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Introduction
Marian Edelman, Children's Defense Fund and Ronald Ferguson, The Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University
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parenting, IQ, heritability, social class, intelligence, environment, family background, intervention, race
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Research on Racial Differences in Learning
Richard Nisbett, University of Michigan
Conference
June 2011 Nisbett argues that IQ is determined in part by genetics and in part by the environment in which a child is reared, citing several twin studies as evidence. He also asserts that the heritability of IQ is dependent on the child' social class, but heritability places no limits on malleability of intelligence. Consequently, the environment is especially crucial since it can be directly affected by programs, teachers, and parents. |
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parenting, television, computers, youth, social media, engagement
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The Power of Play
John Ratey, Harvard Medical School
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June 2011 John Ratey of the Harvard Medical School discusses how exercise, play, and movement are essential ingredients to helping children develop social, behavioral, and cognitive skills. In particular, he highlights the school system in Naperville, Illinois, which has created a rigorous physical education system to improve fitness for all students. |
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parenting, socioeconomic status, stress, health, prefrontal cortex, brain development
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SES and Neural Function in Childhood
Margaret Sheridan, Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital, Boston
Conference
June 2011 In her research Sheridan explores the impact of early life experiences that are a product of socioeconomic status on the prefrontal cortex, which controls behavior, working memory and inhibition. She asks two specific questions in her research: Is there an association between neural function in the prefrontal cortex and socioeconomic status in childhood? Does language exposure mediate those findings if they exist? |
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parenting, cognitive ability, cognitive development, early childhood, literacy, instructional improvement, reading, remediation
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The typical and atypical reading brain
Nadine Gaab, Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital, Boston
Conference
June 2011 Because of links between early brain development and later reading success, Nadine Gaab makes the case for running brain measures on young children, to identify dyslexia, improve remediation methods, inform education policy, and allow children to reach their "intellectual potential." |
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parenting, achievement gap, environment, development, myelination, academic outcomes, neural mechanisms
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Rethinking the Importance of Early Developmental and Academic Skills in Predicting Achievement Gaps and Children’s Outcomes
David Grissmer, University of Virginia
Conference
June 2011 Grissmer seeks to answer three key questions in his presentation through consideration of neuroscience, environment and development: 1. What are the most important early skills for parents, out of school programs and schools to develop in their children that will improve their long term outcomes? 2. What neural mechanisms might explain the link between these early skills and later outcomes? 3. How might these skills be developed in a cost-effective manner? |
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What Parents Should Know from Brain Research Panel Discussion
Lead Questioner: William Dickens, Northeastern University and the Brookings Institution
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June 2011 |
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parenting, poverty, health, attachment relationships, socio-cultural theory, proximal development, contingent responsiveness, reciprocal parenting
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Family Processes that Support School Readiness
Susan Landry, University of Texas, Houston
Conference
June 2011 Landry explains the findings of a descriptive longitudinal study focused on school readiness skills (language, attention, etc), which uses data from the first 8 of 16 consecutive years that children were followed. Landry’s team is particularly interested in the role of the environment in poverty-homes, looking for positive influences in child’s longitudinal outcomes. They evaluate whether the role of the environment is different for children who were born biologically healthy, full-term into poverty homes verses those born at-risk biologically. Can positive, stimulating, nurturing home environment support each equally well? |
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Mechanisms by which Parent Behaviors Mediate Child Outcomes
Ursula Johnson, University of North Texas
Conference
June 2011 Ursula Johnson discusses a home-based play and learning strategy intervention program that teaches parents how to develop a more responsive interactive style with their young children. By learning how to identify and appropriately respond to their child's signals during playtime, parents are able to positively affect their child's language and early literacy skills. |
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parenting, early childhood, cognitive development, numeracy
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The role of parent input in early numeracy
Elizabeth Gunderson, University of Chicago
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June 2011 Elizabeth Gunderson discusses her research on parent involvement in early numeracy, and explains that numerical development begins at home, before a child starts school. Parents can support this development by using "number talk" that involves counting and labeling real objects. |
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parenting,spatial thinking, spatial knowledge, geometry, mathematics, early learning, malleable
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Fostering Young Children’s Spatial Thinking
Susan Levine, University of Chicago
Conference
