this image comes from Families in BC History, part of a wonderful site combining digital images, guided information and links to support material, inviting readers to learn more about history in British Columbia, and, by extension, within their own communities.
Research Digest: Parents Write Their Worlds: A Parent Involvement Program Bridging Urban Schools and Families - Janise Hurtig describes a participatory research project that examines a school-based writing workshop in which parents write stories, some of which are published in a literary magazine that is circulated within schools and community. Part of the larger Family Involvement Network of Educators site.
Adult
and Family Literacy Research: Current Status and Future Directions
- summary of remarks from a panel assessing "the current state of
knowledge
about effective approaches to improving the literacy skills of
low-literate
adults and about the role of family literacy services in providing
parents
with the knowledge and skills they need to support their children's
literacy
development as well as their own." Not unproblematic; an example
of one strand of discourse about intergenerational literacy and its
adherents.
Adult Literacy Education wiki on Family Literacy - jointly compiled resources relevant to intergenerational literacy learning
Annotated Bibliography of over 170 research articles and writings on family literacy at The Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy at Penn State web site.
Assessment and Evaluation Strategies in Family Literacy Program Development - Adele Thomas and Bram Fisher, National Literacy Secretariat of Canada and the Ontario Training and Adjustment Board
Black Family Network - website of the Career Communications Group, Inc; founded over 20 years ago with a mission to promote significant minority achievement in engineering, science and technology. As a minority-owned media services company, we recognize the mandate to promote excellence to our youth by telling the stories of the thousands of unheralded people striving for success.
The British Columbia Framework of Statements and Standards of Best Practices in Family Literacy
Building the Fire: Report on Aboriginal Family Literacy by Katherine.Gullion, 1996
Building Strong and Effective Community Partnerships - A Manual for Family Literacy Workers - the Family Literacy Action Group of Alberta, by Sharon Skage, 1996.
Building Strong Families: An Asset-Based Approach - from the Search Institute: A poll of 1,005 parents investigating how much support and success they experience in raising healthy, responsible, and caring children and teenagers. This poll is the first step in a long-term partnership focused on identifying and bolstering the strengths of parents and families based on Search Institute’s framework of developmental assets. Many elements of the report are available in Spanish.
Canadian Association of Family Resource Programs - Bilingual site detailing work of Family Resource Programs across Canada, including Weaving Literacies, perspectives on intergenerational learning and its connections to lives in communities.
Celebrating Families 2004 - online calendar of dates, activities and resources that ... celebrate culture, tradition and diversity, as well as advocate active community involvement.
Child and Family Canada - Bilingual (French and English) public education website. Fifty Canadian non-profit organizations have come together under the banner of Child & Family Canada to provide quality, credible resources on children and families on an easy-to-navigate website. The managing partner of the consortium is the Canadian Child Care Federation.
"Coming,
ready or not!": What Counts as Early Literacy? Barbara
Comber,
©1999 - describes "the importance of paying attention to the
knowledge,
attitudes, and interests that are part of young children's lives when
they
come to school. She discusses how attending to the world of the
children
in such a way
opens up possibilities for exploring literacy through everyday texts
and problems and through popular culture." from Language
and Literacy, a Canadian Educational E-Journal.
The Compact for Reading Guide (February 1999) "walks your family-school compact team through the steps of building & implementing a Compact for Reading. It provides information, strategies, examples, & checklists to help parents, educators, & community members develop effective, workable compacts that can improve your school, increase family involvement, & increase student skills & achievement in reading." This information may also serve as the basis for critical conversations around roles of families, communities and educators in supporting children's learning.
A Decade of Family Literacy: Programs, Outcomes, and the Future Information Series No. 389 by Nancy Padak, Connie Sapin, and Dianna Baycich
Designer Literacy: Reading the Labels by Elsa Auerbach, from Bright Ideas, in Literacy Harvest
Diverse Families: A Dialogue about Reflective Practice - " This collection of essays focuses on applications of the Reflective Human Action theory (Andrews, Mitstifer, Rehm, & Vaughn, 1995) in the arena of family diversity.... eflective Human Action features the principles of accepting chaos, sharing information, developing relationships, and embracing vision--all supported by authenticity, ethical sensibility, and spirituality. But most importantly, this theory encourages reflective engagement--searching for meaning and thinking about what you are doing while you are doing it."
earlyreading.info - site designed to help classroom teachers and grant writers find resources for prekindergarten through 3rd grade in five reading components (consistent with the Reading First initiative)
ERIC READING, ENGLISH, AND COMMUNICATION FAMILY INFO CENTER - resources from the ERIC clearinghouse.
