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In case you missed it: Check out how our work & the work of other Carnegie Corporation of New York-funded education nonprofits is boosting Family Engagement during the pandemic.

Ft. Learning Heroes, TalkingPoints, Common Sense Media, Seek Common Ground, Achieve the Core, & Innovate Public Schools

Kapur & Srinivasan: Pandemic Is Strengthening the Home-School Connection. How Education Nonprofits Are Boosting Family Engagement to Help Kids Succeed Correction appended Oct. 19 As of the first weeks of the school year, parents and teachers at 35,000 schools nationwide have been communicating via text messages translated into 108 languages. The platform they use, created by the education technology nonprofit TalkingPoints, has seen a fifteen-fold...

Our report, commissioned by Carnegie Corporation of New York was featured in this great piece by The 74 about how family engagement during the pandemic is strengthening the home-to-school connection.

Kapur & Srinivasan: Pandemic Is Strengthening the Home-School Connection. How Education Nonprofits Are Boosting Family Engagement to Help Kids Succeed Correction appended Oct. 19 As of the first weeks of the school year, parents and teachers at 35,000 schools nationwide have been communicating via text messages translated into 108 languages. The platform they use, created by the education technology nonprofit TalkingPoints, has seen a fifteen-fold...

"As the education crisis caused by Covid-19 continues, all levels of education should focus more on the number of skills students need to learn rather than the amount of time spent on Zoom. This is especially important in primary school where education is closely tied to developmental milestones, and for pandemic parents who are struggling to find time and energy to help their kids with online education." via The New York Times

How to Tell if Distance Learning Is Working for Your Kid Measuring skills, not test scores, is key.

Important work about the importance and influence of afterschool program providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Afterschool Alliance shares insight and a call to action.

"70 percent of afterschool program providers report serving students in some capacity since the pandemic hit, however, due to the challenging circumstances created by the coronavirus, 84 percent are concerned that they will not be able to provide services in the fall."

afterschoolalliance.org

Important read from The New York Times on the struggles families are facing in decisions for school this year.

“Parents are trying to do the best they can to survive and take care of their own personal situation because we really don’t have a government or leadership right now that’s trying to coordinate this across the nation.”

Why Parents, With ‘No Good Choice’ This School Year, Are Blaming One Another Every choice on what do about schooling amid a pandemic is potentially risky or unfair. Even if the problem is systemic, the angst is personal.

Important for Engaging Families in School Reopening Plans: Reference Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)'s Helpful Roadmap and take note of this first critical practice.

SEL Critical Practice 1: Take time to cultivate and deepen relationships, build partnerships, and plan for SEL

https://casel.org/reopening-with-sel/?utm_source=Smart+Update&utm_campaign=4bdd572564-SMART_UPDATE_2020_7_31&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_17bb008ec3-4bdd572564-321280161

Are you a family engagement coordinator or have been doing family engagement work? We'd love to hear from you about how your work has adapted to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Feel free to comment below or contact us at [email protected].

Syrian Youth Make Masks to Protect Children and Families from COVID-19 At a UNICEF-supported youth center in rural Damascus, young trainees learn job skills and give back to their community.