June 2011 Susan Levine discusses young children’s development of spatial thinking (sometimes referred to as geometry) as an important and often neglected aspect of early mathematics. She explains that the math knowledge that a child enters school with is a predictor of ability as far out as fifth grade and that strong spatial skills is important to a variety of stem disciplines including science, technology, and engineering. She argues that spatial thinking is malleable and that we can all become better in our spatial skills and the ways in which this can impact our lives. She discusses the findings and implications of a study examining parents' and children's knowledge and ability with spatial language. |
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What Parents Should Know about Developing Literacy & Mathematics Skills Panel Discussion
Lead Questioner: Richard Murnane, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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June 2011 |
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parenting, health, nutrition, physical education, parenting, curriculum
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Nutrition for Healthy Child and Youth Development
Steven Gortmaker, Harvard School of Public Health
Conference
June 2011 How do you create healthier environments in all the settings where kids spend time? Gortmaker’s research is focused on improving nutrition and physical activity in whole populations not individuals. He discusses programs developed for preschool, middle school and communities, as well as policy and program interventions that make it easier for parents and children to make choices around food and physical activity. |
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parenting, poverty, heathcare, mental health, stress
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Helping Parents Manage Stress And Promoting Healthy Child Development
William Beardslee, Harvard Medical School
Conference
June 2011 William Beardslee discusses early interventions by developmental phase to promote mental health. He highlights the importance of policies that support parents and communities and the inextricable links between poverty and healthcare injustice. Beardslee also stresses the need to help parents become partners in their child's wellbeing and to minimize their role as simply receivers of information from doctors and healthcare professionals. |
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parenting, disadvantage, engagement, health, implementation, poverty, school quality, early childhood, school readiness
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Empowering Parents: Sustaining the Gains of Early Childhood Education
Portia Kennel, Ounce of Prevention Fund, Chicago
Conference
June 2011 Portia Kennel discusses how Educare early learning centers help low-income parents provide their young children the skills, knowledge, and experiences they need to succeed in school. Educare works to enhance the parent-child relationship, the parent's role in the child's development, and the parent's role in advocating for quality schooling. |
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Positive Care of Infants and Toddlers: A Cornerstone for addressing the Achievement Gap
Carol Leitschuh, University of Minnesota
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June 2011 Carol Leitschuh talks about the importance of movement and children's delight in their early developmental accomplishments. She explains how movement and play are how young babies learn, and shares best practices for how parents and caregivers should intervene to best develop the minds of young children. |
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Helping Parents Manage Stress and Promoting Healthy Child Development Panel Discussion
Lead Questioner: James Quane, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
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June 2011 |
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parenting, adolescence, development, school, environment, adults, relationships, risk-taking, transitions, middle school, peers, supervision, stress, regulation, socialization, social norms
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What Parents Should Know about Adolescent Development: The Influence of Schools on Adolescent Behavior and Risk-Taking
Stephanie Jones, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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June 2011 Stephanie Jones discusses the fundamental developmental tasks of adolescence, the influence of schools on adolescent behavior and risk-taking, and the implications of her research on parenting. She narrows-in on the context of the school environment and the relationships that adolescents build with adults as especially critical factors in adolescence. |
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parenting, parenting strategies, frameworks, race, parent-child relationship measures, parenting styles
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Based on the paper: An Empirically Derived Parenting Typology; Presentation delivered by Ron Ferguson for Jelani Mandara
Ronald Ferguson, The Achievement Gap Initiative
Conference
June 2011 Ron Ferguson presents the work of psychologist, Jelani Mendara, who wanted to find the best “black way” of parenting. He found, despite his predictions, that the same parenting strategies were best practices for black children as for white children, concluding that the traditional conception of authoritative parenting may be optimal for all American ethnic groups, even if it is not culturally normative for some. |
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parenting, youth culture, adolescence, contribution, life skills, leadership, relationships, engagement, school
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Lessons from Youth Development Research
Richard Lerner, Tufts University
Conference
June 2011 Richard Lerner summarizes findings of the 4H Study of Positive Youth Development. Based on the study, he highlights five characteristics that define a thriving young person. When a young person develops high levels of these characteristics, he or she becomes more engaged in school, less prone to problem behaviors, and able to make a positive contribution to the world. |
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parenting, adolescence, school, development, influence, communication, expectation, attainment, homework, practice, advisor
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What Parents Should Know About Adolescent Development: The Role of Schools
Steven Sheldon, Johns Hopkins University
Conference
