Upcoming Events
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Workshop: National Assembly for Family Engagement in Education
October 21-25, 2024, Denver, CO In this interactive session for educators and school leaders, participants will learn high-impact, equitable, actionable strategies families can use to support math learning outside of the classroom. Participants will also reflect on their current practices, as well as the specific needs and experiences of families in their communities. Using an action planning tool, participants will identify new strategies to help measure and accelerate the impact of their math-focused family engagement work. Session: Friday, October 25, 2024 10:00am-11:15am MST |
Past Events
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Webinar: Family Engagement Essentials for a Successful School Year
July 24, 2024 at 8:00 am PT | 11:00 am ET It's the perfect time to start planning your family engagement strategy for next school year. Join Elisabeth O'Bryon and the team at BetterLesson to explore practical tips and strategies to build a welcoming, inclusive, learning-focused student success team. Participants will receive a Family Engagement Basics Toolkit for teachers designed to equip educators with a few high-impact strategies and message templates for engaging families during the back-to-school season. Webinar: Boosting Math Confidence: Strategies to Combat Math Anxiety in Elementary Schools
July 10, 2024 at 11:00 am PT | 2:00 pm ET Presented by Dr. Elisabeth O'Bryon, Co-Founder and Chief Impact Officer, Family Engagement Lab; Bonni Jones, Graduate Researcher, Utah State University; and James Sanders, Product Marketing Manager, Unruly Studios Sponsored by Unruly Math |
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NewSchools Summit 2024
May 15-16, 2024 | San Francisco, CA Vidya will be attending the New Schools Summit in San Francisco. NewSchools Summit is an essential gathering for change-makers seeking fresh perspectives and solutions for a dynamic time in education. Join us for networking, learning, and conversations with inspiring leaders and innovators working to reimagine K-12 education. Let us know if you're attending! |
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Advances in Early Math Education: Critical Issues in Policy and Practice
May 3, 2024 | Palo Alto, CA Elisabeth will be attending the Advances in Early Math Education: Critical Issues in Policy and Practice conference hosted by DREME and the Stanford Center on Early Childhood celebrating the progress made in the last decade in research and practice related to early math learning. |
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OCDOE Family & Community Partnerships Networking Meeting
April 19, 2024 | Orange County, CA We had the opportunity to join innovative district and school leaders participating in OCDOE’s Family & Community Partnership Network to explore the question What does it look like to engage parents and families in meaningful ways to support student success? |
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ASU + GSV Summit and AIR Show
April 14-17, 2024 | San Diego, CA Vidya attended the ASU + GSV Summit in San Diego, where she spent her time connecting with educators, entrepreneurs, and funders. Vidya shared, “It is clear that K-12 education is shifting, and there is a lot to be optimistic about.” Some key themes that emerged from the summit
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Plain Talk About Literacy and Learning
January 31-February 2, 2024 | New Orleans, LA | Hilton Riverside New Orleans Featuring presenter Megan Lorio, Managing Editor at Family Engagement Lab Plain Talk is a three-day institute on teaching, leading, and learning hosted by The Center for Literacy & Learning. Plain Talk offers relevant and innovative sessions that are focused on evidence-based practices that drive student, teacher, and school success. It is regarded as the premier literacy event in the country. |
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CAFEN Inaugural Conference & Retreat
Organized by Parent Organization Network December 7-8, 2023 | Los Angeles, CA Landscape of Educator Capacity Building in Family Engagement at the National Level Featuring panelist Vidya Sundaram, CEO & Co-founder at Family Engagement Lab |
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2023 EL Education National Conference: ELevate
Creating Your Parent-Teacher Playbook Vidya Sundaram, CEO and Dr. Elisabeth O'Bryon, Chief Impact Officer Family Engagement Lab |
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2023 Families Learning Conference
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Texas Parent & Family Engagement Conference
(ESSA) topics in parent and family engagement among all stakeholders with an interest in improving teaching and learning. Click here to learn more or connect with us |
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Engaging and Connecting with Socially and Economically Marginalized Families
Every child deserves equitable access to high-quality early learning experiences that will put them on a successful path in school and life. Explore Waterford’s personalized blend of reading, math, and science programs for PreK-2 learners. Learn More |
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University of Central Arkansas | College of Education
Creating Your Parent-Teacher Playbook Dr. Elisabeth O'Bryon, Chief Impact Officer and Megan Lorio, Managing Editor. You can view a recording of the webinar here. |
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Family Engagement Learning Series: Family Engagement to Support Student Success
