Discusses the importance of positive youth development, community building, and youth involvement. Provides information about how you can put positive youth development principles into practice.
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Summarizes a survey of American middle and high school students who were missing school and asked them why they skip and what they perceive the consequences to be.
Provides a range of information on mental health including a section focused on positive mental health and how to promote resiliencefor adolescents.
Provides educators with an overview of social and emotional learning (SEL) and school-family partnerships (SFPs), a discussion of the important relationship of SFPs and SEL, and strategies to promote children's social, emotional, and academic development using school-family partnerships.
Promotes better policy and practice around school attendance, including tracking chronic absence data for each student beginning in kindergarten, or ideally earlier, and partnering with families and community agencies to intervene when poor attendance is a problem for students or schools.
Provides highlights from the Preventing Drug Use among Children and Adolescents: A Research-Based Guide for Parents, Educators, and Community Leaders, Second Edition booklet.
Compiles and summarizes the research regarding the impact of parent engagement on student academic achievement and provides parents with a practical tool that informs them about the school system, and includes strategies and resources necessary for children’s cognitive, academic, social and emoti...
Examines the roles of school districts and teachers in promoting family engagement and provides several case studies of effective approaches culminating in a set of policy recommendations.
Provides educators with an overview of social and emotional learning (SEL) and school-family partnerships (SFPs), a discussion of the important relationship of SFPs and SEL, and strategies to promote children's social, emotional, and academic development using school-family partnerships.
Describes much of the empirical basis linking parental involvement with improved educational outcomes, but also offers practical guidance about an array of strategies for increasing such involvement at multiple levels, and describes a nationally recognized framework to guide parental involvement...
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