June 2011 Steven Sheldon discusses the roles of parents and schools for adolescent students. He argues that parents still matter in adolescence, but their role shifts from involvement at school to involvement at home. He also suggests practices for connecting parents and schools through interactive homework and evening advisements. |
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parenting, race, performance expectations, oppositional culture, white hypothesis, peer dynamics, status beliefs, tracking, social capital, hierarchy, classes
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Racial Dynamics in Multiracial High Schools
John Diamond, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Conference
June 2011 John Diamond discusses how race matters in the experiences of high school students and how students internalize and respond to status beliefs and expectations. He suggests mechanisms to affect race dynamics in schools such as rethinking tracking systems and building social capital in students and parents. |
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What Parents Should Know about Adolescent Development Panel Discussion
Lead Questioner: Rick Weissbourd, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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June 2011 |
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parenting, cognitive development, funding, early childhood
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Mobilizing partners, communities and families to build family strengths, promote optimal development and reduce child abuse and neglect
Judy Langford, Center for the Study for Social Policy
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June 2011 Judy Langford talks about efforts to disseminate among states and localities the Strengthening Families framework, which is based on promoting family protective factors to help reduce child maltreatment and improve child outcomes. |
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parenting, engagement, family background, immigrant youth, implementation, minority students, mobility, network, poverty, Hispanic, early childhood
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The Strengthening Families framework
Jamilah R. Jor’dan, Chicago State University
Conference
June 2011 Jamilah Jor'dan discusses implementation of the Strengthening Families framework in Illinois. In line with her challenge to the audience--to deliver information to parents in a language they understand so ideas can become "beneficial" to families--Jor'dan relates such successes as "parent cafes," confabs, and online communities. |
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parenting, engagement, implementation, lack of information, school resources, trust
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New Directions in Family Engagement in Education
M. Elena Lopez, Harvard Family Research Project
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June 2011 M. Elena Lopez discusses new directions for creating family-school relationships, focusing specifically on how to best share student data with families. She outlines three core principles for how data is best shared: 1) access, 2) understanding, 3) action, and uses information from a college and career readiness framework in use by New Visions for Public Schools to show what good data sharing can look like in practice. |
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Parenting Initiatives in the Boston Public School System
Michele Brooks, Parent University, Boston Public Schools
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June 2011 Michele Brooks defines herself as “a practioner who seeks to implement and ‘breathe life’ into research.” She is the Assistant Superintendent for Family and Student Engagement in Boston Public Schools. Here she is providing overview of where Boston Public started and where they are with family engagement. The office does not engage families and does not plan programs, they are about practice and believe that engaging families is the job of every person in the entire system. The role of the office is to build the capacity to engage families in a meaningful and respectful way, to build the capacity of parents as partners. For example: For every instructional strategy there is a family engagement strategy to accompany it, i.e. when teacher teaches phonemic awareness there is a strategy for parents to use at home. Parent University is specifically focused on empowering parents in the role of their children’s education. |
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Organizational Structures for Reaching Parents Panel Discussion
Lead Questioner: Ronald Ferguson, The Achievement Gap Initiative
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June 2011 |
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parenting, early childhood, literacy
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Let’s Talk…It Makes a Difference: An Oral Language Development Campaign that Empowers Parents
Jennifer Baily, Agenda for Children Literacy Initiative, Cambridge
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June 2011 Jennifer Baily shares information on the Let's Talk Campaign, whose goal is to ensure all children and families in Cambridge will be able to read. The key messages that the campaign stresses are that learning begins at birth, and parents need to talk with their children and read with them as much as possible. She outlines several techniques on how to best accomplish these goals, and ends by discussing specific components of the program. |
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Early Words a ReadBoston program
Theresa Lynn, ReadBoston, Boston
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June 2011 Theresa Lynn discusses Read Boston's Early Words program, whose goal is to increase language development in children from birth to four. She outlines the program's three approaches (increasing public awareness of the importances of talking with young children, model practices that encourage verbal exchange, and provide supports to specific populations). Specific strategies for increasing verbal interactions are also briefly discussed. |
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How Children’s Hands Can Help Them Learn Language
Susan Goldin-Meadow, University of Chicago
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June 2011 Susan Goldin-Meadow presents research that the amount children gesture--for example, point to objects, is strongly related to their language development. She encourages parents to gesture as a model to their children, and to directly encourage their children to gesture. |
