Hacia Adelante ~ Pathways to College ~ A Guide for Latino Families
by Rosana Rodríguez, Ph.D., Pam McCollum, Ph.D., Micaela Díaz-Sánchez,
Anna Alicia Romero, and Aurelio Montemayor

Informs parents and students on how to plan together for college. This guide includes steps for choosing high school courses, selecting a college or university, financial planning, and an action calendar. Also available online (free). (ISBN: 1-878550-72-1; 46 Pages, 2002) $7.00 or free online [PDF]

Hacia Adelante ~ Pathways to College ~ Una Guía para Familias Latinas
by Rosana Rodríguez, Ph.D., Pam McCollum, Ph.D., Micaela Díaz-Sánchez,
Anna Alicia Romero, and Aurelio Montemayor

Spanish-language version of the above publication. Informs parents and students on how to plan together for college. This guide includes steps for choosing high school courses, selecting a college or university, financial planning, and an action calendar. Also available online (free).
(ISBN: 1-878550-72-3; 46 Pages; 2002) $7.00 or free online [PDF]

This guide is designed to help schools and universities in planning and strengthening community engagement. The guide includes a school-community engagement rubric covering eight categories along with analysis and planning worksheets in each of the categories for monitoring progress.
(No. ISBN; 15 Pages; 2002) $7.00 or free online [PDF]
Spanish version available free online [PDF]

Improving Educational Impact Through Family Engagement – A Review and Planning Guide – Field Test Version

This tool helps to foster meaningful and lasting educational impact through mechanisms for engagement with parents and families. It provides helpful ideas to address the most significant barriers to parent involvement that have been reported in the literature in K-12 programs. The guide gives ideas for each barrier to achieve a greater vision of engagement and offers planning guides to see how your school is addressing each barrier and what can be done for the future. It can be used with school personnel in conjunction with parents.
(No ISBN; 15 Pages; 2002) $6.00 or free online [PDF]
Spanish version available free online [PDF]


Family and Community Engagement Survey – Field Test Version

This survey can be used by teachers, administrators and parents to assess a school’s effectiveness in partnering with families and communities. It is a useful tool for planning strategies that are clustered around four domains: (a) student achievement; (b) access and equity; (c) organizational support; and (d) quality of interaction. The questions and ideas used in the guide are gleaned from the literature on effective partnering with communities and families.
(No ISBN; 12 Pages; 2002) $5.00 or free online [PDF]
Spanish version available free online [PDF]


Promoting Student Leadership on Campus: A Guide for Creating a Culture of Engagement – Field Test Version

This is a helpful guide for creating a culture of engagement that includes student voices in the educational change process. Students can help keep the focus clear in planning for academic success. This booklet offers ways to involve students in decision making and supporting meaningful student leadership. It also provides a way to measure success and plan activities that recognize and value students for their contributions by analyzing what is working, what is holding us back and what can be improved.
(No ISBN; 15 Pages; 2002) $6.00 or free online [PDF]

I'm Going to College – Fun Activities and Pictures to Color for Children in Elementary Grades

This is a fun activity book for early elementary children. It is designed to foster interest in going to college. The booklet for children and parents includes puzzles, word games, connect-the-dots, mazes, word scrambles and coloring pages aimed at ages four to 10.
(No ISBN; 17 Pages; 2002) $7.00 or free online [PDF]
Spanish version available free online [PDF]

In Our Voices (video and discussion guide)
by Rosana Rodríguez, Ph.D., Abelardo Villarreal, Ph.D., and Pam McCollum, Ph.D.

Two-part video and discussion guide on the topics of access, leadership, and community engagement. This beautiful video uses word and song as a vehicle for hearing student voices regarding higher education access. It is designed for use with groups of students, administrators and/or faculty in small group discussions or in classroom settings. (No ISBN; 45 minute video/40 Pages; 2002; VHS; $35)