• FAMILY ENGAGEMENT AGENDA HOME
• CURRENT AND RECENT INITIATIVES
• The Jacksonville
Pre-Collegiate
Connections: College
Reach-Out Program
• Family Engagement
and Early Learning
Community
• Family Get-Together:
Literacy Through the Arts
• CONTACT INFORMATION
|
Mission |
The mission of the Family Engagement Agenda is to develop and test research based interventions designed to increase the active participation of families in their children’s preparation, motivation, and readiness for learning across multiple levels of education in formal and informal community settings. |
Goals |
- Identify and implement strategies to increase the active engagement of families as supporters and motivators of their children’s educational activities.
- Build the capacity of families to become more effective in their support of their children’s learning and achievement.
- Strengthen the connections between formal and informal learning environments and homes so they share the critical components associated with meaningful learning.
- Disseminate evidence based practices.
|
Intervention Model for Enhancing Family Engagement |
The development of specific family engagement initiatives is guided by an action oriented framework for change that begins with articulation of the desired outcomes for children and families, followed by the:
- Development of a conceptual framework for intervention
- review and synthesize relevant knowledge bases,
- analyze the degree of alignment between formal and informal learning environments (structure, behavioral patterns, attitudes) in which children and families function,
- identify physical, psychological and resource barriers that mitigate against the active engagement of families in their children’s learning.
- Design of intervention strategies to address identified barriers
- identify parameters of the intervention,
- generate potential strategies for the intervention,
- evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of potential strategies,
- formulate an intervention using strategies most likely to lead to desired outcomes.
- Field testing of the intervention for effectiveness and the extent to which desired outcomes are achieved.
- Refinement of the intervention and retest with new group of participants, if necessary.
- Dissemination of effective strategies to target audiences
|
|
