THE CHALLENGE

The Challenge helps us understand the reasons why educators and families have struggled to build trusting and effective partnerships.

RESOURCES

These resources explain the nature of the challenge in depth.

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Beyond the Bake Sale

This seminal work is a user-friendly guide for assessing a school’s openness to partnerships, and provides many examples of successful practice.

Essential Conversation

Sara Lawerence Lightfoot’s book narrates the complexities of parent-teacher relationships given their shared lack of exposure to effective practice.

Hoover-Dempsey & Sandler Model

This process sheds light on the psychological factors that lead parents to become engaged in their children’s education.

Carnegie Challenge Paper

The Carnegie Foundation issued a challenge to the field that would envision next-generation family engagement.

Powerful Partnerships: A Teacher's Guide to Engaging Families for Student Success

This book begins with a deep look at the mindsets and core beliefs that are required to bond with families.

These systematic efforts are seeking to address the lack of training for educators on family and community engagement

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Hunter College Course

A new Doctorate of Education (Ed.D.) program in instructional leadership at Hunter includes a course on family and community engagement.

District-to-District Learning Initiative

A collaborative effort amongst several education agencies in California is has convened a peer-to-peer learning cohort of leading districts in order to inform the future of California’s FACE improvement effort.