Funded by the William T. Grant Foundation, this 4-year mixed-method study focused on a community-based civic leadership program for parents/caregivers and their children, ages 3-12: the Children’s Leadership Training Institute (CLTI) and the Parent Leadership Training Institute (PLTI).

Learn how the Children’s Leadership Training Institute (CLTI) empowers children 3-12 to form their civic identities, use their voices, become civic leaders, and participate in intergenerational civics lessons.

Families who participate in the Parent Leadership Training Institute and the Children’s Leadership Training Institute are further equipped to have difficult conversations about politics and what is happening in their communities.

The Postsecondary Research Collaborative (PRC) is an initiative focused on understanding and addressing the college and career opportunities, experiences, and outcomes of diverse student populations

For nearly two years, Community Organizing and Family Issues and Power-PAC IL parent leaders participated in the Parent Power and Leadership Project (PPLP), an effort to share how social justice organizations support the learning and growth of parents, youth, and communities. Their stories show how COFI Way Leadership Development doesn’t just help to transform parents, but it also helps to inspire and activate youth, families, and communities.

Funded by the Spencer Foundation and led by Drs. Joanna Geller, Jennifer Cossyleon, and Fabienne Doucet, we explore how children learn and thrive when their family members belong to parent leadership and organizing groups that are striving toward social, racial, and economic justice.

This case study showcases how Fayette County Public Schools in Kentucky transformed its approach to family engagement through a powerful professional development series led by the National Center for Families Learning (NCFL).

Families First’s Ripple Program offers an evidence-informed framework for both parents wishing to strengthen leadership skills and youth- and family- serving agencies who have attempted to engage families but are not seeing compelling results. Families First contracted with the Center for Policy, Research, and Evaluation (PRE) at NYU Metro Center for an evaluation of the long-term impact of the Ripple Program on families, agencies, and communities.

The goal of the Kentucky Collaborative Research Study is to understand how family-school partnerships change in schools over a 3-year time period.

PRE's Education Conversation Series brings together parent leaders, community members, researchers, and other indispensable stakeholders engaged in educational justice work to discuss ways to create culturally responsive and sustaining learning environments for all students and their families.

PRE's 'Summer Snapshots' are a multi-part research brief series born out of ongoing research on the District Summer Learning Network (DSLN). This research, funded by the Wallace Foundation, explores how school districts across the U.S. plan and implement high-quality, evidence-based summer learning programs for students.

In January 2021 four organizations that develop parents as leaders, in partnership with the NYU Metro Center and funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, committed to advancing parent-led racial equity projects in New Mexico, Mississippi, New York, and Washington. This racial equity peer learning and inquiry community is part of a broad body of work that began with the Parent Leadership Indicators Project.

This Parent Power and Leadership Survey findings report focuses on parent leadership initiatives that develop leadership skills and knowledge to work collectively toward racial, social, or economic justice. Family engagement leadership.

The Center for Policy, Research, and Evaluation (PRE) conducts applied research and evaluation studies focused on promoting positive educational outcomes for youth, and understanding the influence of both schools and communities on those outcomes. These PRE Research Briefs communicate the essential elements, methodologies, participant recruitment, relevant survey or moderator guide and report formant.

Our report provides a primarily qualitative analysis of fidelity and quality of support for student learning in the implementation of the EFA initiative in 16 Boston Public Schools serving 4-6th grade students.

The Center for Policy, Research, and Evaluation is studying a cohort of five leading youth-serving organizations to better understand relationships among racial identity formation.

PRE is working closely with BPS to conduct a 2 year, mixed-method formative evaluation of BEES to understand how the programs works and to determine if participation in BEES has an impact on science outcomes for students.

This project, funded by the Spencer Foundation, explores how children learn and thrive when their parents and family members belong to parent leadership and organizing groups.

With access to high-quality leadership training and development, parents can become powerful advocates for greater opportunities for children, and the family becomes a vital constituency for improved child and community outcomes.

A program that enables parents to become advocates for children and focuses on parents as partners with agencies and leaders.