Research shows parent, family, and community involvement in education correlates with higher academic performance and school improvement. That’s why NEA affiliate members and leaders are working closely with parents, families, and community members in local communities across the country to close achievement gaps, improve low-performing schools, and transform relationships between schools and their communities. Read the stories below to learn more about how families and communities are involved in priority schools.
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Schools Awarded Funding for Classroom Projects
December 20, 2012 by
Meaningful partnerships are needed more than ever. That’s why, the NEA Foundation and DonorsChoose.org teamed up to award several Priority Schools with hundreds of dollars in grant funding.
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Indiana School Becomes the Heart of a Community
September 7, 2012 by
Educators at Glenwood Leadership Academy are demonstrating how collaborative efforts among groups with a vested interest in education can support the whole student and lift a community from despair.
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Parent Partnership Solutions
July 25, 2012 by
This article outlines six of the most common communication challenges between educators and parents, as reported by a recent Parenting/NEA survey, along with NEA member-tested solutions.
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PSC helps Augusta High Schools End Year on “Edu-taining” Note
June 29, 2012 by
NEA’s Priority Schools Campaign (PSC) kicked-off a long-term, multi-faceted family and community engagement effort in Augusta, Georgia with uplifting assemblies at three priority high schools.
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Home Visits Yield Hope and Cooperation
May 31, 2012 by
Teachers, support staff, and parents team up as co-educators to build trust and benefit students in Oregon’s Salem-Keizer school district through following a model for home meetings called the Parent Teacher Home Visit Project.
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Priority School Educators are “Bringing Learning to Life”
May 10, 2012 by
A focus on student-centered, project-based learning is starting to pay off in Columbus, Ohio, thanks in part to a service-learning initiative lead by NEA, CEA in collaboration with OSU.
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Changing Parent-Teacher Dynamic Through Home Visits
March 26, 2012 by
The NEA Foundation has been supporting teacher home visit projects as a strategy for increasing student achievement in low-performing schools. In an op-ed for Huff Post, Harriet Sanford writes about the impact home visits can have.
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Family-School-Community Engagement: A Path in the Forest
March 7, 2012 by
What happens when a group of educators, parents and community members go into the woods? They come out with new ways to help sustain school change for student success.
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Parents Part of the Production in a High School Theater Program
March 5, 2012 by
Tom Hall’s theater arts program at Howenstine High Magnet School demonstrates both the importance of arts education and a unique way to get parents and the community involved with the school.
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Gina Jacobs – Extraordinary Volunteer
March 2, 2012 by
NEA joins family and friends in mourning the tragic death of Gina Jacobs, “volunteer extraordinaire” and a passionate advocate for the students of Oak Hill Elementary School. Jacobs always went above and beyond to help meet student needs for success.
