Center for Research on Families to Host Lecture on “The Power of Partnerships: Research Evidence and Strategies for Success”

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Susan M. Sheridan, the George Holmes University Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, will present "The Power of Partnerships: Research Evidence and Strategies for Success,” Thursday, Nov. 1 at 4 p.m. in 160E Commonwealth Honors College.

The event, which is part of the Center for Research on Families’ Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture Series, is free and open to the public.

There is overwhelming research support pointing to the important role of parents in supporting their child’s behavior and academic performance. Family-school partnership interventions engage families and educators as partners in collaborative and mutual planning and problem solving. Partnership approaches have a dual focus on coordinating effective interventions across home and school, and strengthening relationships between families and educators. This presentation will define partnerships between families and schools, describe what is necessary for partnerships to be effective, explore benefits for students, parents and teachers and discuss best practice recommendations.

Sheridan is the founding director of the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools. She studies the important role of families and family engagement in children’s social-behavioral adjustment and academic success, and the far-reaching benefits of partnerships between families and schools. Her research career has focused on developing and testing the effectiveness of family–school partnership interventions, identifying methods to enhance parent engagement, early childhood education and intervention and rural education.

The Center for Research on Families (CRF) is an endowed interdisciplinary research center in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and College of Natural Sciences. The Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture Series, which began in 1999 through an endowment established in memory of Tay Gavin Erickson, brings multiple speakers with expertise in family research to campus each year. 

More information about the event and Susan Sheridan can be found here.