Reframing Family Engagement
Program Policies, Procedures, and Management Resources
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A 1-page assessment to help organizations evaluate and enhance their approach to partnering with families.
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A 1-page assessment to help organizations evaluate and enhance their approach to partnering with families.
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View GuideDescription of Resource: This 1-page assessment tool, 6 Shifts: Where Is Your School or Organization?, is designed to help organizations evaluate and enhance their approach to working with families. Drawing from work with researchers and practitioners, 6 Shifts identifies key domains reflecting an organization’s default mindsets and reframes these strategies to facilitate more meaningful engagement with families using a strengths-based approach. Using a 5-point scale, organizations will rate their current approaches to family engagement and identify starting points to strengthen these essential partnerships.
Goals: To help organizations reflect on how they work with families and identify opportunities to build more relationship-centered partnerships.
Target Population/Eligibility or Target Sites: Mentoring programs of all types working with families and communities.
Corresponding Elements of Effective Practice:
- Recruitment
- Screening and Enrollment (formerly “Screening”)
- Training
- Forming Mentoring Relationships (formerly “Matching and Initiating”)
- Supporting Mentoring Relationships (formerly “Monitoring and Support”)
- Relationship Celebration and Program Exit (formerly “Closure”)
- Program Planning and Management
Key Personnel: Program directors and staff
Additional Information: For more information on family engagement, see Family Matters: Family Engagement as a Strategy in Strengthening Mentoring Relationships webinar.
Publisher/Source: Search Institute
Author: Search Institute
Date of Publication: None
Resource Type: Program Policies, Procedures, and Management Resources
Evaluation Methodology: Resource has not been evaluated for effectiveness
Evaluation Outcomes: Resource has not been evaluated for effectiveness
External Validity: Resource has not been evaluated for effectiveness
The tool is available at no cost on the Search Institute website: https://searchinstitute.org/resources-hub/reframing-family-engagement.
Evidence Base: None.
Additional References: None.
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Overview Description of Resource: This 1-page assessment tool, 6 Shifts: Where Is Your School or Organization?, is designed to help organizations evaluate and enhance their approach to working with families. Drawing from work with researchers and practitioners, 6 Shifts identifies key domains reflecting an organization’s default mindsets and reframes these strategies to facilitate more meaningful engagement with families using a strengths-based approach. Using a 5-point scale, organizations will rate their current approaches to family engagement and identify starting points to strengthen these essential partnerships.
Goals: To help organizations reflect on how they work with families and identify opportunities to build more relationship-centered partnerships.
Target Population/Eligibility or Target Sites: Mentoring programs of all types working with families and communities.
Corresponding Elements of Effective Practice:
- Recruitment
- Screening and Enrollment (formerly “Screening”)
- Training
- Forming Mentoring Relationships (formerly “Matching and Initiating”)
- Supporting Mentoring Relationships (formerly “Monitoring and Support”)
- Relationship Celebration and Program Exit (formerly “Closure”)
- Program Planning and Management
Key Personnel: Program directors and staff
Additional Information: For more information on family engagement, see Family Matters: Family Engagement as a Strategy in Strengthening Mentoring Relationships webinar.
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Profile Publisher/Source: Search Institute
Author: Search Institute
Date of Publication: None
Resource Type: Program Policies, Procedures, and Management Resources
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Evaluation and Evidence Evaluation Methodology: Resource has not been evaluated for effectiveness
Evaluation Outcomes: Resource has not been evaluated for effectiveness
External Validity: Resource has not been evaluated for effectiveness
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Access and Usage The tool is available at no cost on the Search Institute website: https://searchinstitute.org/resources-hub/reframing-family-engagement.
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References Evidence Base: None.
Additional References: None.