District Leaders Network on Family and Community

Engagement Mini Conference

Sponsored by the Institute for Educational Leadership

∗ Office of Innovation and Improvement ∗ Arnie Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education

∗ Confirmed commitment to Family Engagement ∗ Wants to increase focus and support at USED

∗ Investing in Innovation (I3) Grants now apply to Family Engagement Proposals

∗ Developmental phase only this year ∗ Initiatives must meet 3 criteria

∗ Show impact to high-needs students ∗ Have a history of success ∗ Have matching funds from private sector for 15% of the total

request

Information from Presentations Federal Update

∗ Focus on Integration of public and private resources providing student and family support

∗ Discretionary Grants Funding ∗ Promise Neighborhoods - $60 million ∗ Parent Information Centers - $28.9 million

∗ Other Points of Interest ∗ ESEA Reauthorization – USED ∗ Wants to raise SEA FE set aside to 2% in order to create a competitive

grant for FE ∗ Title II – Encourage PD on creating school climate ∗ School leadership program to work with school administration in

building culture of family engagement ∗ School Partnership Grants

∗ Together for Tomorrow (tftchallenge.gov) ∗ Fatherhood initiative (www.fatherhood.org)

∗ Pre 3 - Prenatal through 3rd grade

(Federal Update Continued)

∗ Dr. Karen Mapp, Harvard Graduate School of Education ∗ Current Discussions at USED

∗ Capacity building – not just academic ∗ Everything linked to learning

∗ Parent-Teacher Home Visit Project ∗ http://www.pthvp.org/ ∗ Home visits for relationship building ∗ Carrie Rose Executive Director (home-visits@sbcglobal.net) ∗ Stanton Elementary School, D.C. 4th grade team meeting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YNsWrFiYfY ∗ Breaks Barriers ∗ Goal – to build trust, never an assessment ∗ Visit cross section of students ∗ Recommends starting w/ Pre-K

∗ Dr. Karen Mapp (continued) ∗ Need Dual Capacity Building

∗ Families AND district employees ∗ Need more capacity building with upper level administration ∗ Some districts including FE in school based evaluations ∗ Flamboyan Foundation has a rubric for teachers

http://flamboyanfoundation.org/ ∗ Hold PD with parents and teachers together

∗ Early Literacy through Family Engagement ∗ Early intervention at home ∗ If a student enters kindergarten without being ready to read, the gap

grows bigger as they progress through the grades

∗ Scholastic FACE Program ∗ Early Literacy, Family Involvement, Access to Books, Expanded

Learning, and Mentoring ∗ Read and Rise – Birth to 3rd Grade

Harvard Graduate School of Education Pre-K-12

Family-School Relationships Survey

The Harvard Graduate School of Education Pre-K-12 Family-School Relationships Survey is a survey designed to assess the effectiveness of Family Engagement programs and activities.

What is it?

∗Reliable and valid ∗ Created by survey specialists in conjunction with Dr. Karen Mapp

and Harvard doctoral students ∗ Includes input from families ∗ Increases credibility when using data to seek new or repeat

funding for an initiative

∗Also Available in Spanish ∗ Working on other common languages

∗ Creole ∗ Vietnamese ∗ Haitian

What’s So Special?

Possible Uses ∗ Conduct Overall Needs Assessments

∗ Administer at any time for this use ∗ Pre and Post assessments

∗ Measure change over time ∗ Administer to same group both times

∗ Measure Effectiveness of Specific Interventions ∗ Home visit program ∗ Series of curriculum nights or other informational workshops

∗ Compare FE in Different Models ∗ Magnet vs. “regular” school ∗ Community vs. School ∗ School w/family resource room vs. w/out

∗ Engagement Activity ∗ Discuss results of the survey at a meeting or training with group of

parents ∗ What’s good, what needs improvement? ∗ Brainstorm possible changes, activities

∗ Rubrics ∗ Being developed to help with analyzing data

∗ Smart Phone App ∗ Community Engagement Survey ∗ Staff Survey ∗ Replacing the word “school” w/district, or

classroom

Coming Soon

∗ 8 Scales ∗ Family Support ∗ Child Behavior ∗ Fit of the School for the Child ∗ Parent Self-Efficacy ∗ Family Engagement ∗ Barriers to Engagement ∗ School Climate ∗ Roles and Responsibilities

What’s in the Survey?

All Affect Distal Outcome of Increased Student Achievement

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Survey

Select “Preview” to see what the survey will look like

Select “Continue” to begin creating your survey

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The survey consists of 72 questions in 8 sections, one section for each of the matrixes (scales). The complete survey takes approx. 20 minutes . If you wish to shorten your survey, delete whole sections NOT individual questions as this will affect the reliability of the survey.

Delete HERE!!!!

NOT HERE!!!!

Once you have completed your survey, follow the usual steps to preview and launch.

Questions?