Strategy Finder

This interactive database features more than 60 strategies from around the world that bring the strategy landscape to life. These family-school engagement strategies are all oriented around improving and transforming education systems to achieve four main goals, and you can also filter the strategies through other characteristics such as geography, student age, tech level, and levers for change. To learn more about the goals and filters, click on the ⓘ icon.

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Four important goals

Each of the four goals we have identified are important. The context will determine which goal should be prioritized for family and school collaborations. Strategies may, and often do, work towards multiple goals.

Improve:

Strategies that work within the existing sets of purposes and values that guide education systems and seek to improve what students get out of that existing system.

  • Improve student attendance and completion: Strategies that include as an important outcome the improvement of student participation in school such as increasing student enrollment, attendance, and completion of school.

  • Improve student learning and development: Strategies that include as an important outcome the improvement of student learning and development on such measures as academic skills and socio-emotional competencies.

Transform:

Strategies that work to redefine the purpose and values that guide education systems.

  • Redefine the purpose of education for students: Strategies that include as an important outcome a shared family-school vision that adapts, re-orients, or changes the focus of education systems in relation to student experiences and outcomes.

  • Redefine the purpose of education for society: Parent engagement strategies that include as an important outcome a shared family-school vision that adapts, re-orients, or changes the focus of education systems in relation to the school’s role in the community.

Dimensions of the landscape map

Country:

In what part of the world is the strategy being implemented?

  • This dimension involved assessing the geographic location in which the strategy takes place.

Student Age:

What age group of students does the strategy support?

  • We looked at strategies that supported students in early childhood, primary, and lower and upper secondary school.

Tech Level:

What level of technology does the strategy require?

  • No tech: No technology at all is required, such as with holding in-person parent meetings or sending hardcopy materials to the home.

  • Low tech: Only simple devices such as radios or SMS-enabled phones are required.

  • High tech: Fast internet connection and digital devices such as tablets or computers are required. The strategy may involve streaming video conferences or providing community resource rooms with computers.

Levers to change:

What levers for change is the strategy using?

  • Providing information: Sharing knowledge and data.

  • Building relationships: Building trust and connections between people.

  • Shifting mindsets: Changing beliefs and attitudes.

  • Building skills: Developing competencies and skills.

  • Providing resources: Providing resources and assistance in the form of materials, food, cash, labor, etc.

  • Designing: Identifying problems and co-creating solutions.


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