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January 25, 2019
Greetings Members, Partners, and Stakeholders,
We are excited to bring you our first Effective Practices Webinar of 2019 focused on effective,
innovative fatherhood programs. Three trailblazers in the field of father engagement will share their experiences and insights into this important area of family engagement.
For those interested in professional development, there are plenty of opportunities to learn what's happening in our field, and to share your knowledge with others. Be sure to check out the conferences listed in our Programs section, including this year's
National Family and Community Engagement Conference taking place in Reno, NV in July.
Finally, if you are ready to take your career to the next level, the launch of many Statewide Family Engagement Centers (SFECs) is creating some interesting new positions. Take a look below or in our
Career Center
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Best regards,
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Vito Borrello
Executive Director
National Association for Family, School, and Community
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Engaging Fathers - Programs that Work
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Wed. Jan. 30, 3:00 - 4:30 pm ET
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Research shows that children with involved, loving fathers are significantly more likely to do well in school, have healthy self-esteem, and exhibit positive social behaviors compared to children with uninvolved fathers. In this webinar, we will learn about some of the most effective fatherhood programs at work in the field today. Our presenters will share what they do in their own communities and what works across the country. Come with your questions for our panelists about best practices in father engagement.
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Michael is the founder of Strong Fathers-Strong Families, a nonprofit that focuses in family engagement programs. Michael has worked with more than 130,000 fathers and parents nationwide and was honored as a 2012 White House Fatherhood Champion of Change.
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With more than 25 years of community development experience, Kenneth Braswell is the Executive Director of Fathers incorporated, a not-for-profit organization that serves as a leader in the promotion of Responsible Fatherhood. He is the author of the children's book "Daddy There's a Noise Outside", a book that teaches parents how to speak to their children about protesting injustices in their community.
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Eric Snow is President and co-founder of WATCH D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students). Eric leads a dedicated team of family and school advocates, engaging hundreds of thousands of men and their families each year across 45 US states. Additionally, the program operates in Germany, Italy, and Japan.
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The Institute for Educational Leadership is proud to host the
2019 National Family and Community Engagement Conference
on July 10-12, 2019 in Reno, NV. This convening is a wonderful professional development and networking opportunity for state leaders, school and district leaders, administrators, educators, community-based organizations, researchers and families to come together and focus on solutions that enhance and expand engagement and improve student success through family-school-community partnerships. With pre-conference sessions, site-visits, 8 deep dives and over 70 workshops covering six strands, participants are sure to walk away with new skills and strategies that they can immediately apply to their work.
Learn more about the event.
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Hosted by the Harvard Graduate School of Education Professional Education, these programs address an urgent challenge or priority - from narrowing achievement gaps to leading inclusive schools - and provide educators with important context and data, as well as concrete solutions for expanding opportunity and achieving excellence with equity.
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The National Association for the Education of Young Children's Annual Conference, taking place in Nashville, TN from Nov. 20 - 23, is the world’s largest gathering of early childhood professionals, offering hundreds of engaging and informative sessions, poster displays, research panels, and more. NAEYC seeks proposals that address timely topics and current challenges faced by early childhood professionals. See this year's
tracks, topics & descriptions and learn more about the
how to submit a proposal.
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The mission of the Families Learning Conference, taking place in Louisville, KY, Nov. 4 - 6, is to equip educators, program staff, librarians, parent leaders, and others with best practices, strategies, and resources to help families succeed in accomplishing their educational goals. To achieve this mission, the National Center for Families Learning (NCFL) is calling on their network and peers to
submit presentation proposals
reflecting best practices in engaging families in education.
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The National Commission on Social, Emotional, & Academic Development began with the simple intention of listening—really listening—to young people, parents, teachers, school and district leaders, community leaders, and other experts. What they heard was profoundly hopeful. There is a remarkable confluence of experience and science on one point: Children learn best when we treat them as human beings, with social and emotional as well as academic needs. The promotion of social, emotional, and academic learning is not a shifting educational fad; it is the substance of education itself.
Learn more about their recommendations
for practitioners, individuals, and organizations who support young people.
