Examines the role of school districts in promoting family engagement. The brief spotlights six school districts' strategies and proposes policy recommendations to support their important work.

The brief uses six case studies from across the country to reveal innovative efforts by early childhood programs and school districts to use student data systems to improve family engagement. The brief also includes a set of policy recommendations to help support the current trends in education that focus on twenty-first century learning and the vital role of technology.

Harvard Family Research Project and the National PTA® have teamed up to bring you the third brief in our ground-breaking series about family engagement policy, highlighting the need for teacher education programs to prepare teachers to better work with families.