Family & Community Students & Families

Family and Community Involvement

Additional Resources

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence offers hundreds of teaching & learning resources including historical documents, scientific experiments, mathematical challenges, famous paintings, & other tools for teachers & students from more than 35 federal agencies.

Massachusetts Department of Social Services
Provides information on community and family connections that center on the well being of children and families.

The Massachusetts Library and Information Network offers a guide to the library resources of Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Science Resource Guide provides interactive links to many of the statewide resources which extend further opportunities for scientific inquiry and exploration. These resources were selected primarily to offer hands-on experiences to students, teachers and parents.

Museums and Learning: A Guide to Family Visits was produced as a collaborative effort between the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement and the Smithsonian Office of Education. Besides basic information about museums and how they relate to learning, the guide includes: activities for children and families to do before, during, and after the museum visit; ways to inspire children to use their thinking skills while in museums and to carry that knowledge home; ideas for how families and schools can work together to help children learn from museum visits; and a sampling of museum resources