Model Policy – Student and Family Engagement

Families can be their children’s strongest advocates for promoting quality neighborhood schools and to ensure excellent academic instruction – where children are safe, happy, learning and engaged. Strong student and family engagement leads to better academic performance, better attendance and more students pursuing college and career aspirations.

IDRA’s Student and Family Engagement Model Policy provides a template for policy language for states, school districts, and schools to adopt research-based student and family leadership and engagement strategies.

This package also includes family engagement resources for schools and an advocacy guide to help families and communities advocate for changes in local school board and state-level policies to support strong student and family engagement in schools.

Model Policies

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Additional Resources

IDRA Family Engagement – Online Technical Assistance Toolkit – designed to provide educators tools for embracing what, for many, is a new vision for engaging with families and community members. It includes five chapters, each with a video and supporting resources.

IDRA Education CAFÉ – an innovation for school-family-community collaboration. Education CAFEs are based in a community organization rather than in a single school, and their sole purpose is to collaborate with schools to improve the success of students in the community.

Get more information on family and student engagement, including articles, podcast episodes, resources, and infographics.

Infographics

• 6 Principles for Family Leadership in Education

• Five Strategies for Engaging Marginalized Communities

• IDRA Parent Leadership in Education Model