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While classroom quality assessments can help programs identify teaching practices in need of improvement, there are few practical tools currently available that can help early care and education programs gauge the strength of supports for family engagement that matter most.
This brief, produced by the
National Center for Children in Poverty,
presents information about the new Family Engagement Assessment and Planning Tool, designed to help early care and education program staff engage in these tasks.
Learn more.
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“This is much more than a narrow labor agreement,” United Teachers Los Angeles president Alex Caputo-Pearl emphasized. “It’s a very broad compact around things that get at social justice, educational justice and racial justice.” Core issues addressed include class size reduction, an increase in support for community schools, and additional nurses, librarians, and counselors.
Read more about what this agreement means for the families of LAUSD.
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In an effort to desegregate schools, the San Antonio Independent School District, with the help of Chief Innovation Officer Mohammed Choudhury, launched the Diverse by Design initiative aimed at openly working to build diverse schools. Some steps the district is taking to improve school integration include redefining measures of poverty; improving family engagement and community outreach efforts; and seeking out families, if necessary, to improve diversity measures.
Learn more.
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Baltimore’s fathers are an untapped resource when it comes to educating children, say organizers of a Baltimore City Schools-led summit Saturday that drew more than 100 men, many with sons and daughters in tow.
During a daylong
Fatherhood Engagement Summit
at Frederick Douglass High School in Northwest Baltimore, fathers and other male caregivers could get help with job, health and legal services, take part in a yoga class or join breakout sessions such as one on raising daughters and another to help men handle stress and learn to forgive.
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With the help of WATCH D.O.G.S. (Dads Of Great Students), Foxboro Regional Charter School in Massachusetts has started a new initiative for fathers and male figures to be involved in volunteering.
“I’ve always wanted to have a
male engagement program
at FRCS so last year we implemented a pilot WATCH D.O.G.S. program in the elementary school,” she said. “Between 200 and 300 dads attended the kickoff event last year, as well as this year.”
Learn more.
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“Trust in our organization is built with every interaction. Every time we get on the ground to tie the shoe of a student. Every time we meet a parent in the parking lot to tell them something great about their child. Every time we make a contact with a family member of one of our staff members to let them know how much they are valued," says Joe Sanfelippo, the superintendent of the Fall Creek School District in Fall Creek, Wisconsin.
Read more
about how Joe is building a culture where trust is "the norm."
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"Nine out of 10 Latino parents say it's very important their child earns a college degree," says Editorial Director Carol Lloyd of GreatSchools.org. "With our
bilingual newsletters
, we hope to give parents the power and knowledge they need to achieve the dream of a better future for their children and community."
Learn more.
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The Director manages the day to day operations and oversight of all FACET project activities to ensure completion of project goals, objectives and activities
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The Senior Training Specialist is responsible for developing and providing training, technical assistance and outreach activities to families and professionals to support family engagement and literacy that ensures student success and meets the requirements of SFEC. Learn more
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Learn more.
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MAEC is looking for an experienced and dynamic leader who will manage and develop the newly formed Collaborative Action for Family Engagement Center (CAFE). The CAFE Program Manager will lead a small team of professionals who will monitor and coordinate the delivery of high quality FSCE programming and technical assistance between five partner organizations to underserved communities across Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Learn more.
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MAEC is looking to hire two dynamic professionals who will support the management and development of the newly formed Collaborative Action for Family Engagement Center (CAFE). The CAFE Senior Program Associates will monitor and coordinate the delivery of high quality FSCE programming and technical assistance between four partner organizations to underserved communities across Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Learn more.
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NAFSCE's Career Center
features a searchable job bank focused solely on family engagement opportunities. Posted positions are promoted in NAFSCE News, reaching thousands of family engagement professionals each month.
Members can also post their resume in our searchable Resume/CV database.
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When you support NAFSCE, you are supporting initiatives that have the potential to change the way our country thinks about the family's role in our children's education. From our partnership with the NEA to develop higher-education training for future teachers, to our work with the FrameWorks Institute to create a fundamental shift in the way people think about engaging parents and caregivers, NAFSCE's work will have a profound effect on how we all think about family engagement.
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