TOPIC: Parent/Home Involvement and Engagement in Schools

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Books and Chapters
• Home Involvement, Engagement, and Re-engagement in Schooling in Transforming Student and Learning Supports: Developing a Unified, Comprehensive, and Equitable System

Self-study Survey
• Home Involvement, Engagement, and Re-engagement in Schooling

Policy & Practice Report
• Enhancing Home Involvement to Address Barriers to Learning: A Collaborative Process

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

Guides to Practice
• School-Community Partnerships: A Guide .
• 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
• Students & Family Assistance Programs and Services to Address Barriers to Learning

Information Resources

• About Parenting Styles and School Performance 
• The Impact of Parent Expectations and Home and Neighborhood Influences on Education Goals  
• Overparenting as a Barrier to Development, Learning, and Well-being
• LGBTQ+ Students: Family Reactions and School Support
• Neglect Experienced by Children of Substance Abusing Parents: Implications for Schools

Hot Topic
• Homework as a Mental Health Concern

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

Newsletters
• Engaging and Re-engaging Families When a Student is Not Doing Well (Winter, 2012)
• About School, Home, and Community Connecting and Collaborating to Address Barriers to Learning (Summer, 2011)
• Engaging the Strengths of Families, Youth, and Communities in Rebuilding Learning Supports (Spring, 2007)

Practice & Guidance Notes
• Engaging and Re-engaging Families When a Student is Not Doing Well
• Helping and Socialization
• 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

Student and Family Assistance Programs and Services-Outcomes
• School-Owned and/or Based Support Programs
• School-Linked Projects and Services

Academics
• Exploring Systems-Level Family Engagement Practices Across Elementary and PK-8 Schools
• Parental involvement and education outcomes of their children
• Parent Participation in Early Intervention/Prevention Services: The Case for Flexible Paraprofessional-led Services
• New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement
• Parental engagement in learning and schooling: Lessons from research

Facts, Studies, and Statistics
• 7 Tips for Teachers on Dealing with Difficult Parents
• A New Wave of Evidence:The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement
• Barriers to Parent-School Involvement for Early Elementary Students
• Family Advocacy, Support, and Education in Children's Mental Health
• Questions Parents Ask About Schools
• Top 5 insights for improving family-school collaboration during COVID and beyond
• What We Now Know About Parental Engagement

General
• Bibliography of Family Involvement Research
• Engaging and collaborating with families across multitiered systems of support
• Family engagement
• Family and school engagement
• Joining Together to Create a Bold Vision for Next Generation Family Engagement: Engaging Families to Transform Education
• Embracing a New Normal: Toward a More Liberatory Approach to Family Engagement
10 Ideas for Engaging Parents
• Exploring Involvement Expectations for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Parents: What We Need to Know in Teacher Education
• Family engagement in education and intervention: Implementation and evaluation to maximize family, school, and student outcomes
• How to Deal With Difficult Parents
• How to Do Virtual Parent-Teacher Conferences
• How Schools Can Practice Family Engagement to Dismantle Longstanding Educational Inequities
• National Network of Partnership Schools at Johns Hopkins University
• Neighborhood resources and stressors associated with parenting inputs for children's learning and development
• Parental involvement in education during middle school: Perspectives of ethnically diverse parents, teachers, and students
• Reaching Out to Diverse Populations: What can Schools Do to Foster Family School Connections?
• Ready, Willing and Able? Kansas City Parents Talk About How to Improve Schools and What They Can Do to Help
• Setting Up Strong Family Engagement in the Early Grades
• Welcoming Schools
• West Virginia online support for families

Mental and Physical Health
• A Strategic and Shared Agenda to Advance Mental Health in Schools Through Family and System Partnership

Research
• Effectiveness of parent-engagement programs to reduce truancy and juvenile delinquency: A systematic review
• Training for Family Involvement / Measure of Beliefs about Participation in Family-Centered Service Delivery

Partnerships
• 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?
• Family and community engagement self-assessment
• Family Engagement Framework for California School Districts
• How to Increase Family Involvement with Connection
• School, Family, and Community Connections
• Involving Families in High School and College Expectations
• Home-to-School Connections Guide: Tips, Tech Tools, and Strategies for Improving Family-to-School Communication
• Strengthening School-Family Partnerships
• Understanding Strengths in Adolescent–Parent Relationships
• Working systematically in action: Engaging family and community

Parenting Involvement
• Authoritative Parenting Promotes Adolescent School Achievement and Attendance
• Collaborating for success: Parent engagement toolkit
• Conducting Parent and Caregiver Focus Groups
• Conducting the Parent and Family Involvement Survey for your school(s): Instructions and Guidelines
• Family Engagement: Developing Relationship-Rich Partnerships
• Family Engagement Toolkit
• Family Centered Community Change
• Getting parents involved
• Growing Up Drug Free: A Parent's Guide to Prevention
• Handbook for family and community engagement
• The impact of family engagement
• Making Meaningful Connections: Facilitating Schoolwide Family Engagement With Culturally Diverse Families
• Needs of Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
• Parent Engagement in Schools
• Parent Engagement as a School Reform Strategy. ERIC/CUE Digest Number 135
• Parent Involvement Focus Group Questions for Parents, Teachers and Administrators
• Parent Involvement in Education
• Parental Involvement in Education
• The Parenting Imperative: Investing in Parents so Children and Youth Succeed
• Parents' Guide to Student Success
• Pathways to Parental Engagement: Contributions of Parents, Teachers, and Schools in Cultural Context
• Parents' Guide to Student Success
• Parenting Styles, Academic Achievement and the Influence of Culture
• Profiles of Parenting Autonomy Support and Control: A person-Centered Approach in Students' Adjustment to the Transition to Middle School
Reframing Family Involvement in Education, 2009
• Resources for Parents and Families, U.S. Department of Education
• The role of perceived parent monitoring and support on urban child and adolescent problem behavior
• Toolkit for Schools: Engaging Parents and Families to Support Social and Emotional Climate and Learning
• Unlocking the "How": Designing Family Engagement Strategies That Lead to School Success

Programs and Policies
• The Benefits and Challenges of Home-School Communication
• Hispanic Parent Involvement in Early Childhood Education Programs.
• School-Based Family Intervention Services