TOPIC: Parent/Home Involvement in Schools

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Articles

• Connecting Schools, Families, and Communities
• Enlisting Appropriate Parental Cooperation and Involvement in Children's Mental Health Treatment

Guides to Practice

• Fostering School, Family, and Community Involvement. Guidebook in series, Safe and Secure: Guides to Creating Safer Schools.
• What Schools Can Do to Welcome and Meet the Needs of All Students and Families

Hot Topic

• Homework as a Mental Health Concern

Introductory Packets

• Parent and Home Involvement in Schools
• Transitions: Turning Risks into Opportunities for Student Support

Newsletter

• Engaging the Strengths of Families, Youth, and Communities in Rebuilding Learning Supports (Spring, 2007)

Practice Notes

• Involving Parents in Counseling
• Welcoming Strategies for Newly Arrived Students and Their Families

QuickFinds

• The Enabling Component
• Parenting Skills and Parenting Education

Resource Aid Packets

• Home Involvement in Schooling: A Self-study Survey in: Addressing Barriers to Learning A Set of Surveys to Map What a School Has and What It Needs

Technical Aid Packets

• Guiding Parents in Helping Children Learn
• School Based Mutual Support Groups
• Welcoming and Involving New Students and Families

Technical Assistance Sampler

• A Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Appendix E: Home Involvement in Schooling - Parenting Education
• Appendix E: Home Involvement in Schooling - Adult Education/Family Literacy
• Appendix E: Home Involvement in Schooling - Mobilizing the Home to Address Students' Basic Needs

Tools for Practice

• Home Involvement in Schooling: A Self-Study Survey

Training Tutorials

• Home Involvement in Schooling

Academics
• Engaging Families in Academic Improvement
• Enhancing Educational Performance: Three Policy Alternatives
• Family Literacy: A Strategy for Educational Improvement
• Helping Students with Homework in Science and Math
• Helping with Homework: A Parent's Guide to Information Problem-Solving
• Helping Your Child with Homework
• The Homework Dilemma: How Much Should Parents Get Involved?
• New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement
• A Parent's Guide to Improving School Achievement

Facts, Studies, and Statistics

• Facts For Families (from the AACAP)
• Family Advocacy, Support, and Education in Children's Mental Health (2008) K. Hoagwood, et. al., Administration and Policy in Mental Health, 35: 73-83.
• The Growing Number of Kids in Severely Distressed Neighborhoods: Evidence from the 2000 Census
• Questions Parents Ask About Schools
• Reaching All Families: Creating Family-Friendly Schools. US Dept of Education, Office or Educational Research and Improvement
• Snapshots of America's Families 3: Tracking Change 1997-2002 (2003) Urban Institute
• What Works For Parent Involvement Programs For Adolescents: Lessons from Experimental Evaluations of Social Interventions

General

• Bibliography of Family Involvement Research Published in 2005
• Center for Parent Leadership
• Children Cared for by Relatives: Who are They and How Are They Faring?
• Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
• Home Visits. In Beginning Teacher' Tool Box
• Pacer Center
• Identifying and Addressing the Needs of Children in Grandparent Care
• National Clearinghouse on Family Support and Children's Mental Health
• Hope in the Face of Adversity
• National Network of Partnership Schools at Johns Hopkins University
• School Staff Perception of Parental Involvement (#163)

Mental Health

• A Family Guide to Keeping Youth Mentally Healthy & Drug Free
• A Strategic and Shared Agenda to Advance Mental Health in Schools Through Family and System Partnership

Research

• Approaches to Parental Involvement for Improving the Academic Performance of Elementary School Children in Grades K–6
• Grandma and Grandpa Taking Care of the Kids: Patterns of Involvement
• "It's All in the Family: Planning High-Quality Family Literacy Events

Partnerships

• Building Effective School-Family-Community Partnerships in a Large Urban School District
• Community and Family Engagement: Principals Share What Works
• Developing a Collaborative Team Approach to Support Family and Community Connections with Schools: What can School Leaders do?
• Engaging Families to Improve Achievement
• A Dozen Activities to Promote Parent Involvement!
• Family and Advocates Partnerships for Education (FAPE)
• Family and community engagement self-assessment
• Family Involvement in Children's Education: Successful Local Approaches
• Family Involvement in Elementary School Children's Education
• Family Involvement in Middle and High Schools
• Family Involvement Tips
• Family Partnerships with High Schools: The Parents' Perspective
• Ideas and Tools for Working with Parents and Families
• Involving Families in High School and College Expectations
• Helping Your Child Succeed: How Parents & Families Can Communicate Better With Teachers and School Staff
• New Skills for New Schools: Preparing Teachers for Family Involvement
• The Partnership for Family Involvement in Education
• School and Parent Interaction by Household Language and Poverty Status: 2002-03
• School-Family-Community Partnerships and the Academic Achievement of African American, Urban Adolescents
• New Skills for New Schools: Preparing Teachers in Family Involvement
• Working Constructively with Families
• Staying Involved: Approaches to Helping Our Middle School and High School Students Learn
• Team up for Kids! How Schools Can Support Family Involvement in Education
• Vehicles for Change

