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Bailes, PhD Meaghan N. Vitale  \nIntroduction  \nIn 2015, the Wilmington Education Improvement Commission, now known as the Redding Consortium for Educational Equity, called for an end to “confrontational dialogue”, which blamed parents in part for the ongoing failure of Wilmington’s schools . Instead, the group emphasized the importance of parent and family engagement to the effectiveness of public education. However, the complex task of navigating educational systems has become further complicated by the pandemic over the past two years. Some in-person opportunities for family engagement are no longer available, some schools do not have the technological or human resource infrastructure to prioritize family engagement, and some families’ other care and professional commitments have simply made engagement with the school prohibitively difficult. Therefore, it is more critical than ever to ensure that parents and families have timely, complete, and meaningful access to information from their students’ schools.  \nThis brief addresses what we already know about how families of school-aged students get, use, and circulate information. We also report new findings from our own data collection regarding how families seek out information and which kinds of families are most likely to go to which information sources inside or outside of schools. Parent engagement is associated with a host of desirable and beneficial outcomes, including: better grades and test scores, more pro-social student behaviors, better attendance, higher graduation rates, and high college admission rates (Kakli et al., 2006; Henderson & Mapp, 2002) . Our goal is to inform schools about ways that they can make information about schools more accessible to more families so that families feel empowered to engage with their students’ educational processes.  \n􀃹 [udel.edu/ppe](udel.edu/ppe) | 􀆼 ppe-info@udel.edu |  @UDPPE  \nWhy parent engagement matters  \nWhen parents and families engage with schools, their students do better academically, socially, and developmentally (Fenton et al., 2017) . This is true across the P12 spectrum, although family engagement can look very different as students mature. For example, families with children in early grades (e. g., elementary school) might engage with schools by attending events or helping with homework. Since middle and upper grade students are closer to completing secondary education, they might benefit from different kinds of support. As such, families might connect with school faculty over report card conferences or collaborate in college-preparatory activities like college visits or essay-writing.  \nEngagement requires information  \nHowever, the reality is that schools sometimes make it hard for families to support their students because opportunities to engage with schools are not always clear or readily accessible. Teachers perceive families to be engaged when they volunteer for school councils or in the classroom, attend school events, and initiate communication with the teacher (Hillier et al., 2019) . The most engaged families are also the most likely to know where to get information about their students’schools. Attending school events allows families to form social networks that gather and share information. Families who are involved in school organizations (e. g., PTAs) are likely to have a greater number of social contacts (Alameda-Lawson & Lawson, 2018; Cappelletti, 2017) and thus access to a greater number of resources, including information. Moreover, the engaged families are also most likely to be able to use that information to advantage their students when it comes to things like opting into advanced or AP classes (Lyken-Segosebe & Hinz, 2015) . However, not all families have the same access to those networks and the information and opportunities available through those networks (Cappelletti, 2017) .  \nFamilies have different kinds of access ba","cbCaiq7RHjoTitVc","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiq7RHjoTitVc","pdf",4379769,"English","# Introduction\n## Why parent engagement matters\n## Engagement requires information\n## How families use information","[{\"question\":\"Why is timely access to school information critical for families?\",\"answer\":\"Because navigating educational systems has become harder, families need timely, complete, and meaningful information from their students’ schools to engage effectively. 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