John W. Fantuzzo, Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations,  director of Penn Child Research Center and co-director of Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy in the Graduate School of Education’s Education Policy Division; Katie Barghaus, executive director of the Penn Child Research Center (PCRC) and a senior research investigator with the Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy (AISP) Network; and the team at the Penn Child Research Center at GSE, have been awarded a grant from the William Penn Foundation for $268,400.

The grant, titled Building an evidence-based, sustainable, family-teacher engagement intervention to support kindergartners’ classroom engagement competencies, aims to enhance home-school partnership to promote young children’s engagement skills.