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Rangel, David E.; Shoji, Megan N.; Gamoran, Adam – American Educational Research Journal, 2020
Research suggests that school-based parent networks have significant benefits for children's education, yet scholars know very little about how such relationships form and develop over time. This study uses interview and survey data with elementary school parents in predominantly low-income Latinx communities to examine how parents meet one…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Parent Participation, Elementary School Students, Parent Attitudes
Barblett, Lennie; Barratt-Pugh, Caroline; Knaus, Marianne; Cooper, Trudi – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2020
This paper reports on findings from four case studies, as part of a large-scale study undertaken to evaluate the KindiLink initiative across Western Australia in remote, regional and metropolitan communities. KindiLink is an educator-led playgroup initiative in public school sites in Western Australia targeted at Aboriginal children and their…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Indigenous Populations, Play, Public Schools
Ogden, Terje; Sørlie, Mari-Anne – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2018
This postscript presents the implementation and evaluation of family and community based intervention programs for children and young people implemented in Norway. The Norwegian experiences and results illustrate how evidence-based programs developed in the U.S. have been transported across geographical and language borders, implemented…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness, Family Programs
Popkin, Susan J.; Runes, Charmaine; Anderson, Theresa; McDaniel, Marla; Coffey, Amelia; Okoli, Adaeze; Gaddy, Marcus; Spauster, Patrick – Urban Institute, 2019
The Annie E. Casey Foundation launched Family-Centered Community Change (FCCC) in 2012 to support three local partnerships seeking to help parents and children in high-poverty neighborhoods succeed together. These partnerships, located in Buffalo, New York; Columbus, Ohio; and San Antonio, Texas, are each developing a more integrated set of…
Descriptors: Community Change, Poverty, Neighborhoods, Low Income
Knapp, Nancy Flanagan – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2016
The Reading Apprenticeship is an intervention that has been shown in previous studies to increase struggling readers, tested reading achievement by 8 to 9 months during a 12 week, in-school program. This article reports on the first study of the Reading Apprenticeship method conducted in the summer using parents, rather than supervised volunteers,…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Reading Programs, Intervention, Reading Achievement
Wall, Kate; Burns, Helen; Llewellyn, Anna – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2017
Mind the Gap is a family learning project aiming to facilitate intergenerational engagement with learning in schools through the vehicle of a stop-motion animation project. Implicit in the animation process is reflective and strategic thinking that helps to make the process of learning explicit (Learning to Learn: Wall et al.). The animation…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Family Programs, Animation, Program Descriptions
Baron, Lorraine M. – Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, 2015
In this article, the author explores the link between citizens' quantitative literacy abilities and their financial prosperity. The author applies a robust social justice research vision and a Freirean approach to describe personal flourishing within the context of numerical, mathematical, and financial literacy (NMFL) education. Four families…
Descriptors: Money Management, Teaching Methods, Guidelines, Social Justice
Doggett, Diana; Marken, Dory M.; Caldwell, Diana J. – Journal of Extension, 2014
Grandparents raising grandchildren represent a population of adults who confront complex interpersonal and environmental challenges. The intent of this case study was to gather and interpret evaluative data to better understand the impact of a 1-day community education program for grandparents who raise their grandchildren. Extension's philosophy…
Descriptors: Grandparents Raising Grandchildren, Community Education, Family Programs, Program Effectiveness
Oser, Rick; Beck, Ellen; Alvarado, Jose Luis; Pang, Valerie Ooka – Multicultural Perspectives, 2014
A comprehensive school and community wellness plan was developed and implemented to transform "Lemon Grove Academy" for the Sciences and Humanities, an urban school, where student achievement and faculty satisfaction has soared. The school has become the center for the local neighborhood where culture, language, and equity are valued.…
Descriptors: Wellness, Holistic Approach, Urban Schools, Academic Achievement
Peercy, Megan Madigan; Martin-Beltran, Melinda; Daniel, Shannon M. – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2013
This qualitative case study examines an after-school, bilingual family literacy programme that brought together several groups to form a community of practice (CoP) that worked to support the literacy development of English language learners and their families. We explored the following question: How do parents, teachers, students, and other…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Van Voorhis, Frances L. – Education and Urban Society, 2011
Families, whether guided or instructed to, often become involved in their children's homework. This study examined the effects of a weekly interactive mathematics program (Teachers Involve Parents in Schoolwork-TIPS) on family involvement, emotions and attitudes, and student achievement. Students and families (N=153) from four urban elementary…
Descriptors: Homework, Mathematics Achievement, Family Involvement, Longitudinal Studies
Rodriguez-Valls, Fernando – Bilingual Research Journal, 2011
This article presents the outcomes of a biliteracy project designed, following an action-learning methodology, to supplement the district-mandated literacy programs with afterschool reading cooperatives where 100 families whose children were enrolled in an elementary school located in the Imperial Valley, California, and teachers dialogically read…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Literacy, Teaching Methods, Bilingualism
Iddings, Ana Christina DaSilva – Theory Into Practice, 2009
This article reports on a family literacy program that began with the creation and implementation of a Welcome Center in an elementary school in the Southwest United States. This center was intended to be a place where recent immigrant students and their families, teachers, as well as other community members, came together to participate in…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Immigrants, Family School Relationship, Empowerment