Family Engagement Resources
Minnesota Head Start COVID-19 Response Fact Sheet
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Supporting Children and Ourselves: Coping during COVID-19
Click Here, Kevin Plummer, Ph.D.
The Perry Preschoolers and Late Midlife: A Study in Design-Specific Inference
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Time Well Spent: Home Learning Activities and Gains in Children’s Academic Skills in the Prekindergarten Year
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Building Relationships with Families
8 Strategies for Building Relationships with ELLs in Any Learning Environment
Click Here, Colorín Colorado is a national multimedia project that offers a wealth of bilingual, research-based information, activities, and advice for educators and families of English language learners (ELLs).
Building Partnerships with Families Series Essential resource
Click Here, Early Childhood Learning & Knowledge Center (ECLKC)
Build Relationships with Families
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Building Strong Relationships from a Distance
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Family-School Relationships Survey
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Reframing Family Engagement: 6 Shifts: Where Is Your School or Organization?
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Supportive Family-Staff Relationships
Click Here, Early Childhood Learning & Knowledge Center (ECLKC)
Community Engaged Parenting Education
Braver Angels
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Community Engaged Parent Education: Strengthening Civic Engagement Among Parents and Parent Educators
Click Here, William Doherty, Jenet Jacob, and Beth Cutting, Family Relations, 58 (July 2009): 303–315.
One Small Step
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Ecological Model
Psycho-Ecological Systems Model: A Systems Approach to Planning and Gauging the Community Impact of Community-Engaged Scholarship
Click Here, Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 24 (1), Fall 2017.
Links
Greater Good Magazine
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Links
Head Start - Family Engagement
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PACER - Family Engagement
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UM Extension
Courses and Events
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COVID-19 Resources
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Family News
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Overindulgence (partnership with Jean Illsley Clarke)
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Parenting during COVID-19: It’s a marathon, not a sprint
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Parenting teens during COVID-19
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Real Life, Good Food: Recipes, cooking tips, and physical activity ideas for a healthier life
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U Got This (text messages for parents and caregivers in English & Spanish)
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Other Links
Hunger Solutions Minnesota
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Professional Development Opportunities
Helping Your Children Manage COVID-19 Realities: Beyond the Facts and Into the Effects on our Lives
Click Here, Free Webinar, Anne Gearity, Minnesota Association for Children's Mental Health
The Holistic Approach to Engaging Fathers - October 29, 2020
Click Here, Minnesota Fathers & Families Network
MDE and TNTP Training Series Designed to Support all Minnesota Districts in Strengthening their Student Engagement Approach
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Providing Distance Family Support: What do I say? How can I help? A Conversation with NCPMI Faculty
Click Here, National Center on Pyramid Model Innovations
Radical Family Engagement
A Journey Like No Other, ACF’s Office of Early Childhood Development (ECD) is hosting a series of conversations with key cross-sector partners and targeted engagements to bring new insights for how RADICAL family engagement could change the landscape of education and early childhood systems.
- What do Parents Need and What Can They Do?, October 26, 12:30 PM
- What do Schools Need and What Can They Do?, October 27, 12:30 PM
- What Does Government Need and What Can They Do?, October 28, 11 PM
- What Do Organizations Need and What Can They Do?, October 29, 12:30 PM
- What Actions Can We Take Together?, October 30, 12:30 PM
Professional Learning Modules
Braver Angels
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Social Connectedness and Health
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Social Connectedness: Evaluating the Healthy People 2020 Framework: The Minnesota Project
Click Here, Minnesota Department of Health (MDH)
StoryCorps
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Resources
A Parent's Bill of Rights
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Parent and Family Digital Learning Guide
Click Here, US Dept of Education, Office of Educational Technology
Self-Care
An Invitation to Act on the Value of Self-Care: Being a Whole Person in All That You Do
Click Here, Fiebig, J.H., Gould, E.R., Ming, S. et al., Behavior Analysis Practice 13, 559–567 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-020-00442-x
Employer Toolkit: Work Design for Health
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Healing in Nature: How Forests Heal People
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Important Goals, Meanings, and Relationships in Flourishing and Languishing States: Towards Patterns of Well-being
Click Here, Applied Research in Quality of Life, 16, 573–609 (2021).
School Leaders Take Note: Teacher Care Is a Lot More Than Self-Care
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Supporting Your Employees During Hard Times: A Manager's Guide
Click Here, UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
William James College Faculty Discuss Mental Health in the Time of Coronavirus
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