| Beyond the Building: A Facilitation Guide for School, Family, and Community Connections: This multimedia toolkit will help educators and community organizers understand and learn how to facilitate family and community involvement. |  |
| Building Support for Better Schools: Seven Steps to Engaging Hard-to-Reach Communities: This practical guide is designed for educators, civic leaders, community organizers, and anyone else interested in involving traditionally hard-to-reach communities. |  |
| Diversity: School, Family, & Community Connections: This research synthesis examines roles that culturally diverse families can play in increasing student achievement and explores barriers to family involvement. It also discusses strategies schools can use to address those barriers. |  |
| Emerging Issues in School, Family, & Community Connections: This research synthesis explores research that clarifies the concept of family and community connections with schools, measures the outcomes of these connections, frames issues, and identifies critical areas for future research. |  |
| Family and Community Involvement: Reaching Out to Diverse Populations: This book is geared toward teachers, principals, and superintendents who want to develop meaningful parent and community involvement from culturally and linguistically diverse community members. |  |
| A New Wave of Evidence: The Impact of School, Family, and Community Connections on Student Achievement: SEDL’s best-selling and often-cited research synthesis highlights 150 research studies on different kinds of school, family, and community connections and the results these connections can have on student achievement. |  |
| Readiness: School, Family, & Community Connections: This research synthesis describes 48 research studies addressing factors associated with children’s readiness to attend school. |  |
| SEDLetter: Family and Community Connections With Schools: This issue of SEDL’s award-winning magazine focuses on family and community connections with schools, school-based mentoring, charter schools, and teacher education programs. |  |
| Thriving Together: Connecting Rural School Improvement and Community Development: This book is designed to give educators the background information and basic tools needed to get started with a joint school-community development effort. |  |
| What's Going on in My Child's School: A Parent's Guide to Good Schools: This booklet is for parents who want to understand how and why schools are changing their approach. It takes readers inside classrooms that are using innovative approaches to learning with impressive results. |  |
