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        <h1>Hello, AERA!</h1>
        <p class="jumbo-group">Since 2010, the U.S. Department of Education (DoE) has been funding Investing in Innovation (i3) grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) and non-profits partnering with LEAs. The DoE defines innovation as, “A process, product, strategy, or practice that improves (or is expected to improve) significantly upon the outcomes reached with status quo options and that can ultimately reach widespread effective usage.” Several of these grants have identified family engagement as their absolute priority or include a substantial family engagement component. These highly competitive grants have focused on developing and validating innovative programs and practices to strengthen opportunities for marginalized families to be engaged in their children’s education. </p>
        <p class="jumbo-group">This AERA symposium highlights key lessons and impacts from four of these grants.</p>
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      <h2 class="page-divider">Learn about each innovation</h2>
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      <h2>Building Powerful Family Leadership for Educational Success</h2>
      <h5>PTA Comunitario in Texas’ Rio Grande Valley</h5>
      <p class="story1">The Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) partnering with five South Texas school districts and community-based organizations (CBOs), is studying the effects of its innovative parent and community engagement model, the PTA ... </p>
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      <h2>What Does it Take to Form Meaningful Connections among Cultural Brokers, Parents, and Teachers?</h2>
      <h5>Lessons from the i3 We Are A Village Grant</h5>
      <p class="story2">This question emerged from the evaluation of an Investing in Innovation (i3) grant, entitled We Are a Village, issued by the U.S. Department of Education to the Central Falls, Rhode Island ...  </p>
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      <h2>FAST for all Kindergartners:</h2>
      <h5>A Randomized Controlled Trial on Family Engagement and School Climate Effects</h5>
      <p class="story3">Families and Schools Together (FAST) for Kindergartners is the parent involvement and family engagement strategy used in 60 Title I-eligible schools in Philadelphia. The purpose of FAST is to increase parent social support, improve parent-child relationships ...</p>
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      <h2>Parent Involvement and Engagement in the Midwest Child-Parent Center Expansion Program</h2>
      <p class="story4">The Midwest Child-Parent Center program (MCPC) is a PreK to 3rd grade (PK-3) program designed to improve low-income children’s school success, in part through enhancing parental involvement in their children’s education. As an innovative and targeted approach.. <!-- to school reform ... --></p>
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      <h2 class="page-divider">Stay in Touch</h2>
      <p class="center-page">Ever feel like you leave AERA wishing you had many more opportunities to share ideas with fellow researchers? We’ll e-mail you when the website has been updated with a summary of questions raised and issues discussed at the symposium. And, feel free to add any additional questions or ideas you might not have had a chance to share at the symposium!</p>
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