Success in Education
Websites
- Building Parent Trust in the Special Education Setting
How one school seeks to build relationships, communication, and collaboration with its families in Special Education. - Edutopia: Family Engagement Resource Roundup
Gives tips, strategies, and resources to help improve the connection from home to school and expand parent involvement. - Home Works! The Teacher Home Visit Program
Through home visits school staff can create formal and informal opportunities to build trusting communicate between home and school.
- Center for Parent Information and Resources, Supports, Modifications, and Accommodations for Students
Discusses individualized adaptations, accommodations, and modifications and how they are made in regards to instruction and other classroom activities. - Parent Teacher Home Visit Project
Discusses how Parent Teacher Home Visits can build relationships, skills, and engagement for families, educators, and students and enable educators, parents, and students to work together toward the student’s success.
Articles/Publications
- The Dual Capacity-Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships
Based in existing research and best practices, this report is designed to act as a scaffold for the development of family engagement strategies, policies, and programs. Developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Education.
- Family Engagement in Education - Seven Principles for Success National Resource Center of Charter School
This guidebook explores seven family engagement principles, focusing on strategies. Applicable to traditional public schools and independent schools.
- Partnering with Families and Communities by Joyce Epstein and Karen Clark Salinas - Educational Leadership Volume 61, No 8. Creating a School Learning Community
- Educating Our Children Together: A Sourcebook for Effective Family-School-Community Partnerships
Provides formal and informal ideas for communication between school and home. - Home-To-School Connections Guide
Gives tips, technology tools, and strategies for Improving Family-to-School communication. - Toolkit of Resources for Engaging Parents and Community as Partners in Education, Part 3: Building Trusting Relationships With Families and Community Through Effective Communication
Focuses on cross-cultural and two-way communication as ways to enhance family and community engagement. - United States Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights Guidance on the Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Extracurricular Activities (
PDF; 500k; 13pp.)
A “Dear Colleague” letter from the US Department of Education clarifying schools responsibilities in providing opportunities for participation in nonacademic and extracurricular services and activities.
Videos
- Isn’t it a pity? The real problem with special needs TEDx event with Torrie Dunlap
This talk exams three mental models of disability, speaks to accommodations and modifications, and encourages access and full participation to school events and extracurricular activities. - CADRE Webinar, Trusting Family-Professional Partnerships: Preventing, Resolving, and Moving Beyond Disputes
Discusses issues with IEPs, and aspects of trusting partnerships such as communication, professional competence, respect, commitment and equality. Includes a Family-Professional Partnership self-assessment scale that schools can use to determine families perception of family/professional partnerships and communication. - Including Samuel: A Film that Captures the Cultural and Systemic Barriers in Inclusion
(13 & 15). Samuel’s father speaks to future teachers on ways schools can support children’s success in special education and achieve positive results and outcomes.
- Effective Strategies for Parent-Teacher Communication
Special education teacher Meg Randall shares the importance of effective communication along with a few simple strategies that parents of children with learning disabilities and teachers can use to communicate.
Action Tools
- Understood for Learning and Attention Issues - How to Organize Your Child’s IEP Binder
Gives parents ideas for keeping IEP information organized; schools can share information contained on website to collaborate with parents and ensure greater student success in education.
