- Below is a list of links that may be useful to families, educators, and those interested in family engagement in education.
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All Pro Dad:
- Provides information for families to encourage fathers to be involved in their children’s lives. Meetings for dads can be established in schools. Anyone can sign up for a daily email tip called, “Play of the Day.”
American Coalition for Fathers and Children:
- Dedicated to the creation of a family law system, legislative system, and public awareness which promote equal rights for ALL parties affected by divorce, the breakup of a family, or the establishment of paternity.
American Federation of Teachers:
- Representing the economic, social, and professional interests of classroom teachers.
At-Home Dad:
- Blog postings informing the general public on issues and topics concerning parents, particularly at-home dads.
Bay Area Male Involvement Network:
- Provides support to men working in the field of child development and provides technical assistance to schools and childcare centers that want to overcome the barriers to male involvement.
Black Alliance for Educational Option:
- Committed to expanding the educational options available to all families, regardless of income. Focus is on helping low income and working class black families by developing a public information campaign to reach parents about the choices available to them.
Center for Family Policy and Practice (CFFPP):
- Through the provision of technical assistance, policy research, and public education, CFFPP works to support low-income fathers and their families and develop public awareness of their needs.
Child Abuse Council:
- Works to stop abuse that is occurring, prevent abuse before it occurs and rebuild the child and family after abuse. Through programs, parents receive hands-on training, support and the information needed to face the many challenges and pleasures of raising healthy, happy and well-adjusted children.
Child and Teen Safety on the Internet:
Children, Youth and Family Consortium:
- A bridge to a wide range of information and resources about children and families, connecting research, teaching, policy, and community practice.
Colorín Colorado:
- A bilingual site for families and educators of English language learners.
Council for Exceptional Children (CEC):
- CEC advocates for appropriate governmental development, advocates for individuals with exceptionalities, and helps professionals obtain conditions and resources necessary for effective professional practice.
Davidson Institute for Talent Development:
- National nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting profoundly gifted students 18 and under, defined as those who score in the 99.9th percentile on IQ and achievement tests. Offers information and educational opportunities for professionals and parents in order to recognize, nurture, and support profoundly intelligent young people and to provide opportunities for them to develop their talents to make a positive difference.
Education Resource Organizations Directory:
- Districts can search this large, U.S. Department of Education-sponsored database to identify and contact organizations that provide information and assistance on a myriad of education-related topics.
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC):
- An online digital library of education research and information that provides ready access to education literature to support the improvement of practice in learning, teaching, educational decision-making, and research.
English-Spanish Glossary
- Common English to Spanish translations for use in college documents developed and maintained by Austin Community College in Texas.
Families and Work Institute:
- Identifies emerging issues, and then conducts rigorous research that often challenges common wisdom, provides insight and knowledge, and inspires and leads to change.
Family & Community Outreach, Florida Department of Education:
- Provides resources, training, recognition, and technical assistance for parents, volunteers, schools and communities to support families in making choices that will promote a high quality education for their children.
Family Education Network:
- Recommendations on the best of the Internet’s content, resources and shopping for parents, teachers, and kids.
Family First:
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The mission of Family First is to strengthen the family by establishing family as a top priority in people’s lives and by promoting principles for building marriages and raising children.
Family Friendly Schools:
- Dedicated to helping schools and districts around the country to increase student achievement by developing networks of integrated relationships between leadership, staff, and families that creates a culture of high performance and learning outcomes.
Family Involvement Network of Educators (FINE):
- A community of thousands of educators, practitioners, policymakers, and researchers dedicated to strengthening family-school-community partnerships. FINE is part of the Harvard Family Research Project.
FCAT 2.0 (Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test® 2.0:
- Information on Florida State Courts Self-Help Programs that deal with family-related legal issues affecting children, such as adoption, child abuse, child support, parenting coordination, and family mediation.
Florida Department of Education:
- A source of helpful information, statistics and resources for parents, teachers, students, and administrators.
Florida Diagnostic and Resources System (FDLRS)
- Provides diagnostic and instructional support services to families of students with exceptionalities and to district exceptional student education programs statewide in Florida.
