Exploring School-Family-Community Partnerships Across Three Urban School Districts

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 21
  In Roundtable Session: Partnerships Across Urban Contexts

Abstract

This presentation will present the findings of an exploratory qualitative focused on school-family- community engagement efforts across three urban districts. The study explored the following research questions: What strategies are districts with high linguistic diversity using to communicate with and engage families? How do these strategies align with evidence-based research that effectively engages families? What strategies are districts using to engage community partners? Data included semi-structured interviews with administrators in the Office of Family and Community Engagement. The findings revealed the strategies the districts used to communicate with multilingual parents; the resources they offered to parents; the initiatives that were created to involve parents; the strategies used to leverage community resources; and the challenges or successes in communicating with families.

Authors

• Vera J. Lee, Drexel University

• Barbara Hoekje, Drexel University

• Kristine Lewis Grant, Drexel University