Improving Educational Impact Through Family Engagment - 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. Spanish-language version also available, see Mejoramiento del Impacto Educativo a Través del Compromiso Familiar – Guía de Revisión y Planificación – Versión de Someter a Prueba.

(No ISBN; 15 Pages; 2002; $6.00)

Also available online (free).

Spanish version available online (free).

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