Awards/Recognition

Harvard Family Research ProjectUSDE Innovations
Selected in 2010 by the National Family, School, and Community Engagement Working Group, coordinated by the Harvard Family Research Project, as one of twelve examples of leading innovations in family engagement, Taking Leadership, Innovating Change. 

 

 

Tellin' Stories is featured in a full-length article in the Spring 2009 (Vol. 23 No. 03) edition of Rethinking Schools.

The National Education Association (NEA) produced a 10-minute film about the work of Tellin' Stories. Check out the film online. The film was produced for a 3-day NEA/Maryland State Parental Information and Resource Center (MD PIRC)-sponsored training institute that our staff provided to teacher and parent teams from across the country.

The work of Tellin' Stories was featured in the 2nd edition of the National Association of Elementary School Principals Sharing the Dream Report on Promising Practices (PDF).

Tellin' Stories was featured on the PBS To the Contrary program in July, 2002.

A parent activist with Tellin' Stories, Sandra Cruz, received the 2nd annual PRRAC Edith Witt Internship Award.

Tellin' Stories was the 2001 MetLife Foundation Teacher-Parent Engagement Through Partnership Award.