The Comer School Development Program affiliated with the Yale Child Study Center, http://www.schooldevelopmentprogram.org/index.aspx

This site includes the components of the School Development Program, in which family input into school decision making plays a primary role. Check out the publications page for recent articles and texts written by Comer and others.

The Connection Collection maintained by Southwest Educational Developmental Laboratory, www.sedl.org/connections/resources/bibsearch.html

This is an excellent school-family-community publications database from the National Center for Family and Community Connections with Schools. SEDL had several toolkits with free downloadable materials for family and community engagement.

Harvard Family Research Project, http://www.hfrp.org/

With a strong influence of Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Theory, researchers focus on approaches and evaluation of complementary learning projects (early care and education, out-of-school time, and family and community involvement in education). The site offers links to sign up for free subscriptions to their latest news and publications.

National Network of Partnership Schools (Epstein), http://www.csos.jhu.edu/p2000/

This is a site for schools, districts, and states using Epstein’s family-school partnership framework. Check out the Success Stories in the Spotlight: Promising Partnership Practices page for descriptions of successful activities from partnership schools, organized by the six keys of Epstein’s model.