10 Evidence Based Family Engagement Programs 

When schools engage parents and guardians as authentic partners, students do significantly better in school. Learn about ten evidence based cradle to college programs for schools and community organizations that give staff, parents, and students new learning opportunities to increase their knowledge and skills to support student success.  Read With Me engages families in early reading activities by providing a weekly supply of award-winning children’s books into the home, through a rotating library. The program is complemented with lessons for family literacy […]

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Read With Me: Let the children play, learn to read, and grow

(Ventura, CA) – Nestled in a picturesque community just north of Emma Wood State Beach, and adjacent to the Ventura River, Families in Schools (FIS) visited the Family Center in room 30 at Sheridan Way Elementary School in Ventura, CA. It was a joy at first sight to see the classroom inside filled with smiling and playful parents and their children under the age of four interacting, learning, playing as part of FIS’s Read with […]

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Transition to College Coming to 1st Generation Students and their Families!

Families In Schools (FIS) is thrilled to announce that due to the generous support of The Kresge Foundation FIS will be developing and implementing Transition to College a parent curriculum that will help address the transition of low-income and immigrant students from high school to college. The need for a Transition to College program is supported by statistics demonstrating low college persistence rates among low-income, first-generation college goers. In 2011, the Pell Institute reported that […]

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