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Title
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Fostering Family-Educator Collaboration for Parent Power in Salt Lake City
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Abstract/Description
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The goal of the Family-School Collaboration Design Research Project, the local FLDC site in Utah, is to design spaces where families have real, collective impact on school-site decision making. The central focus has been on redesigning School Community Councils (SCCs), Utah’s forum for shared governance between families and schools. SCC’s are failing — perhaps designed to fail — in schools serving low-wealth communities of color. Salt Lake City partners put the re-design of SCCs in the hands of those who are best equipped: families and educators themselves. This ongoing project is a partnership that includes: The Community Advocate Network, a group of Latinx families organized around issues of education and wellbeing The College of Education at the University of Utah The Salt Lake City School District Office of Family-School Collaboration University Neighborhood Partners, a department of the University of Utah, dedicated to building resident-led university-community partnerships. During Phase 1, families and educators developed a set of principles for re-imagining SCCs as equitable, family-centered spaces. In Phase 2 the project expanded to include broader questions of how schools can welcome and value families. Currently, parents are piloting a peer-to-peer outreach effort around SCCs.
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Date
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2020
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In publication
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Family Leadership Design Collaborative
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Language
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en-US
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Open access/full-text available
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Yes
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Peer reviewed
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No
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Citation
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Family Leadership Design Collaborative. (2020). Fostering Family-Educator Collaboration for Parent Power in Salt Lake City. Family Leadership Design Collaborative. https://familydesigncollab.org/2020/04/23/fostering-family-educator-collaboration-for-parent-power-in-salt-lake-city/
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