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Program Manager/Administrator: Collaboration Resources
What Can Schools Do to Foster Family - School Connections?
http://www.sedl.org/connections/resources/rb/rb5-diverse.pdf
A new strategy brief from the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) helps answer this question. It discusses strategies helpful to schools that want to broaden and deepen involvement beyond the traditional fundraising or party-planning activities. Schools that are successful involving families are able to build on the cultural values of families and foster communication with families. Although written for a K - 12 audience there is useful information for family literacy programs.
The BC Framework of Statements and Standards of Best Practices in Family Literacy
http://www.nald.ca/fulltext/framwork/framwork.pdf
This document details the process by which Literacy BC came up with its framework of standards for family literacy, as well as the actual framework itself in the form of a series of statements followed by a checklist. It offers a general window into family literacy that should not be viewed as prescriptive. It is a useful tool as an introductory guideline to one strengths-centered view of family literacy and not a comprehensive guide to program implementation.
Community Partnerships for Adult Learning
http://www.c-pal.net/
Community Partnerships for Adult Learning (C-PAL) is a site dedicated to encouraging the creation of partnerships to improve the quality of adult education in the United States. Experts across the country helped select a broad range of high-quality community building and adult education resources for this site, including how-to's, research reports, and links to relevant websites, sorted by topic and potential user.
Family Literacy: Who Benefits?
http://literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/Pubs/famlit-whobenefits2000.pdf
This publication contains useful and timely resources that can be used to show the positive effects of family literacy programs.
Building Strong and Effective Community Partnerships: A Manual for Family Literacy Workers
http://www.nald.ca/clr/partner/contents.htm
This on-line manual is a great resource for collaboration, an important part of any successful family literacy program. Contains step-by-step considerations, worksheets, evaluation instruments, and more.
Family Literacy Starter Kit
http://www.aelweb.vcu.edu/pdf/famlitkit.pdf
The Family Literacy Starter Kit offers general background information and an overview of the issues for adult education and literacy staff members and/or volunteers. It is written for adult educators who are planning a new family literacy program or expanding family literacy-related services, but it may also be helpful information for a new staff person in an existing program. It is intended as a first reference, not a complete guide. The family literacy field grows richer in resources every day, and we do not need to duplicate existing materials."
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