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Reframing Family Involvement:supporting Families for Educational Equity[pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource provides a brief historical research overview of shifts in expectations and support for family involvement in children's learning, particularly with respect to economically disadvantaged and racial and ethnic minority...
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National Education Assoc.: Parent, Family, Community Involvement in Education

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource explains NEA's position that significantly more emphasis must be placed on the important roles that parents, families, and communities can and must play in raising student performance and closing achievement gaps.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Have Journal Will Travel: Promoting Family Involvement in Litera

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students build positive memories of literacy activities when they take turns taking home a book bag stuffed with items to encourage literacy interactions with their families.
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Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Launching Family Message Journals

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson plan introduces Family Message Journals-a teacher-tested tool for encouraging family involvement and supporting writing to reflect and to learn.
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Research & Evaluation: Impact of Family Involvement on Education [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource is an academic research document that provides a bibliography of literature that supports family involvement in an educational setting.
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Family Involvement in School and Low Income Children's Literacy Performance

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource examines associations between changes in family educational involvement in their children's schools and changes in literacy achievement between kindergarten and fifth grade for approximately 300 low-income families and...
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Website
US Department of Education

U.s. Department of Education: Involvement in My Child's Education

For Students 9th - 10th
This concise list of sites covers numerous topics that deal directly with a child's success in school. These topics include No Child Left Behind, supplemental services, and family involvement.