Parents, teachers tout classroom councils to boost engagement is an article about how a Chicago Head Start center is engaging parents. The exact model is probably not practical in many or most classrooms, but it’s just another way of looking at parents as “co-educators.”
Last June, I wrote a post about The United States Department of Health and Human Services accepting proposals to form a National Center on Parent, Family and Community Engagement. The Center appears to be up-and-running or, at least, its website is. Here is how the website describes its purpose: The National Center on Parent, Family, […]
The May newsletter of the Family Involvement Network of Educators (FINE) from the Harvard Family Research Project has just been published. Here is how they describe it: With the introduction of the Department of Education Investing in Innovation Fund (i3), innovation has emerged as a hot topic in education. In this issue of the FINE […]