Partnerships Between Home and School: The Real Missing Link?
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Families are a central source of children’s learning and development and their influence cannot be ignored. Engaging with families can inform, complement, reinforce, and accelerate educators’ efforts to educate the whole child. Without strategic and continuous connections between families and educators, we cannot ensure that students are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged.
In this episode of the Whole Child Podcast, we examine research that overwhelmingly reinforces the need for family engagement, practices that create and sustain meaningful involvement, policies that can bring about systemic change, and barriers that we must overcome to achieve this vision. You’ll hear from
- Heidi Rosenberg, research analyst at the Harvard Family Research Project whose research projects address family involvement in education, complementary learning systems, and evaluation strategies.
- Sheila Jackson, director of the Department of School Improvement and the Comer School Development Program Office and Regional Training Center for Prince George’s County (Md.) Public Schools, who
