Family Engagement Lab is a national nonprofit that catalyzes equitable family engagement and student learning by bridging classroom curriculum and at-home learning.

What We Offer

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.
Family Engagement Consulting
Family engagement consulting, centered around a framework and diagnostics for teachers, districts, states and other education organizations to build relationships with historically underserved families.
Professional Learning
States, districts, and schools build the capacity to implement and sustain equitable family engagement efforts.
We develop authentic family engagement
To benefit key stakeholders
  • 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
  • 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 a family engagement tool that promotes equity and builds partnerships between teachers and historically underserved families by sharing engaging, at-home learning activities via text messages in each family's home language.

FASTalk Boosts Literacy Achievement

Who We Serve

71% low-income families

33% non-English speaking families
67% people of color
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 5 million messages directly related to student learning.

Federal pandemic relief funding can be applied to the use of FASTalk and Family Engagement Lab's professional learning services in your state or district.
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