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Celebrating multilingualism to unlock the potential of family engagement
November 27, 2023 Written by Elisabeth O'Bryon, Chief Impact Officer and Co-founder, Family Engagement Lab For decades, the education community has sought to unravel the complexities of what contributes to a child’s educational success. Countless studies have explored a multitude of factors, from socioeconomic status and student background to teacher characteristics to the type of school a student attends. However, one factor consistently stands out as a key determinant of educational achievement: family engagement in a child’s education. Click here to read the full article. |
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Cambiar Thrive Grant Awards $3 Million to Cutting-Edge Organizations Providing Families With Student Data and Insights
SAN DIEGO, CA, November 15, 2023 - Today, Cambiar Education, in partnership with Tyton Partners and with support from the Walton Family Foundation, Overdeck Family Foundation, Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, announced award recipients of the Thrive Grant, a $3 million program to surface new, innovative approaches to providing parents and caregivers with easy-to-obtain, meaningful, and actionable information about their child’s K-12 education and development. Click here to read the full press release. |
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Family Engagement Lab Announces Four New Powerhouse Board Members to Guide its Growth in K-12 School Districts
SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB) JUNE 27, 2023 Family Engagement Lab, a national nonprofit and leader in the advancement of learning-centered family engagement in PreK-12 school systems, announced today four new Board of Director appointments to support its mission to catalyze equitable family engagement and student learning by bridging classroom curriculum and at-home learning. Click here to read the full press release. |
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Hechinger Report March 17, 2022 Translating a quarter of a million text messages for families One small town experiments with new messaging platform to reach families that don’t speak English at home Click here to read the full article. |
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RFF Shout Out: Family Engagement Lab December 15, 2021 Family Engagement Lab ignites the potential in millions of families to support their child’s learning with FASTalk (Families and Schools Talk) their premier engagement tool. FASTalk promotes equity and builds partnerships between teachers and historically underserved families by sharing accessible, impactful, and engaging, at-home learning activities via text messages in each family’s home language. Click here to read the full article. |
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Why Schools Can’t Talk About Family Engagement Without Talking About Race November 17, 2021 Family Engagement Lab Co-founder and CEO Vidya Sundaram weighs in on how racism in schools is impacting families as well as students. Click here to read the full article. |
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FASTalk: Activating the Power of Families to Support Mathematics
September 28, 2021 Family Engagement Lab’s evidence-based #FASTalk tool serves as an equitable approach to engaging families in mathematics. Read about their partnership with IM in this week’s featured blog post written by Family Engagement Lab Co-Founder and Chief Impact Officer, Elisabeth O'Bryon and Managing Editor, Megan Lorio. Click here to read the full blog post. |
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Clayton Christensen Institute. Family engagement reimagined: Innovations strengthening family-school connections to help students thrive
September 28, 2021 Schools and K-12 programs must evolve from communicating to families to engaging with families as partners in their students’ learning. Family Engagement Lab is featured in new research from Mahnaz Charania, PhD, of the Clayton Christensen Institute that reimagines family engagement. Click here to read the full report. |
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EdReports: 5 Ways to Engage Families Around Student Learning (and why you should!)
September 20, 2021 Family Engagement Lab Co-Founder and Chief Impact Officer, Elisabeth O'Bryon and Lauren Weisskirk, Chief Strategy Officer at EdReports, highlight a range of strategies for school systems to leverage parental involvement to accelerate student learning and forge trust. Click here to read the full blog post. |
July 2021
- FASTalk is highlighted in the Overdeck Family Foundation blog on supporting kindergarten readiness and early school success.
- Family Engagement Lab is one of the featured technology nonprofits in an article by FutureEd, highlighting that engaging families effectively and equitably in their children’s learning is no small feat.
- Family Engagement Lab was featured in an essay and video supplementing the new report from the Carnegie Corporation of New York on Family Engagement: Embracing a New Normal: Toward a More Liberatory Approach to Family Engagement by Karen L. Mapp and Eyal Bergman.
- Kelsey Knox joins Family Engagement Lab's Board of Directors. Click here to read more about Kelsey’s experience or see the full announcement.
June 2021
- Family Engagement Lab's Chief Impact Officer and Co-Founder Elisabeth O'Bryon penned an article for the Greater Good Magazine on how technology can support meaningful family engagement and promote literacy development, prosociality, and equity.
May 2021
- Family Engagement Lab's CEO Vidya Sundaram is featured in The Grade article: Parents Front and Center.
- Zoom portraits - Carnegie Corporation of New York featured reflections from stakeholders in an upended education system.
April 2021
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September 2020
June 2020
- FASTalk's impact in Oakland highlighted in Great School Voices
- Press Release: FASTalk bridges language gap between parents and teachers during pandemic (Spanish version)
- Press Release: Study Shows FASTalk Meaningfully Advances Academic Achievement, Significant
Literacy Gains Observed - Press Release: Free Early Childhood At-Home School Readiness Program to Assist New Orleans Area Families with School Success
May 2020
- Press Release: FASTalk Offers Summer Learning Tool to Extend Learning Time
April 2020
- Co-founders Vidya Sundaram and Elisabeth O'Bryon featured in Thrive Global
- Press Release: FASTalk Offers Expert Learning Tips and Resources to Maximize Learning for Families Without Internet Access
March 2020
- Co-Founders Vidya Sundaram and Elisabeth O’Bryon were featured as Inspirational Women in STEM and Tech by Authority Magazine
February 2020
- Co-Founder Elisabeth O'Bryon shares six strategies for supporting students and families, no matter what language they speak, in her article "Keeping the Family Close," featured in the February issue of Language Magazine (pages 24-27)
December 2019
- Oakland Teacher uses FASTalk to Engage Parents in Student Learning (Tech & Learning)
November 2019
- FASTalk Featured as a Top Digital Learning Strategy by Teacher in Oakland, CA (eSchool News)
- Family Engagement Lab Launches Learning Series for Educators (District Administration, THE EDVOCATE)
- Family Engagement Lab Founders Featured in Fordham's Wonk-A-Thon
October 2019
- FASTalk Featured as Learning Counsel's "App of the Week"
- FASTalk Wins Zaentz Early Education Innovation Challenge at Harvard
September 2019
- Family Engagement Lab Co-Founder Featured on Two La Red Hispana Weekly Programs: La Doctora Isabel Gómez-Bassols and Dr. Eduardo Lopez Navarro.
- Innovation Challenge Names 15 Finalists (The Sector)
February 2019
- Family Engagement Lab team highlighted as part of the Oakland Literacy Coalition Member Network
July 2018
- J-PAL North America Announces Inaugural Partners for Education, Technology, Opportunity and Innovation Competition (MIT News)
March 2018
- Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley announces Greater Good Parenting grantees (Greater Good Science Center)
March 2017
- As education goes digital, some parents are left behind (EdSurge)
- How to keep parents onboard and informed using classroom tech (EdTech Focus on K-12)