Member Insights
Share Your Insights
This area of the FINE website offers a space for member opinions and provocative ideas. We welcome your contributions.
Please email FINE with your opinions at fine@gse.harvard.edu. Along with your insight, please include your name, position, organization, city, state, and website.
Choose a question to find out what FINE members think:
- Why and how do you link family engagement practices to learning?
- How can grandparents be involved in their grandchildren's learning?
- How can early childhood settings encourage parents to advocate for their child?
- What have you learned from evaluating school-family-community partnership programs?
- How can parents be engaged in students' transition from middle to high school?
- What do you think of having teachers “grade” parents on their support of their children's learning?
- Are schools doing enough to learn about families?
- How can we prepare teachers to work with culturally diverse students and their families? What skills should educators develop to do this successfully?
- A Public Agenda survey (People's Chief Concerns, 1999) claims that 55% of the public consider lack of parent involvement a “major problem” facing public schools. What is your opinion and how does your work address this issue?
- Does the workplace hinder family involvement in children's education?
- Does family involvement in high school matter?
- Is teacher preparation key to improving teacher practices with families? What are the alternatives?