit Community Action, Inc (ASCA), Akron Ready Steps (ARS) is a program that serves over 300 at risk children in five Head Start sites in high poverty communities in Akron, OH. Program goals address high priority knowledge and skills preschoolers need to learn; high priority knowledge and skills teachers/teacher assistants need to teach; the design of high quality 21st century language and literacy-rich environments; active parent engagement; and mobilizing the community around strong preschool literacy education.
Be There is a research-based, multimedia campaign designed to get parents more involved in their children's education. One hundred percent of the research studies compiled by The Parent Institute* indicate that parent involvement has a significant impact on student success. The statistics show that with as little as a one-third increase in parent participation, school achievement scores increase dramatically. It only takes a small increase in parent input to see measurable results in student output!
Education Alliance at Brown University\nfive principles of parent engagement\n1. Policy\n2. Leadership\n3. Communication\n4. The Community\n5. Evaluation