It is essential that student and family voice is included in the advancement of justice in education policy and practice. The Student and Family Voices research brief series poses policy, practice, and research implications for students, parents/caregivers, educators, policymakers, school districts, nonprofits, and communities.
PRE Research Brief Series: Student and Family Voices #1
This brief shares findings from a longitudinal study of six established youth organizing (YO) groups (among approximately 300 nationwide). Youth organizing engages mostly BIPOC and low-income young people in collective, youth-led work to identify and address inequities that constrain their opportunities.
PRE Research Brief Series: Student and Family Voices #2
The 4M framework, introduced in this brief, stems from a qualitative case study exploring the impact of a cultural broker on educators in one school located in a mid-size southern city, where >85% of the students were Black, and the majority of teachers were White. The cultural broker, who was also the school’s community school coordinator, facilitated an in-service professional development program, called Teachers Involving Parents (TIP).
PRE Research Brief Series: Student and Family Voices #3
The findings and policy recommendations presented in this brief emerge from a qualitative case study exploring the Berea Community Elementary School’s (BCES) and the Berea Independent School District’s adaptation of the dual-capacity building framework (DCBF) for family-school partnerships (Mapp & Bergman, 2019; Mapp & Bergman, 2021).
PRE Research Brief Series: Student and Family Voices #4
This brief synthesizes findings from three studies focused on understanding how community-based organizations and youth leadership councils can shape young people’s learning, leadership, well-being, and critical consciousness.