Florida Family Law Self-Help Centers:
- Information on Florida State Courts Self-Help Programs that deal with family-related legal issues affecting children, such as adoption, child abuse, child support, parenting coordination, and family mediation.
Florida Inclusion Network (FIN)
- Provides learning opportunities, consultation, and training support for educators, families, and community members resulting in the inclusion of all students
Florida Parent Teacher Association (PTA):
- Seeks to unite home, school, and community for all children by raising home life standards, securing adequate laws for the care and protection of children and youth, and uniting educators and the general public.
Florida School Choice:
- Information on scholarship programs, private schools, public school choice and home education.
Great Schools:
- Preschool, elementary, middle and high school information for public, private, and charter schools nationwide.
Greater Educational Opportunities (GEO) Foundation:
- Specializes in building community awareness, grassroots leadership and support for educational options to make educational choice a reality.
HandsNet:
- An online network fostering comprehensive thinking on approaches to improving the lives of low-income communities and communities of color.
Harvard Family Research Project:
- Linking families, schools, and communities to support success in school and in life by helping develop and evaluate strategies to promote the well being of children, youth, families and their communities.
Head Start Bilingual Glossary
- The Head Start Bilingual Glossary was designed to provide translation from English into Spanish of terms frequently used in Head Start. The glossary will be periodically updated through the Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center (ECLKC), Administration for Children and Families, Office of Head Start.
Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options:
- Addresses the crisis in Latino education by empowering Latino families with parental choice in education through free information and resources.
iMom:
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iMom’s unique focus is to equip mothers with information, ideas and encouragement to positively impact their children in areas such as wisdom, health, purpose and relationships.
International Reading Association:
- Supports literacy professionals through a wide range of resources, advocacy efforts, volunteerism, and professional development activities.
Kid Care (Florida):
- Affordable health insurance for children from birth through age 18.
Math and Parent Partners (MAPPS):
- The goal of the MAPPS program is to help students in grades K-12 improve their mathematics skills, in part through parental involvement. Through the MAPPS process, parents explore the meaning of mathematics to the future of their children, learn about changes in teaching math, and ultimately realize that both they and their children can be successful learning math.
Men’s Health Network:
- Reaching men and their families where they live, work, play, and pray with health prevention messages and tools, screening programs, educational materials, advocacy opportunities, and patient navigation.
Music Teachers National Association:
- Advancing the value of music study and music making to society and supporting the professionalism of music teachers.
National Association for Gifted Children:
- An organization of parents, teachers, educators, other professionals, and community leaders who unite to address the unique needs of children and youth with demonstrated gifts and talents as well as those children who may be able to develop their talent potential with appropriate educational experiences.
National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC):
- Dedicated to improving the well-being of all young children, with particular focus on the quality of educational and developmental services for all children from birth through age 8.
National Center for Family Literacy:
- Works together with families, communities and dedicated partners to bring about change to ensure that parents and children achieve their goals for success.
National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education (NCPIE):
- Monitors legislation, initiates projects, and shares information and ideas about research, programs, and policies.
National Council for the Social Studies:
- Provides leadership, services, and support for all social studies educators.
National Council of Teachers on English:
- Promotes the development of literacy, the use of language to construct personal and public worlds, and literacy to achieve full participation in society through the learning and teaching of English and the related arts and sciences of language.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics:
- Provides vision, leadership, and professional development to support teachers in ensuring equitable mathematics learning of the highest quality for all students.
National Education Association:
- Focusing the energy and resources of its many members on improving the quality of teaching, increasing student achievement, and making schools safer, better places to learn.
National Family Friendly Partnership Collaborative:
- Resources from and links to a group of state collaborative partners providing relevant materials to support family friendly schools. Coordinated through the Ohio Department of Education.
National Middle School Association:
- Provides professional development, journals, books, research, and other valuable information to assist educators on an ongoing basis.
