Strong Schools/Tactic Briefings

During the school design process, CityBridge Foundation and our partners developed preliminary versions of educational tactic briefings that may be useful for other leaders and teachers in the early childhood and elementary education fields.

Parental Involvement  
Researchers have long identified parental involvement with schools as crucial to their children’s educational success. This briefing reviews what experts see as the main obstacles to parental involvement, and outlines successful approaches practitioners have taken to build strong relationships with parents.

Parental Involvement briefing

Home Visiting
Well-received home visits can bridge the divide between parents and schools, and allow teachers to learn more about their students. Based on a review of sources and interviews with experienced practitioners, this briefing provides a granular-level “how-to” guide for teachers conducting visits to their young students’ homes.

Home visiting briefing

Ultimately, CityBridge will create and disseminate a wide array of similar “products” that share our design and operations work with our partner schools. These “tactic briefings” will make our experience available to the larger field of early education.