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parenting, intervention, ELL, bilingual, reading, language, linguistic, Spanish, literarcy, language
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Helping Families Support the Language and Literacy Skills of English Language Learners: Effective Practices and Future Directions
Mariela Paez, Lynch School of Education, Boston College
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June 2011 Mariela Paez describes a research-based intervention to improve oral language development for ELL students. Her program combines the English language classroom with the Spanish language home using mechanisms to support both parents and teachers. |
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Parent Talk Panel Discussion
Lead Questioner: Rick Weissbourd, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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June 2011 |
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parenting, hospital home visitation, poverty,
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Home Visiting & Enabling Effective Parenting
Robert Ammerman, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
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June 2011 Robert Ammerman discusses home visiting programs from the lens of one organization, Every Child Succeeds. These programs help high-risk parents, by promoting and assisting with healthy pregnancies, proper child development, and effective parenting. He discusses field work, new developments, and implications. |
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parenting, community, cultural groups, engagement, immigrant students, immigrant youth, minority students, early childhood
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The Three-to-Third Program
Kara Lysy, Harvard Graduate School of Education (Three-to-Third)
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June 2011 Longtime Boston Public Schools teacher Kara Lysy shares the challenges and possibilities of teacher home-visiting in the Three-to-Third Program. |
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HomeWorks:The Teacher Home Visit Program
Karen Kalish, Teacher Home Visit Program, St. Louis
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June 2011 Karen Kalish discusses a teacher home visit program, which aims at getting parents involved in their child's education and addresses the skills gap plaguing the U.S. economy. The program measures attendance, parental involvement, and test scores, and focuses on getting parents and teachers talking about academics. Kalish gives tips for teachers giving home visits including etiquette and safety. |
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parenting, community, family, engagement, childhood, home-visits, religion, faith, family, worship
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Faith Based Delivery of Social & Child Welfare Services: A Strength-Based Approach
Darrell Armstrong, Institute for Clergy Training (IFCT), Trenton
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June 2011 Darrell Armstrong discusses the role of faith-based organizations in supporting parents. In his own practice, he uses relevant sermons, evidence-based programs, home visits, and baby blessing rituals to partner with parents in the development of their babies. |
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Home Visitation Programs Panel Discussion
Lead Questioner: Julie Boatright Wilson, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
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June 2011 |
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Introducing College Bound
William Jackson, Great Schools, Inc.
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June 2011 Bill Jackson talks about--and shows examples of--the emerging College Bound initiative to promote parent knowledge and skills through practical mini-lessons delivered by digital media. |
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Communication Strategies for Reaching Parents
Rocio Galarza, Sesame Workshop
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June 2011 Rocio Galarza discusses the Sesame Workshop model of parent outreach, explaining how it starts with a needs assessment to figure out what issues researchers and parents think should be highlighted. She then focus on several specific outreach initiatives that Sesame Workshop has developed to help meet the needs of parents, including the Learning is Everywhere initiative and others that empower both children and their families. |
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Documentary Project: America's Promise
Michele Stephenson and Joseph Brewster, Rada Film Group
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June 2011 What does it take to overcome the racial achievement gap? Michele Stephenson and Joseph Brewster discuss this question in their documentary film, Achievement Gap. This film follows two African American boys in Brooklyn and looks at what it takes to overcome the racial achievement gap in education. The filmmakers also discuss the powerful role of documentary film in social movements. |
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Communication Strategies for Reaching Parents Panel Discussion
Lead Questioner: Joe Blatt, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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Framing Public Discourse on Parenting
Tiffany Manuel, Frameworks Institute
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June 2011 Tiffany Manuel discusses framing parental practice for public engagement and social change. She highlights key challenges to framing parental practice, including the fact that discourse related to education is often times myopic, looking only at extremes. Manuel also believes a key to framing is to draw back the lens and enable people to understand the full context of parental practice; this context includes not just the parents but also the housing situation, healthcare, and community resources available. |
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Synthesis and Remarks
Heather Weiss, Harvard Family Research Project
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June 2011 Heather Weiss discusses the importance of parent, family, and community engagement to enhance learning and strategies to achieve systemic change. She reframes the definition of PFCE to include shared responsibility, continuity, and context. |
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