![People researching family, school, and community engagement in education](https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/fsce-evidence-generation-landing-2.png?quality=75&w=500)
Expanding the research base and dialogue on how to build better FSCE practices, partnerships, and policies.
Building strong family, school, and community partnerships that support student learning and development and thriving schools and communities
Part of the Center for Universal Education in
Explore the initiative:
The Family, School, and Community Engagement (FSCE) in Education initiative at the Center for Universal Education focuses on building strong partnerships that support student learning and development and thriving schools and communities.
Our work is concentrated in three areas:
Expanding the research base and dialogue on how to build better FSCE practices, partnerships, and policies.
Developing tools to help educators, families, and decision-makers promote evidence-based and community-driven FSCE practices and partnerships.
Fostering knowledge-sharing, peer learning, and critical dialogues on FSCE with a wide range of actors to catalyze and promote collective action and education system transformation efforts.
We define family, school, and community engagement (FSCE) as the different ways that families, schools, and community leaders or groups work together to promote equitable and inclusive student learning and development and support schools to thrive. Engagement can take different forms depending on the context, but the intention is to support greater collaborations and partnerships to ensure quality teaching and learning and to transform the education system to better serve students, families, and communities.
We use the term “family” to refer to any and all individuals who play a leading role in caregiving of learners, including parents and guardians but also extended family members like grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, and beyond. “Family” includes caregivers who do not have biological relationships with learners but are responsible for parenting. We define “community” as the partners and organizations that support schools, students, and families.
2024