Even Start Statewide Family Literacy Initiative - resource tool for grantees; includes information pertinent to the work of the Initiatives and other State efforts to improve and expand quality family literacy programs. Information currently available includes performance indicator development and examples, a grantee contact list, and links to initiative-sponsored web sites. [see also, National Evenstart Association ]
Evaulation - Pennsylvania Family Literacy Evaluation report, November 2000: http://www.ed.psu.edu/isal/pdf/pafamlit_booklet.pdf
Family and Community Literacy in the Community Academic Service Program - Heather J Richmond, St Thomas University
The Family Center at E-Square - parent and children together (PACT) activities and resources for parents
Family Education.com - links to information for parents, schools online, current events (and commercial pop up ads from for-profit entities)
Family Literacy: A Strategy for Educational Improvement - This Issue Brief describes family literacy and innovative state approaches to family literacy. from the National Governors' Association.'s Center for Best Practices
Family Literacy annotated bibliography of resources, Compiled by Terrie Moar Family Literacy Coordinator for Literacy Partners of Manitoba 1997/98
Family Literacy : An Annotated Bibilgraphy from the US Department of Education
Family Literacy and Child Care - guide for child care workers from READ, Saskatoon, Canada
Family
Literacy
and Adult English Language Learners - fact sheet from the
National
Center for ESL Literacy Education (NCLE)
Family Literacy online discussion list - at the National Institute for Literacy. Subsribe and/or browse discussion archives.
Family and Intergenerational Literacy - ERIC Digest No. 111. Sandra Kerka, 1991. Information from early work in intergenerational literacy
Family
and
Intergenerational Literacy in Multilingual Communities - ERIC Q
andA, (NCLE) Gail Weinstein, revised June, 1998
FRONTIER COLLEGE WORKING WITH CHILDREN - Frontier College in Canada works with community-based groups and organizations to set up Reading Circles and volunteer tutoring programs for children. By helping children to get hooked on books today, we are working to prevent illiteracy for the future.
Garden cultivates new roots - International Institute's family literacy garden
Gathering Voices: Building an Alliance for Family Literacy - Proceedings of the conference "Gathering Voices: Building an Alliance for Family Literacy" held October 26 - 28, 2000, in St. John's, Newfoundland.
Headstart information and Publication Center, including Family Literacy Tool Kit
The General Accounting Office (GAO) released the following
report on
March 29th: Head Start and Even Start: Greater Collaboration
Needed
on Measures of Adult Education and Literacy. GAO-02-348,
March
29. http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-02-348
Senior Child-Care Givers Express Frustrations, Joy in Journal - Chicago senior citizens at the University of Illinois Extension program for support; many have shared their feelings in their own publication. The magazine is an outgrowth of a group, Willing and Interested Seniors/Supporters of Education (WISE), itself part of a larger Extension effort to assist reform of the city's public schools.
Why, How, and When Should My Child Learn a Second Language? - Parent Brochure from the ERIC Clearinghouse on Languages and Linguistics
Motheread - multidimensional national literacy organization, began in 1987 as an intergenerational approach to developing literacy skills.
National Center for Family Literacy .
media analysis: the AdCouncil and family literacy; see also NIFL family list (check August 28, 2003) for more.
The National Institute for Literacy State Policy Update, Strengthening Family Literacy: How States Can Increase Funding and Improve Quality
A report highlighting three states' initiatives and analyzing how literacy leaders in each state worked to improve the quality of family literacy services. To order a print version, call the NIFL publications hotline toll free at 1-877-433-7827. For information about the content of the State Policy Update, please telephone Mary Parke at 202-632-1500 ext. 39, or send email to policy-asst@nifl.gov.
Parent and family resources on the web - [scroll down to children, youth and family literacy ]
Parent Involvement - Spanish language resources - school, health and related issues, from the national PTA
Literacy Assistance Center's Literacy Harvest, and Family Literacy Forum : Perspectives on Family Literacy - a joint publication, fall 2003.
A Practical Guide to Family Literacy - from The Family Literacy Action Group of Alberta; intended as a resource book, and organized according to the process involved in developing an understanding of family literacy and initiating or building a program.
Practical research benefiting children and youth - from the Search Institute, which believes that "blending research and practice is the best way to find out what kids really need, learn how to best meet those needs, and get that information into the hands of the people who can make a difference." Includes resources for families.
Lesson plans to analyze world events, wars, conflit, discrimination, and crises from Educators for Social Responsibility.
Heroes of Ground Zero - accounts of September 11, 2001, reported by firefighters, as well as information about rescue work, accompanied by classroom resources.
Dealing with tragedy - one year later
The New
Normal -
teens dicuss their reactions
Children and Responding to National Disaster Information for Children (for educators) http://www.nasponline.org/NEAT/terror_eds.html
Choices education project - attack on the United States; part of the larger Choices site, providing frameworks and background information for informed thinking.
Helping Children Cope with Tuesday's Act of Terrorism http://www.nasponline.org/NEAT/terrorism.html
Helping Children Deal with Trauma www.brown.edu/Departments/IESE/resources/trauma.html
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