Who We Are
Village Ed improves student outcomes by enhancing partnerships between schools, families, and community partners. The old way of thinking about parent involvement in education doesn't work. We support the development of authentic family partnerships through culturally affirming, data-driven models.
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Village Ed provides consultation, training, and evaluation services to schools and districts seeking to support student success through collaborative partnerships. We specialize in evidence-based family engagement practices, methodology to strengthen school-family-community partnerships, and comprehensive school suicide prevention programming.​
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Let us support your school or district by designing, implementing, evaluating, and improving school-family-community partnerships.
Patrick Cunningham, Ph.D.
Dr. Patrick Cunningham is the founder of Village Ed and an Assistant Professor at Appalachian State University in Professional School Counseling Program. He received his Ph.D. in Counselor Education in 2023 from The Ohio State University. During this time, he developed a passion for family engagement while working with the Ohio Statewide Family Engagement Center, a national leader in equipping schools and families with research-based tools to form more effective partnerships in support of student success. With the center, he led a project focused on partnerships to support student mental health, developed tools for schools and families to facilitate partnerships, and led numerous workshops for educators and families. As a faculty member at App State, his research is focused on family engagement practices, comprehensive school suicide prevention, and school counseling interventions.
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