Family Involvement

Lessons Learned--Consumer Involvement in Step Ahead & First Steps: This indexed report explores the basic questions of consumer involvement: what is it? why is it needed? who are consumers? Successful strategies for involving consumers and dealing with barriers are also addressed.

For everyone | Mainly for Parents | Mainly for Educators

Indiana Center for Family, School & Community Partnerships: An overview of the Federally-funded statewide center that aims to raise the academic achievement of Indiana's children through meaningful family involvement.

Partners in Learning is a publication about families, schools and communities working together for kids. It is published three times per year for parents and parent educators, teachers and administrators, policy-makers and community leaders--because all play a vital role in ensuring children's success in school. Each issue focuses on a single topic. Current issue topics: Using Technology to Involve Families; Involving Dads; and Introducing the Indiana Center for Family, School & Community Partnerships.

Programs for Parents: This information sheet presents a brief description of some of the programs in Indiana (Family Math & Family Science, Links to Learning, Twenty-first Century Scholors Parents' Project, Teleparent) which are designed to help families help their children learn.

Parents and the Internet: FAQ*: Answers some *Frequently Asked Questions -- what's in it for parents, what if families don't have a computer at home, where parents can find out more information, how parents can help their child's school, and beginning sites to check out.

Helping Your Child Learn: It's as Easy as A-B-C: Gives parents some guidelines and practical suggestions for keeping their children on track in school.

A Planning Guide: Family involvement doesn't "just happen." This simple step-by-step guide helps parent groups think through what they want to do and why, figure out who will do it and how, follow through, and then find out how they can do it even better the next time.

Avenues for Funding: This parent information sheet provides some basic guidelines for finding money to support programs and projects, including tips on how to ask for funding and where to look for funding in your own community.

What Parents Learned: Learnings from several parent groups who worked on family involvement projects are discussed--in parents' words--in this brief information sheet. Learnings center around the issues of time, attentiveness, commitment, outreach and respect.

A Local Web Site Can Open Doors to All Types of Involvement Looks at developing school web sites from a family involvement perspective in the areas of parenting, communicating, volunteering, learning at home, decision-making, and community collaborating.

Tips for Building a Classroom or School Web Site Provides some basic guidance for getting started on a web site.

Involving Families through the WEB Provides a family involvement checklist for classroom, school and district web sites.

Involving Families: Begin with the Basics: Provides the A-B-C's of successful strategies for teachers on how to involve families.

Successful Family-School Partnerships: Shares some of the characteristics that effective partnerships have in common.

Simple Strategies for Involving Men: It's worth the effort! Gives some basic considerations and successful practices for getting men involved in schools and other childhood programs.

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