Establishing a Practically-Informed Agenda for Research to Transform Family, School, and Community Partnership

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Thursday 7:45 am
  In Roundtable Session: Promoting family-school engagement

Abstract

Responding to the 2026 annual meeting theme to reflect on how to "Understand critical needs and corresponding possibilities for transformation in the field to create research to help document, transform, and address those needs,” The Family, School, and Community Partnership SIG invites researchers to attend this session to discuss needs and create networks and collaborations to respond to them. We partnered with the National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement to collect data from practitioners and researchers focused on improving family, school, and community engagement and hope to establish a practically-informed agenda for research for the next ten years. We invite you to attend this session, where we will use appreciative inquiry to chart a course for our field that responds to the most pressing needs in the field.

Authors

• Shana J. Haines, University of Vermont

• Kristin Vogel-Campbell, North Point Educational Service Center

• Holly M. Kreider, Heising-Simons Foundation

• Maggie Caspe, New York University

• Jacqueline Lynch, Florida International University

• Veronica Kang, University of Maryland

• Megumi Grace Hine, Washington University in St. Louis

• Stephany Cuevas, Chapman University

• Lori Delale-O'Connor, University of Pittsburgh

• Cristina C. Santamaria Graff, Indiana University - Indianapolis

• Susana Beltran-Grimm, Portland State University

• Judy Paulick, University of Virginia

• Nicole Megan Edwards, Rowan University

• Thomas J Capretta, The Ohio State University

• Parker Goss, University of Vermont