National Network of Partnership Schools at Johns Hopkins University:
- Invites schools, districts, states and organizations to join together and use research-based approaches to organize and sustain excellent programs of family and community involvement that will increase student success in school.
National Parent Teacher Association (PTA):
- Provides parents and families with a powerful voice to speak on behalf of every child while providing the best tools for parents to help their children be successful students.
National PIRC Coordination Center:
- A technical assistance project serving Parental Information and Resource Centers (PIRCs) by supporting management capacity, improving service delivery, and providing access to research-based materials and effective practices regarding parent training and parental involvement that contribute to improved student academic achievement.
National Resource Center on Children and Families of the Incarcerated (NRCCFI):
- Provides information to raise awareness about the needs and concerns of the children of the incarcerated and their families informed by a combination of academic research and the experiences of the families and practitioners. Provides support to programs that serve families of the incarcerated by connecting program providers, policy makers, researchers, educators, correctional personnel, and the public with these families for dialogue, advocacy, action, and planning.
National Science Teachers Association:
- A member-driven organization that publishes books and journals for science teachers from kindergarten through college; holds four conferences on science education annually; provides ways for science teachers to connect with one another; and informs Congress and the public on vital questions affecting science literacy.
No Child Left Behind (NCLB):
- Find answers to questions about NCLB, the education law signed on January 8, 2002.
Office of Innovation and Improvement, US Department of Education (ED):
- Makes strategic investments in innovative educational practices; coordinates public school choice and supplemental educational services provisions of Elementary and Secondary Education Act; serves as ED’s liaison and resource to nonpublic education community; administers a number of teacher quality programs; and helps develop guidance on provisions and programs under NCLB.
Parents as Teachers (PAT):
- The PAT National Center provides professional development to prepare parent educators to reach parents with home visiting using a well-developed curriculum. The PAT model also includes advocacy and peer support with the ultimate goal of providing the knowledge, skills, and encouragement parents need to foster children’s optimal development during the earliest years, prenatally through age 5.
Parent Smart:
- Provides extensive and useful articles about education.
Parental Information and Resource Centers (PIRCs):
- PIRCs help implement successful and effective parental involvement policies, programs, and activities that lead to improvements in student academic achievement and strengthen partnerships among parents and educators in meeting the education needs of children. There is at least one PIRC in each state and territory in the US, 62 PIRCs in all. You are currently visiting the site of one of the two PIRCs in Florida, the Florida PIRC at the University of South Florida.
Project Appleseed:
- Educational resources and support for parents and families engaged in the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness in America’s public schools.
Redlands Christian Migrant Association (RCMA):
- Provides quality child care and early education for children of migrant farm workers and rural, low-income families throughout Florida.
Response to Intervention (RtI):
- Information for parents on Florida’s model for Response to Instruction/Intervention (RtI), including an explanation of what RtI is, how parents can be involved, key questions for parents to ask, and recommendations for parents if they believe their child is struggling in school.
SEDL National Center for Family and Community Connections with Schools:
- The Center links people with research-based information and resources that they can use to effectively connect schools, families, and communities. These include a searchable annotated bibliography database, research syntheses available in print and online formats, and other targeted materials such as briefs and handouts.
Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education (SITE):
- Promotes the development and dissemination of theoretical knowledge, conceptual research, and professional practice knowledge through the SITE conference, books, and collaborative projects with other organizations.
Tutor Hunt
- Whether you are a student or parent, we make it simple to locate the perfect tutor for you and your child. Browse thousands of tutors – sorted by distance from your home by subject, level, hourly rate, tutor qualifications, availability, and experience. Tutor Hunt is completely FREE for students as well as for tutors wishing to advertise.
U.S.A. Learns:
A free site for adults to learn English and improve basic reading, writing, speaking, and life skills.
VSA arts of Florida (VSAFL):
- Provides arts, education, and cultural opportunities for and by people with disabilities. In doing so, VSAFL's mission is to create a society in which people with disabilities can learn through, participate in and enjoy the arts. Headquartered at the University of South Florida, VSA arts of Florida (VSAFL) is a member of the international network of VSA arts, an affiliate of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
