Family and Community Engagement

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Family and community engagement is a proven strategy for raising student achievement and strengthening schools. Organizing groups across the country in communities that have been poorly served by our education system are building the power to demand and win real improvements.

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When parents acquire the tools and training to engage meaningfully in decision making, they become champions of educational justice and have the power to transform education.

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Research shows that an authentically engaged community improves schools – not just by participating in school events, but also by helping to shape reform.

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The work of teachers unions in Chicago and nationwide offers a promising model of teacher and community engagement.

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Through family engagement and expanded learning time, a partnership between the district and a community organization in Lowell, Massachusetts, serves the social and academic needs of refugee youth and other English learners and their families.

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In San Francisco, a partnership between a K–8 school and a nonprofit writing program helps students who are achieving below grade level find their voices and blossom into confident thinkers and writers.

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A nonprofit in San Francisco partners with area high schools to serve immigrant and refugee students, including a growing number of undocumented, unaccompanied minors, who face not only learning English but also trauma and a host of other issues.

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