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"The question that I seem to hear from teachers comes up when we discuss engagement vs on task behavior. Teachers want to know how can you see engagement. Paula Bevan tells us that engagement = brain sweat, but can we see a kiddo's brain sweating. What evidence can administrators and teachers collect that will show true engagement and not on task behavior?"

"Powerful instruction - powerful engagement What would happen if, rather than focusing on teaching reading strategies, we focused instead on getting students engaged? I can tell you what happened in four eighth-grade classrooms."

This Brief highlights federal policies for family engagement; describes examples of policy actions by the state of Massachusetts; and illustrates local policies and practices at the Dr. William W. Henderson Inclusion Elementary School in Dorchester, MA, a SWIFT knowledge development site. To guide SWIFT Center technical assistance on the Family and Community Engagement Domain in participating states and districts, we suggest four ways to weave family engagement policies and practices into the SWIFT framework.

"We define family engagement as the collaboration between families and schools that drives student achievement. A strong body of research shows that students do better in school and in life when their parents are engaged in their education.  Teachers are only with children an average 14% of their time, so it is essential that families reinforce messages about learning outside of school."

"U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced today the upcoming release of the national frameworks for family engagement in which Senior Lecturer Karen Mapp, Ed.M.'93, Ed.D.'99, played an instrumental role developing. In a brief video (see below) played today at the National Family Engagement Conference in Cincinnati, Ohio, Duncan thanked Mapp and emphasized the importance of such frameworks."

"ACT developed ACT Engage to measure students' behaviors and psychosocial attributes, which are critical but often overlooked components of their success as they enter college. Backed by our enduring expertise in research, ACT Engage can predict-with a remarkable degree of accuracy-how likely each of your incoming freshmen is to return for a second year, and whether they will earn at least a 2.0 GPA."

A Boston Public School, serving children K1 - Grade 5, and their families. Haley Pilot School Core Values~       Engagement: For every student to be motivated to learn through memorable experiences and connections to community.       Community:  For every student and their family to be understood, respected and engaged.      Equity:  For our instruction to be inclusive yet different based on students' individual strengths and needs.

"GoClass is a cloud enabled teaching application for tablet devices that redefines the boundaries of computing in the classroom. Connect with your students like never before, customize and fine-tune your lesson plans on the fly, engage students in new ways and continuously evaluate their understanding while you are in class. By enriching existing methodologies - rather than replacing them - GoClass empowers you to build on your teaching experience while engaging students in a 21st century learning environment."

Willms article STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AT SCHOOL A SENSE OF BELONGING AND PARTICIPATION Results from PISA 2000

"These indicators may serve as a needs assessment, a set of strategic goals and outcomes, a framework for decision making, or the definition of what a whole child approach to education truly requires. In fact, these indicators are among those we consider in the selection process for Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award. However you choose to use them, please share them widely among your stakeholders and involve many voices in soliciting evidence related to their implementation. Although these are largely school-based, a whole child approach to education requires the engagement of the entire community to ensure that each child is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged."

"The Courageous Conversations protocol is one of the most impactful dialogues an educational system can engage in. Sankofa means embrace the past, but stay focused on the future. A Courageous Conversation About Race has four steps: notice, engage, understand, and empathize."

"FAMILY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT Scholastic FACE brings together research-based programs and strategies that empower families, communities and students in support of teaching and learning."

""If you give effective feedback to students you double the rate of learning," Almarode said. "So here's my argument: cut back on the volume of assignments and increase your feedback on those you grade and you will double the rate of learning.""

Socrative is a smart student response system that empowers teachers to engage their classrooms through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.

"This blog is written by Melissa Cropper, President of the Ohio Federation of Teachers (OFT), to engage OFT members and others in advancing the mission, vision, and purpose of the Ohio Federation of Teachers"

"Share your powerpoint presentations, eLearning content, business presentations and tutorials as engaging talking videos, by using high-quality and multilingual text-to-speech technology, with no need for expensive and time-consuming voice recordings. How? Just import your presentation and type a comment for each slide. You immediately get a high-quality talking video, ready to be shared."

"This is a video of an Academic Parent Teacher Team (APTT) meeting at Stanton Elementary school in Southeast Washington, D.C.. APTT is a family engagement strategy that aims to provide parents the information they need to be effective partners in supporting their childrens' education. The APTT model was developed in the Creighton school district in Phoenix, Arizona by Maria Paredes."

"Creighton Elementary School District (CSD) is located in central Phoenix with approximately 6,700 students, of whom 85% are Hispanic and 90% qualify for free and reduced-price lunch. In 2009, Dr. Maria C. Paredes (mparede@wested.org), then CSD's Director of Community Education, created an innovative new family engagement framework for teacher and parent collaboration focused on the improvement of student achievement: Academic Parent-Teacher Teams (APTT©)."

"APTT is a family Engagement in education model developed by Maria C. Paredes, It is designed to increase the quality and quantity of parent-teacher communication and interaction focused on student learning and achievement. This video is part two of three team meetings between teacher and parents in a first grade classroom."