When you open the doors to a brand-new school, you’re not just filling classrooms, you’re building a community from the ground up. In August 2023, I opened our Pre-K through 4th grade school in ...

The Gary Community School Corp. is hosting several programs beginning Monday to mark Parent Engagement Week. School officials ...

As upcoming national elections loom, there is a concerning overshadowing of local political engagement. City councils, school boards and local commissions significantly shape our daily lives, ...

Jenna Bush Hager is opening up about how her parents — former President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush — spoiled ...

School security at Gary’s West Side Leadership Academy has already been tested just two months into the school year.

With the onset of COVID-19, parents have stepped-up and continued to play an active role in their children’s daily education activities. Teachers, schools, and districts have put their best foot ...

Family-engagement practitioners and researchers say educators are adopting systemic and sustained efforts to integrate parents into the fabric of their schools—a welcome shift for advocates who have ...

In a first-grade classroom, teachers hand out alphabet letters printed on yellow paper and call out a word for everyone to spell. “Your first word is ‘any,’ ” a teacher announces. Scrambled piles of ...

In my previous post, I highlighted what I characterized as the difference between parent involvement and parent engagement. Involvement, I suggested, was more of a “doing to” while engagement leaned ...

Providing Boulder Valley parents with the latest information and vetted resources, while also connecting them to other parents, has kept the Parent Engagement Network going for 20 years. As the ...

The Citywide Parent Team — a coalition of several dozen New Haven Public Schools parents dedicated to providing feedback to the district — met Thursday to discuss the importance of parental engagement ...

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