Organizations and Projects Working with Families

General

  • Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships
    www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000/center.htm

    "The mission of this Center is to conduct and disseminate research, development, and policy analyses that produce new and useful knowledge and practices that help families, educators, and members of communities work together to improve schools, strengthen families, and enhance student learning and development. Current projects include research on the Center’s National Network of Partnership Schools (NNPS) [which] provides inservice education and ongoing professional development for school, district, and state leaders, and teams of educators, parents, and others to improve their programs of family involvement and community connections."

  • National Association of Education for Young Children
    http://www.naeyc.org/families

    NAEYC "understands how important a child's education and development are to parents and families" and so provides resources developed to "support families in their early childhood education and parenting needs."

  • National PTA
    www.pta.org

    "The largest volunteer child advocacy association in the nation, [the] Parent Teacher Association (PTA) reminds our country of its obligations to children and provides parents and families with a powerful voice to speak on behalf of every child while providing the best tools for parents to help their children be successful students."

  • United States Department of Education
    www.ed.gov/

    America Goes Back to School
    www.ed.gov/Family/agbts_old/agbts98/index.html

    Publications

    Articles, brochures and pamphlets are available free of charge. The following are available online, others must be ordered over the phone, or via email.

    Business Coalition for Education Reform - The Formula for Success
    Business Guide to Support Employee and Family Involvement in Education
    Conference Proceedings--A New Understanding of Parent Involvement: Family/Work/School
    Early Childhood: Where Learning Begins - Mathematics
    Family Involvement in Children's Education
    Family Involvement in Education: A National Portrait
    Fathers' Involvement in Their Children's Schools
    Get Involved! How Parents and Families Can Help Their Children Do Better in School
    Helping Your Child Learn Math
    Helping Your Child With Homework (in English and Spanish)
    Involving Parents in HW in the Middle Grades
    Join Together for Kids: How Communities Can Support Family Involvement in Education
    Learning Partners -- Let's Do Homework!
    Learning Partners -- Let's Do Math!
    New Skills for New Schools
    Parent Involvement in Children's Education: Efforts by Public Elementary Schools
    Parents' Reports of School Practices to Involve Families
    Partner's for Learning: Preparing Teachers to Involve Families: Teacher and Administrator Preparation Kit
    AGBTS: Questions Parents Ask About Schools
    Reaching All Families - Creating Family-Friendly Schools
    STRONG FAMILIES, STRONG SCHOOLS
    Summer Home Learning Recipes
    Team Up for Kids! How Schools Can Support Family Involvement in Education
    Transforming Ideas for Teaching and Learning - Mathematics
    You can help your young child learn mathematics

Math-Related

  • "Families Achieving the New Standards" in Math, Science and Technology Education (FANS)
    dimacs.rutgers.edu/fans/

    FANS is a parent outreach project that aims to inform parents about the standards in mathematics, science, and technology adopted by the New Jersey State Board of Education in May 1996, to involve parents in helping their children reach the standards; and to encourage parents to support the local implementation of the standards."

  • Family Math
    lhs.berkeley.edu/equals
    store.yahoo.com/lawrencehallofscience/eqandfammat.html

    A program with the following goal: "to encourage underrepresented groups (especially girls and minority students) to enter careers that use mathematics. A FAMILY MATH course lasts approximately 6 weeks. At every session, children come with their parents to a supportive agency in their community. This might be a school, a church, a community agency, a library, a museum, a boys and girls club, a recreation center. A typical group is approximately 25 people (counting both parents and children). A leader (or team of leaders) teaches the group some very enjoyable games that the families can play at home. Usually, there are about 4 "openers" to play with as families arrive, and then three or four family games, taking a total of about 90 minutes. Families go home, play the games, and come back again to learn some more games and activities. This continues for approximately 6-8 weeks." For more about EQUALS and FAMILY MATH programs, see: lhs.berkeley.edu/equals Also see the Lawrence Hall of Science Store listing for EQUALS and FAMILY MATH

  • Mathematics Education Collaborative
    www.mec-math.org

    The Mathematics Education Collaborative (MEC) is an organization, led by Ruth Parker, that works with schools, districts and math projects throughout the country to help them engage their parents and public in support of mathematics reform efforts. MEC offers a series of nine-day mathematics content courses designed to help teachers, administrators and parents develop a deep understanding of the mathematics that today's students should know, and to learn mathematics within classroom environments that model the kinds of instruction and assessment practices that optimize learning. Parents can attend the summer mathematics courses offered for teachers, funded through scholarships, and large scale community information sessions about mathematics and math reform. This work is part of a five-year effort to develop knowledgeable public advocacy for quality mathematics programs in their schools.

  • At Home with Math
    http://athomewithmath.terc.edu/
    Mixing in Math
    http://mixinginmath.terc.edu/
    Math Packs for Families
    http://investigations.terc.edu/components/resources-1st-ed/math_packs.cfm

    These projects are developing and evaluating activities for parents and elementary school children to use at home. The materials will enable "a broad spectrum of parents to do mathematically rich activities with their elementary-grade children as a regular part of family life by building math into the things they already do with their children."

  • Math and Parent Partnership with Sunnyside (MAPPS)
    http://www.math.arizona.edu/%7Emapps

    "A partnership between educators at the University of Arizona and educators in the Sunnyside Unified School District which seeks to nurture and enhance already existing partnerships between parents and schools in the mathematical learning of our youth."

  • Project PRISM
    www.learner.org/resources/series39.html

    "Project PRISM used a combination of strategies to involve the public, and especially parents, in community-centered discussions of mathematics and science educatingNow concluded, the project produced an outreach kit, entitled Parents as Leaders in Science and Mathematics Education Reform."