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Tuesday, October 30, 2018, 3:00 - 4:30 PM ET
NAFSCE Effective Practices Webinar Series:
What role can family and community engagement play in improving school safety? How can we effectively engage our community in conversations about how to keep students and educators safe? These questions have come to the forefront of our national conversation
in the wake of the devastation in Parkland, Florida and other communities, and will be the topic of this month's Effective Practices Webinar.
Shellie Evers will tell us about the resources and training the state of Virginia provides to schools and communities and share how the state's school safety audit program works. Mary Kusler of the National Education Agency will discuss the kinds of advocacy efforts the NEA is supporting to effect long-term change. And finally, a student organizer from Chicago's March for Our Lives chapter will share his story about local mobilization efforts to combat the violence that plagues their communities and their schools.
Join us for this important discussion and learn what you can do in your own communities to change the conversation around school safety.
Featuring:
School and Campus Safety Conference Coordinator
Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety
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Senior Director
Center for Advocacy
National Education Association
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Next Convening: November 13th, 2018,
2:00p
m ET
Join your fellow family engagement practitioners as they discuss strategies, obstacles and creative solutions to family and community engagement challenges in this virtual gathering.
NAFSCE Members:
Please sign in
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NAFSCE joins Scholastic National Advisory Council
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Pennsylvania Family Involvement Conference brings parents and educators together
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Family Involvement Conference Panel Discussion |
The NAFSCE team was on hand last week to welcome educators and parents from up and down the eastern seaboard to the Family Involvement Conference in Harrisburg, PA. Vito Borrello provided remarks and led a discussion with panelists
Pedro Rivera, Secretary, PA Department of Education, Erin Derr, PA Department of Education, Title I, Statewide Parent Advisory Council, Sarah Holland, PA Office of Child Development and Early Learning, and Sue Polojac, PA Office of Child Development and Early Learning.
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A new challenge paper, written by Dr. Heather Weiss, co-director of the Global Family Research Project for the Carnegie Corporation of New York, highlights the fact that while family and community engagement is one of the strongest predictors of children's learning, overall development, and well-being -- and of their educational and life success -- it has not been central to conversations about educational improvement, equity, and reinvention efforts. The report recommends five promising high-leverage areas that might be considered core building blocks for next generation family engagement strategies, and proposes that families, schools, communities, and others use them as a lens to look at what exists now and what could exist in the future when it comes to empowering families to support their children's learning.
Download the report here.
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To complement Dr. Weiss' challenge paper and offer additional insight, Carnegie invited eight of its grantees, including NAFSCE Executive Director, Vito Borrello, to write essays with their own reflections on the paper's call to action. Their responses offer differing perspectives and possible solutions. One essay shares the experience of a former dropout determined to break the cycle with her own children. Others call on us to rethink how schools communicate academic progress and the ways technology may help bridge barriers and strengthen relationships. Read the essays.
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PowerMyLearning, a national education nonprofit, is launching an exciting partnership with DonorsChoose.org
whereby teachers can secure exclusive access to
Family Playlists™,
a groundbreaking research-based approach to engaging families in learning. Thanks to generous support from the Morgridge Family Foundation, teachers can participate in the
PowerMyLearning Family Engagement Innovators Program
, a new professional development opportunity focused on Family Playlists, for a fraction of the total cost. Participating teachers will learn how to strengthen the "triangle" of learning relationships between students, families, and teachers using Family Playlists.
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Explore a new interactive learning series designed to enhance your knowledge around family homelessness, specifically around the McKinney-Vento definition of "homeless" as it refers to children and youth. Learn how to identify families experiencing homelessness, conduct community outreach, and much more. Each 30-minute module expands capacities on supporting families experiencing homelessness, so try it today.
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Roughly 24% of adolescents in the U.S. with correctable vision issues do not have sufficient access to vision care, and the numbers are likely to rise as increased screen time and reduced outdoor play increase the chances for early onset myopia,
EdSource reports.
Schools can do their part by encouraging parents to take students
for eye exams and by
raising awareness of organizations
and
other resources
that can help educate parents as well as defray the cost of glasses and other corrective measures.
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Pam Clayton, family engagement coordinator for the Walla Walla school district in Washington state, takes recommendations from experts like Karen Mapp to heart as she works to find programs that work best for the families she serves. Learn more.
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The Brick Township School District in New Jersey has created a program for parents of students with special needs that aims to bring parents together and answer questions while helping them navigate the special education process. The Parent Academy is a free, year-round parent engagement initiative of the district's special education department that has the goal of uniting families. Learn more about the program.
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In 2017, the Aberdeen School District collaborated with Scholastic Education's Family and Community Engagement (FACE) component to implement a district-wide program with a focus on five pillars : Early Literacy, Family Engagement, Access to Books, Expanded Learning and Mentoring Partnership. Sheraton Crosby, Aberdeen School District Family and Community Engagement specialist, provides some insights into how the program works.
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Mary Parr-Sanchez, Vice President of the National Education Association, asserts that Kentucky's Family Resource and Youth Service Centers (FRYSCs), a manifestation of the community schools movement, should serve as inspiration to legislators in New Mexico and elsewhere, who are considering the "mammoth task" of school system reform. Read the article.
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Developed by Stanford-trained educational researchers, Ready4K is proven to increase family engagement and children's development over the course of a school year. Families receive 3 text messages a week with easy tips on how to boost their child's learning by building on existing family routines - like pointing out the letters on shampoo bottles during bath time and naming their sounds, counting the number of steps as you walk to the car or bus, or making feeling faces in the mirror after you brush your teeth. The Ready4K curriculum covers birth through 3rd grade and is available in English, Spanish and Arabic.
Learn more.
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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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The Program Director is a key member of MCC's leadership team. With broad oversight from the Faculty Director, this role will lead our new "Caring Families" parenting initiative, which, in 2018-19, will primarily focus on identifying and developing effective parenting strategies for promoting empathy, gratitude and diligence. In subsequent years, the Program Director will oversee MCC's portfolio of school-focused programs, including our Caring Schools Network; our Caring Schools #CommonGood campaign to deepen the impact of our college admissions work with high schools; our Empathy Strategies Initiative; and our national Youth Advisory Board.
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