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Members, Partners and Stakeholders,
This issue of NAFSCE News highlights the critical importance of sharing best practices in family, school, and community engagement across states, districts, schools, and communities. From social-emotional learning (SEL) efforts in Columbus, OH to early learning literacy program development in Minneapolis, MN, we have so much to learn from each other.
That is why I am so excited about NAFSCE's work with the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) to develop and advance family engagement frameworks in 16 states. As I explain in my latest blog post, this effort is bringing together teams of administrators and family engagement advocates who are joining forces like never before to share and build upon their knowledge, experience and enthusiasm for family engagement in their communities. I feel so fortunate to be part of this ground-breaking work.
Stay tuned for more information about these state coalitions and the work they are doing to champion family, school, and community engagement. Their efforts will surely benefit all of us who embrace family engagement as an essential strategy to promote child development and improve student achievement.
Best regards,
Vito Borrello
NAFSCE Executive Director
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Wednesday, June 6, 2018, 3:00 ET
Effective Practices Webinar Series
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In this webinar, Flamboyan Foundation will share the essential elements of its fellowship model and its work with teams across the country to design and implement effective family engagement in their communities. We'll hear from three communities that are working with the Foundation to build district, city, and statewide approaches to family engagement that 1) build their knowledge of family engagement, 2) operate with an equity lens, and 3) implement user centered design principles in their programs.
Our presenters:
Samantha Cohen
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Nelson Butten
Director, Family, Community & Student Engagement
Lawrence Public Schools
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Reilly Pharo Carter
Executive Director
Climb Higher Colorado
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Cokethea Hill
Director,
Community & Family Engagement
School Smart Kansas City
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Date: July 11-13, 2018
Location: Cleveland, OH
The 2018 National Family and Community Engagement Conference, hosted by NAFSCE partner, the
Institute for Educational Leadership,
is an excellent capacity building opportunity for educators, other professionals, parent leaders and a range of stakeholders to learn strategies and best practices that focus on solutions that enhance and expand engagement through family-school community partnerships. With 3 pre-conference sessions, 6 site-visits and over 75 workshops covering six strands, participants are sure to walk away with new skills and strategies that they can immediately apply to
their work.
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These programs, hosted by NAFSCE partner, the Harvard Graduate School of Education Professional Education department, address an urgent challenge or priority - from narrowing achievement gaps to leading inclusive schools - and provide educators with important context and data, as well as concrete solutions for expanding opportunity and achieving excellence with equity. Download the brochure.
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June 28-29 - Redwood City, CA
July 24-25 -
Colorado Springs, CO
August 2-3 - Lincoln, NE
Families In Schools, with funding from The Kresge Foundation, is offering free facilitator curriculum trainings on Transition to College for school and organizational staff. Transition to College is a six-week program that helps address the transition of low-income and immigrant students from high school to college. Click here to find out more.
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NAFSCE is seeking volunteers for several different roles in our new NAFSCE Ambassador Program including Group Leader, Resource Librarian, Engagement Liaison and New Member Welcome Ambassador. Find out what it means to be a NAFSCE Ambassador.
Complete our interest form today.
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Teachers unions will have to become more "creatively nimble" in order to keep and recruit new members if the U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of the plaintiff in
Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
, said Julia Koppich, a consultant and researcher who studies teachers' unions.
Lily Eskelsen García, president of the National Education Association said,
"We're not going anywhere, but it is going to be difficult."
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University of Connecticut researcher Angran Li has found that one size does not fit all students when it comes to parents helping with homework, and that parental involvement in homework can be particularly beneficial among economically disadvantaged African-American and Hispanic students. "When kids are not doing well at school, parents are more likely to help with their homework. That's why we observe this negative correlation between parent help with homework and student achievement," noted Li. Read the article.
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Over the past year, The Century Foundation analyzed roughly 5,700 charter schools in all 50 states in an attempt to produce the first-ever nationwide inventory of diversity in the charter sector. The findings were both sobering and promising. Although the number of diverse-by-design charter schools is still small, the research showed that integrated charter schools are not just possible, they are possible nearly everywhere - in communities of different sizes and demographics, at all levels of education, and in a variety of educational models and forms.
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Two new studies have tackled the topic of early education "fadeout." And though they use different data sets, the researchers point to similar conclusions: For positive benefits to last, early-childhood programs have to be of high quality and can't be seen as a one-shot inoculation that will sustain children throughout their academic careers. Learn more about the studies.
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Texting parents instead of calling them is just one of the strategies that the state is using in its critical effort to double the number of students in On My Way Pre-K, which pays for 4-year-olds from low-income families to attend a high-quality pre-K program of their choice for free. Staff in newly participating counties have needed to get creative about signing up families. While larger cities have seen a crush of families interested in pre-K opportunities, rural counties are working with a pool of far fewer eligible families and providers, who may be unaware the program exists.
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"The biggest challenge for closing the literacy gap is to address its cause: an opportunity gap," says Nell Duke, professor of literacy, language and culture at University of Michigan.
Children in higher socioeconomic classes tend to have greater access to high-quality child care and pre-K programs that extend literacy from school to home, Duke says. To close this gap, district leaders across the country are forging
partnerships
with organizations that already serve early learners.
"It's important for programs to include
parents
because they are their child's first teacher," says Kim Latterner, an early childhood coordinator at Shakopee Public Schools near Minneapolis. The district's homegrown Parent, Adult, Child and Education (PACE) literacy program aims to change that by boosting literacy before students enter their formal schooling years.
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When you support NAFSCE, you are supporting initiatives that have the potential to change the way our country thinks about the family's role in our children's education. From our partnership with the NEA to develop higher-education training for future teachers, to our work with the Frameworks Institute to create a fundamental shift in the way people think about engaging parents and caregivers, NAFSCE's work will have a profound effect on how we all think about family engagement.
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