Check Out This Interview with Karen L. Mapp
‘Last Year Was a Wake-Up Call’: Family Engagement After COVID-19 is a new and good interview with Karen L. Mappe that appears at ASCD.
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Nice Series Of Videos Showing Karen Mapp Discussing Parent Engagement
Ed Week has just published this series of videos where parent engagement expert Karen Mapp discusses…parent engagement:
Video: “Karen Mapp’s Framework for Family and Community Engagement”
Here’s a useful video from Karen Mapp, one of the top parent involvement/engagement experts in the U.S.:
Video: Karen Mapp On Parent Engagement
Karen Mapp is one of the most-respected experts on the topic of parent engagement. Here’s a video of a talk she recently gave (you can see a short written summary here). I’m adding the video to The Best Videos On Parent Engagement.
Nice Interview With Karen Mapp
I just stumbled upon this interview with Karen Mapp, a renowned researcher on parent engagement, on Harvard’s website. The site includes a couple of short videos with her, too. You can read their transcripts here.
The Best Parent Engagement Resources – 2018
This is the second-to-last “Best” list I’ll be posting for the year. You can see my many parent-engagement-related “Best” lists here. I’m adding this list to All My End-Of-Year “Best” Lists For 2018 In One Place! Here’s what I have: Make One Change to Parent Outreach, and Study Finds Fewer Students Fail Classes is from Ed […]
September’s (2018) Useful Parent Engagement Resources – Part One
Want to really connect at your next family gathering? Try this. is from TED Talks. A review of the relationship between parental involvement indicators and academic achievement is a new and important study. 4 evidence-based ways parents improve student achievement is from eSchool News. GOOD ARTICLE & PODCAST ABOUT OUR SCHOOL’S HOME VISITING PROGRAM Successful […]
“Seeing Families as ‘Co-Creators’ of our Schools”
Seeing Families as ‘Co-Creators’ of our Schools is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. In it, Jennifer Orr, Shane Safir, Karen L. Mapp, Allen Mendler, Mary Tedrow, and Patricia Vitale-Reilly share their suggestions on how educators can engage families.
Guest Post: Report From National Parent Teacher Home Visit Conference
As regular readers know, I’m a big fan of — and our school and local union is a very active participant in — The Parent Teacher Home Visit Project (see The Best Resources For Learning About Teacher Home Visits). They recently had their national conference, and I invited Carrie Rose from the Project to write […]
It Looks Like Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Might Be Getting Serious About Parent Engagement
Can CMS get more parents involved in educating our children? is the headline of an article in Charlotte’s newspaper about a meeting District staff had with Karen Mapp, one of the most respected experts around on parent engagement. Here’s an excerpt: Her message was simple: If districts truly want parents to be engaged, they must […]
Upcoming Google Hangout: “Family and Community Engagement Practices that Raise Achievement”
Scholastic will be hosting what looks like a very useful Google Hangout on family engagement. Here’s how they describe it: Wed, Oct 8, 5:00 PM – 5:40 PM Hangouts On Air – Broadcast for free Join us for a Scholastic Mini-PD session focused on “Family and Community Engagement Practices that Raise Achievement.” Through this 40-minute, […]
“Home Visits Lifted Up as Best Practice by U.S. Department of Education”
I’ve written a lot about the Parent-Teacher Home Visit Project, including our school’s — and my — active involvement in it (see The Best Resources For Learning About Teacher Home Visits). I’ve also posted about the U.S Department of Education’s “Parent and Community Engagement Framework,” which they released in April and which talks about home […]
“Does Family Engagement Matter?”
Does Family Engagement Matter? is a response to the now infamous “Broken Compass” book questioning the usefulness of parent involvement. It’s written by three of the top experts in the field – Karen L. Mapp, Anne T. Henderson, and Nancy E. Hill. I’m adding it to The Best Commentaries On The “Broken Compass” Parent Involvement […]
Guest Post: Report From The National Family Engagement Conference
I’ve previously published short reports on last month’s National Family Engagement Conference. Today, Carrie Rose, Executive Director of the Parent-Teacher Home Visit Project, has written this guest post about it: Parent-Teacher Home Visits Fit DOE’s Vision Researcher Karen L. Mapp lifts up PTHVP in Family Engagement Framework CINCINNATI- Back in the day, did your grandma […]
The Best Commentaries On The “Broken Compass” Parent Involvement Book
Don’t Help Your Kids With Their Homework is the title of an article that appeared a few weeks ago in The Atlantic. It was written by Dana Goldstein. It describes research shared in a new book, The Broken Compass:Parental Involvement With Children’s Education by two professors which, at least according to Dana Goldstein, questions most […]
“Why ‘parental involvement’ is not a ‘broken compass.'”
I’ve written a couple of posts skeptical of claims made by authors of a new book on parent involvement called The Broken Compass, with the most recent one about their op-ed piece in The New York Times on Sunday. Inflated Research Claims Can Harm Children: Why “parental involvement” is not a “broken compass.” is a […]
Department of Education Releases New Parent and Community Engagement Framework
Today, the Department of Education released what they call a new “Parent and Community Engagement Framework.” To tell you the truth, I’m not really sure what that means, but it can’t hurt for them to place a more public emphasis on parent engagement. You can read about it at the Department’s blog post; get a […]
“How Federal Policy Can Encourage Authentic Community Engagement”
How Federal Policy Can Encourage Authentic Community Engagement is from the Annenberg Institute for School Reform. It’s a short article that suggests a new draft family engagement framework developed by Karen Mapp for the U.S. Department of Education should be integrated in the “turnaround” school strategies (see The Best Resources For Learning About The Four […]
“Boston Leader Connects Parents to Learning”
Boston Leader Connects Parents to Learning is a pretty interesting article about the person in charge of the Boston school district’s parent involvement program. Here’s an excerpt: This laser focus on broader districtwide goals means Boston has avoided the pitfalls of similar family-related offices in many other districts, where schools become caught up in what […]
I’m A Bit Wary Of Harvard’s Plan For Online Parent Surveys
In Education Week’s new article, Harvard, SurveyMonkey Offer Tool to Weigh Parent Engagement, the school and company announce a plan for school districts to use an online service to “measure the quality of parent-school relationships.” Even though they also briefly mention the service could incorporate paper versions of such a poll, and even though respected […]