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Child and Parent Working together

Our researchers working collaboratively to develop novel, engaging, participatory, and culturally responsive ways to explore family engagement and leadership

Featured Research

High school hallway filled with students

Parent Leadership Indicators Project

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.
Title page for the School/Distric Family Leadership Framework

The School/District Family Leadership Framework

This tool lists key conditions schools and districts should consider in order to provide the infrastructure, capacity-building, and relationships for meaningful and equitable family leadership.

Additional Research

The assistant principal and counselor from Middletown High School visit with a student and his mother outside the family’s home during the school day.

Kentucky Collaborative Research Study

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

Parent Leadership Indicators Project

We are researchers/evaluators working collaboratively to develop novel, engaging, participatory, and culturally responsive ways to evaluate parent leadership development initiatives. This website will share evaluation tools as they are created and will serve as a hub for both quantitative and qualitative evaluation findings.