Dual Capacity Building and Student Achievement Karen L. Mapp, EdD Harvard Graduate School of Education

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Dual Capacity Building and Student
AchievementKaren L. Mapp, EdDHarvard Graduate
School of Education
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New Developments in the Field of Family and
Community Engagement

• Increased focus on family engagement from
  philanthropy Kellogg, Annie E. Casey, and the
  Packard Foundation
• Formation of the National Partnership for Family,
  School and Community Engagement, with support
  from the Heising-Simons Foundation
• Third USDOE I3 competition
• Education Nation to include feature panel on
  family engagement
• NYC Fund for Public Advocacy Forum on Family
  Engagement, Oct 2013, with support from
  Scholastic FACE
• Changes in state policy inclusion of family
  engagement in assessment and evaluation rubrics
  (For example, MA and NY)
• Over 125 members of the IEL based Family
  Engagement District Leaders Group
• More district systemic initiatives
• Introduction of the Family Engagement in
  Education Act in August, 2013

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Why the increase in focus on family and community
engagement?
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Perhaps the education sector is finally paying
attention to the solid research base shows that
how families are engaged in their childrens
learning and development matters...
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Family engagement matters
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Family engagement matters
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for student literacy

• PISA study on Family Engagement (2010)
• Fifteen-year old students whose parents often
  read books with them during their first year of
  primary school show markedly higher PISA scores
  than students whose parents read infrequently
  with them or not at all (The average difference
  is 25 score points, which equates to over half a
  school year).
• The performance advantage among students whose
  parents read to them early in their school years
  is evident regardless of familys socioeconomic
  status.
• Students are never too old to benefit from their
  parents interest in them Family engagement with
  their 15-year olds (talking about current events,
  about school, etc.) is strongly associated with
  better PISA performance.

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Family engagement matters
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for student literacy

• National Center for Family Literacy Study
• A meta-analysis of 14 experimental/quasi
  experimental studies to determine the causal role
  of parent actions in childrens literacy
  development from kindergarten to third grade
  found that how parents are engaged in their
  childrens reading acquisition does matter.

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Family engagement matters
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for social emotional development

• Study by Gonzales-Pienda, et al, found that the
  more parental involvementThe more positive was
  childrens academic self-conceptThe higher was
  childrens tendency to internalize or accept
  responsibility for the results of their academic
  behavior. The better were childrens academic
  aptitudes (verbal, reasoning, and calculus
  their speed and precision in performing
  operations with numbers and quantitative
  concepts).

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Family engagement matters
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for school improvement
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FIVE ESSENTIAL SUPPORTS

• The University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago
  School Research

CLASSROOM
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3. PARENT-COMMUNITY TIES
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Why has it been so difficult to cultivate and
sustain effective home/school partnerships?effect
ive partnerships?
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Limited focus on building the capacity for
stakeholders to partner in ways that support
student achievement and school improvement
Effective Home/School Partnerships Supporting
Student Achievement School Improvement
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Dual Capacity Building Framework for
Family-School Partnerships
Family and Staff Capacity Outcomes