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Family Engagement
Family engagement, the shared responsibility between families, schools, and communities to collaboratively support children’s learning, is a critical driver of student success across all ages. Many schools face challenges building strong, consistent partnerships with families, limiting the potential for these relationships to support student achievement, attendance, and overall well-being. Strengthening our knowledge of evidence-based strategies to deepen trust, improve communication, and support collaboration between families and schools represents a powerful investment opportunity to help students, educators, and families thrive together.
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Evaluation of the National Expansion of PBS SoCalʼs Family Math Initiative
This mixed-methods study evaluated the implementation of workshops and activities for Family Math, a bilingual, free, play-based tool designed by PBS SoCal that focuses on building math positivity, confidence, and knowledge of foundational math skills for families, particularly those who are socioeconomically disadvantaged, with children ages two to five years old.
Completed
Hidden in Plain Sight: A Way Forward for Equity-Centered Family Engagement
This is a national online survey of 1,405 parents, 300 teachers, and 317 principals who work in public elementary, middle, and high schools.
Completed
Sparking Connections: Evaluations of Mobile Messaging on Responsive Caregiving
This report summarizes studies of two similar 12-week mobile messaging programs designed to help parents of young children support their children’s development: Bright by Text and Consejos de Univision.
Completed
Examining PowerMyLearning’s Family Playlists’ Impact on Student Social Emotional Learning and Science Mastery Through Short-Cycle RCTs
This reports on a series of short-cycle randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of PowerMyLearning’s Family Playlists.
Open Research Questions
Completed study findings aligned with these questions in our repository include:
- Engaging Families Leads to Student Academic Gains and Increased Attendance: How TalkingPoints Improved Outcomes in a Large Urban School District
- Evaluation of the National Expansion of PBS SoCal’s Family Math Initiative
- Effective Family-School Partnerships Lead to Improved Student Attendance: How TalkingPoints’ Universal Family Engagement Platform Decreased Absence in Tulsa Public Schools
- Sparking Connections: Evaluations of Mobile Messaging on Responsive Caregiving
In-progress studies that address these questions are:
Completed study findings aligned with this question in our repository include:
- Sparking Connections: Evaluations of Mobile
- Examining PowerMyLearning’s Family Playlists’ Impact on Student Social Emotional Learning and Science Mastery Through Short-Cycle RCTs
In-progress studies that address this question are:
Completed study findings aligned with these questions in our repository include:
- Effective Family-School Partnerships Lead to Improved Student Attendance: How TalkingPoints’ Universal Family Engagement Platform Decreased Absence in Tulsa Public Schools
- Engaging Families Leads to Student Academic Gains and Increased Attendance: How TalkingPoints Improved Outcomes in a Large Urban School District
In-progress studies that address these questions are:
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