Hmmmmmm…..After 4 Years & $5 Million, Foundation Now Thinks Working With Teachers Is An “Emerging Strategy” For Parent Engagement

The James Irvine Foundation has just published a report on the first four years of a $5 million parent involvement grantmaking program in California’s Central Valley.

Though it seems like some good work has come out of it, I do find it interesting that their report now describing working teachers as an “emerging strategy” for greater parent involvement.

I just wonder if, just maybe, it might have been a good idea to start with that premise….

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