National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement
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For project support to strengthen family engagement educator preparation through spread and scale
Date
Jun. 08, 2023
Duration
18 months
Description
Teacher preparation programs often lack meaningful training on how to best engage families, which is one of the greatest barriers to increasing family engagement in schools. Since 2014, the National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement (NAFSCE) has advanced policies and practices for family and school engagement to promote student learning. NAFSCE is piloting a Family Engagement Pre-service Framework, to guide the expansion of family engagement curricula in educator preparation programs. Through this renewal grant, NAFSCE will (a) deepen its understanding of the Framework’s implementation across nine collaboratives in four areas: coursework, clinical practice, program design, and policy, (b) design an evaluation plan, and (c) build awareness of the Framework among state education agencies, districts, and education schools.
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For project support to strengthen family engagement educator preparation through spread and scale
Date
Jun. 09, 2022
Duration
12 months
Description
Research shows that teachers’ lack of preparation is one of the greatest barriers to increasing family engagement in schools. Since 2014, the National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement (NAFSCE) has advanced high-impact policies and practices for family, school, and community engagement to promote student learning. NAFSCE’s Family Engagement Pre-service Educator Preparation Initiative is piloting a Family Engagement Pre-service Framework, to guide the expansion of family engagement curricula in institutions of higher education.Through this renewal grant, NAFSCE will continue to build the capacity of and empower educators and administrators to plan for and implement research-based, high-impact strategies to support student achievement and school improvement.
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For project support of the pre-service teacher training framework
Date
Mar. 04, 2021
Duration
15 months
Description
Research shows that teachers’ lack of preparation is one of the greatest barriers to increasing family engagement in schools. Since 2014, the National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement (NAFSCE) has advancedhigh-impact policies and practices for family, school, and community engagement to promote student learning. NAFSCE’s Family Engagement Pre-service Educator Preparation Initiative is piloting a Family Engagement Pre-service Framework, to guide the expansion of family engagement curricula in institutions of higher education. With Corporation support, NAFSCE convened the Family Engagement Consortium on Pre-service Educator Preparation, which brings faculty and states to develop the Pre-service Framework. Through this renewal grant, NAFSCE will support select institutes of higher education and state departments in the development, piloting, and evaluation of coursework, curricula, program requirements, and policy changes based on the recommendations outlined in the Family Engagement Pre-service Framework.
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For a project to support the Family Engagement Pre-service Educator Preparation Initiative
Date
Mar. 05, 2020
Duration
15 months
Description
Research shows that most teachers lack the necessary knowledge about how to communicate and collaborate with parents, with teachers identifying their lack of preparation as one of their greatest barriers to increased family engagement in schools. Since 2014, the National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement (NAFSCE) advances high-impact policies and practices for family, school, and community engagement to promote child development and improve student achievement. Through this first, planning grant, to NAFSCE will: (a) Form partnerships with four organizations regarded as thought-leaders in the field; (b), convene a Family Engagement Consortium on Pre-service Educator Preparation; (c) conduct a National Survey of Institutes of Higher Education to understand educator preparation for family engagement-related coursework; (d) disseminate learnings, and (e) develop a draft of a framework for pre-service preparation in family engagement.
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For a communications campaign to re-frame the conversation around family engagement
Date
Dec. 06, 2018
Duration
12 months
Description
Research suggests that well-designed school-family partnerships are a core strategy for improving schools and supporting equity. The National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement (NAFSCE) is a nonprofit association of leaders and member organizations collectively focused on advancing high-impact policies and practices for family and community engagement. Since 2009, NAFSCE has increased awareness and opportunities among practitioners and stakeholders through initiatives and partnerships, including a collaboration with the FrameWorks Institute to conduct a multi-disciplinary communications research to empirically identify the most effective ways of reframing the conversation about family engagement as a strategy to increase student achievement. With support from the Corporation, NAFSCE will create a National Alliance for Family Engagement that would unify practitioners in the field, promote tools and messaging, and share the reframing strategy with key stakeholders such as policy-makers and state education agencies.