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KnowledgeBases > The Writing Successful Grants KnowledgeBase > Element 1 > Activity 2 > Task 4: Family and Community Involvement

Guideline:

Utilizing the completed family and community involvement assessment the grant seeker can assess the relevant areas of need. This analysis can be included in the organization's need assessment as well as aiding in program design aimed at meeting those needs.

Checklists Strenghtening Partnerships: Community School Assessment Checklist _EXTERNAL_LINK

This Coalition for Community Schools document contains three checklists designed to help schools assess partnership activities within their community.

Tools Community Vision - Key Questions

This list of seven questions to pose to community constituents is designed to help schools identify a vision of what the community wants and expects from its schools. The questions were developed by the 2003 Baldrige National Quality Award in Education recipient, Community Consolidated School District 15 in Palatine, Illinois.

References Awareness of Cultural Differences in Parental Involvement

This document summarizes findings from Model Strategies in Bilingual Education: Family Literacy & Parent Involvement, a research report from the U.S. Department of Education. The findings in this document highlight how cultural differences have a positive and negative influence on parental involvement in children's schooling.

References Four Types of Parents

This document describes the spectrum of parent involvement found in the four basic types of parents.

References Parental Involvement - What Does It Really Mean?

Lack of parent participation is a prevalent problem among America's schools today. "Parental Involvement - What Does It Really Mean?" discusses many of the facts of parent involvement and how it affects today's schools. It offers a model to analyze the extent of parental involvement present within a school.

References Six Types of School-Family-Community Involvement _EXTERNAL_LINK

This National Network of Partnership Schools webpage discusses six types of cooperation among families, schools, and other community organizations as identified by Johns Hopkins University Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships Director Joyce Epstein.

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