Family Engagement Lab is a national nonprofit organization that catalyzes equitable family engagement to help students achieve academic, social, and emotional success.

What we offer

Family Engagement Strategies

​Teachers, districts, and states deepen partnerships with historically underserved families.

Family Engagement Tools

​Educators easily send to families welcoming and inclusive text messages with weekly activities in each family’s home language to reinforce classroom learning.

Professional Learning

​States, districts, and schools build the capacity to implement and sustain equitable family engagement efforts.

We develop authentic family engagement

  • Districts and schools - Establish equitable family engagement practices to partner with historically underserved families
  • States - Build trust in serving local communities 
  • Education Organizations - Expand impact by engaging families in learning

To benefit key stakeholders

  • Teachers - Easy way to partner with families to boost student learning
  • Families - Tools, connection, and confidence to support at-home learning
  • Students - Increase academic, social, and emotional success

What is authentic family engagement?

  • Educators meet families where they are, with accessible technology and learning-focused activities in their home language.
  • Teachers share welcoming and inclusive activities that are aligned with high-quality curriculum and standards-based objectives.
  • Families know what their children are learning and are empowered to support at-home learning.

FASTalk is an equitable family engagement tool that builds partnerships between teachers and historically underserved families by sharing engaging, at-home activities in each family's home language to reinforce classroom learning.

Impact

1.6 to 2.8 months of literacy gains

​71% low-income families

​33% non-English speaking families

Supporting family engagement during the pandemic and as we recover

Since March 2020, Family Engagement Lab has strengthened school-family partnerships to support learning in grades PK-8. Through FASTalk, schools and families have exchanged more than 1 million messages directly related to student learning.
Family Engagement Lab is a national nonprofit organization that catalyzes equitable family engagement to help students achieve academic, social, and emotional success.​
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