Parenting Involvement

• Adolescence: Are Parents Relevant to Students’ High School Achievement and Post-Secondary Attainment?
• Growing Up Drug Free: A Parent's Guide to Prevention
• Expanding Knowledge of Parental Involvement in Secondary Education: Effects on High School Academic Success
• Exploring The Links Between Family Strengths and Adolescent Outcomes, 2009
• Helping Parents Prepare for Parent-Teacher Conferences
• Meeting the Challenge: Getting Parents Involved in Schools
• Parent-Child Activities (from Washington Learning Systems)
• Parent and Family Involvement in Education, 2006-2007 School Year, from the National Household Education Surveys Program of 2007.
• Parent Involvement in Children’s Education: Efforts by Public Elementary Schools
• Parent Involvement in Education
• Parent Involvement at the Secondary School Level
• Parent Engagement as a School Reform Strategy. ERIC/CUE Digest Number 135
• Parent Partners: Using Parents to Enhance Education
• Parents' Guide to Truancy
• Parental Involvement in Education
• Parental perceptions of urban schools (2008) National School Boards Association
• Parental Involvement in Schools
• Parental Involvement in Student's Education During Middle School and High School
• Reframing Family Involvement in Education, 2009
• It Takes a Parent: Transforming Education in the Wake of the No Child Left Behind Act
• The Parenting Imperative: Investing in Parents so Children and Youth Succeed
• Steps You Can Take To Improve Your Children's Education
• Urgent Message for Parents
• U.S. Department of Education Publications for Parents

Programs and Policies

• Family Strengthening Policy Center
• Hispanic Parent Involvement in Early Childhood Education Programs.
• State Laws on Family Engagement in Education

Video Clips
• Parent Involvement in Schools

• 15+ Make Time to Listen, Take Time to Talk
• Annie E. Casey Foundation
• Beach Center on Disability
• Center for Family Involvement in Schools
• Center for Law and Education
• Center for Parent Leadership at the Prichard Committee
• Center for the Improvement of Child Caring
• Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships
• Children, Youth and Family Consortium Electronic Clearinghouse
• Families and Advocates Partnership for Education
• Families and Schools Together
• Families USA
• Family and Youth Services Bureau
• Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health
• Future of Children
• Grandparent Information Center
• Harvard Family Research Project
• Homework Heaven
• Human Development and Family Science Extension
• Institute for Urban and Minority Education
• Mid-Atlantic Regional educational Laboratory for Student Success (LSS)
• National Association of School Psychologists
• National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention
• National Clearinghouse of Families and Youth (NCFY)
• National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education
• National ParentNet Association
• National PTA
• Parents as Teachers National Center
• Parents Helping Parents
• Positive Parenting
• Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
• Stepfamily Association of American
• The Partnership for Family Involvement in Education

• The battle over homework: Common ground for administrators, teachers, and parents. Cooper, Harris. (2nd ed.). Corwin Press, Inc: Thousand Oaks, CA, US, 2001. xiii, 82pp.
• Connecting home, school and community: New directions for social research. Epstein, J. L., & Sanders, M. G. (2000). In M. T. Hallinan (Ed.), Handbook of the sociology of education (pp. 285 - 306), New York, NY: Kluwer Academic
• Developing Academically Supportive Behaviors Among Hispanic Parents: What Elementary Teachers and Administrators Can Do. Lara-Alecio, R.; Irby, B.J.; Ebner, R. Preventing School Failure v42, n1 (Fall, 1997):27
• The effect of parent participation in strategies to improve the homework performance of students who are at risk. Callahan, Kevin; Rademacher, Joyce A.; Hildreth, Bertina L.; Hildreth, Bertina L. Remedial & Special Education. PRO-ED: US, 1998 May. 19 (3): p. 131-141.
• Families, professionals, and exceptionality: Positive outcomes through partnerships and trust (5th ed.) Soodak, L. C., Erwin, E. J., Turnbull, A.P. & Turnbull, H.R. (2001) http://www.beachcenter.org/resource_library/beach_resource_detail_page.aspx?intResourceID=2267
• Free Appropriate Public Education: The Law and Children With Disabilities. H. Rutherford Turnbull and Ann Turnbull. Denver: Love, 2000.
• From Parent Involvement to Parent Empowerment and Family Support: A guide for Community Leaders, (1998). K. Briar-Lawson, H.A. Lawson, B.J. Rooney, V. Hansen, L.G. White, M.E. Radina, K. L. Herzog Institute for Educational Renewal
• From Parent Involvement to Parent Empowerment and Family Support: A resource guide for school community leaders, (1998). Briar-Lawson, Lawson, Rooney, Hansen, White, Radina & Herzog. Oxford, OH: The Danforth Foundation & The Institute for Educational Renewal at Miami University
• The how, whom, and why of parents’ involvement in children’s academic lives: More is not always better. Pomerantz, E., Moorman, E., & Litwack, S. (2007). Review of Educational Research, 77, 373-410.
• A new wave of evidence: The impact of school, family and community connections on student achievement. Henderson, A.T. & Mapp, K.L. (2002). Austin, TX: Southwest Educational Development Laboratory.
• Resolving homework-related communication problems: Recommendations of parents of children with and without disabilities. Harniss, Mark K.; Epstein, Michael H.; Bursuck, William D.; Nelson, Janet; Jayanthi, Madhavi. Reading & Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties. Taylor & Francis: US, 2001 Jul-Sep. 17 (3): p. 205-225.
• Rethinking family-school relations: A critique of parental involvement in schooling. De Carvalho, M.E.P. (2001). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• A School Parent Group Which Supports Families, Education and Community. Vandrick, S.(1999). In Education v120, n2 (Winter, 1999):249.
• Six pathways to healthy child development and academic success: The field guide to Comer schools in action. Comer, J.P., Joyner, E.T., & Ben-Avie, M. (2004) Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.

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