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Carnegie Corporation of New York, and Overdeck Family Foundation. We are excited to share the webinar recording and resources from this session featuring Dr. Karen Mapp, Springboard Collaborative, Los Angeles Unified School District, Family Engagement Lab, and the DeSoto Parish School Board. You can view a recording of the webinar here. |
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Investing in the Future of Family-School Partnerships
presented by Grantmakers for Education
One of the root causes of the growing mistrust between the public and our public education system is the inconsistent, and sometimes missing, day-to-day interactions between families and communities and their schools. In this session, attendees will reflect on the current and future state of these interactions and consider systemic solutions to improve family-school partnerships, including National PTA’s recently updated National Standards for Family-School Partnerships. Attendees will hear from family, community and education leaders (including Vidya Sundaram, CEO & Co-founder at Family Engagement Lab) about the barriers they face to partnership and how they overcome them, as well as learn from other funders how they can create entry points in their portfolios to support this important work. This event is intended for members and other education grantmakers. There is no cost to attend this Grantmakers for Education program. Registration closes 15 minutes prior to the program time. |
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Powering Up Early Childhood Conference 2022
Presentation: "Supporting our Youngest Readers: Use Data, not Donuts" Education Sessions presented by Megan Lorio, Managing Editor |
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Use Data, Not Donuts: Supporting Family Engagement for Equitable Learning
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Louisiana Department of Education - Teacher Leader Summit
Presentation: "Creating Your Parent-Teacher Playbook" Dr. Elisabeth O'Bryon, Chief Impact Officer and Megan Lorio, Managing Editor |
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The Illustrative Mathematics Experience
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Cracking the Code for Improved Family Engagement
Asian-American Women Leading in EdTech
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Show+Tell: Promising Ventures Fellows
Co-founder and CEO of Family Engagement Lab Vidya Sundaram will be pitching about their product and sharing how you can support them in expanding their early childhood services on March 2, 2022 at Show+Tell: Promising Ventures Fellows. Learn more and register here. |
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2022 National ESEA Conference
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Engaging Families with Social-Emotional Learning
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Back to the Future: Strategies for Centering Families’ Needs Post-Pandemic
National Family Engagement Summit Thursday, October 14, 2021, 1:45PM EST Session presented by Family Engagement Lab Co-founder and Chief Impact Officer, Elisabeth O’Bryon. Participants will learn how to collect and apply family feedback to inform your approach to advancing equitable school-home partnerships that support student learning. Participants will also complete a planning tool to clarify key action steps for developing a family engagement strategy that centers families’ needs. |
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Uniting Schools and Families for our Students: A Conversation with Family Engagement Lab and Springboard Collaborative
Oakland Literacy Coalition Fall Symposium October 1, 2021 | 12:50 - 2:05 PM Pacific Families play a powerful and impactful role in supporting student literacy development. Learn about innovative literacy-focused family engagement approaches by hearing firsthand from local nonprofits Springboard Collaborative and Family Engagement Lab. Springboard will share their methodology of equipping Families to become reading coaches. Through their FELA framework they utilize families as assets in order to extend and sustain a culture of literacy habits and critical thinking that go beyond a classroom. Family Engagement Lab will share more about FASTalk (Families and Schools Talk), their family engagement tool that promotes equity and builds partnerships between teachers and historically underserved families by sharing engaging, at-home literacy activities via text messages in each family’s home language. In our exciting joint session, which includes an interactive Q&A, you will hear from two Oakland organizations that are empowering families, supporting educators, and lifting up students to reach their full potential. |
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Is This Seat Taken? A Roundtable Discussion about Family Members as Co-Creators in Education
Family Engagement Lab proudly participated in the 2021 Teacher Leader Summit, a professional development conference for birth to grade 12 Louisiana educators. In this session, members of the Louisiana Department of Education's Family Literacy Engagement Workgroup and Family Engagement Lab team members discussed the latest research on what families want and expect from their student’s school since the pandemic and how to plan for a future where families are partners and co-creators in their child’s education. Family engagement is recognized as an effective and impactful practice to boost student achievement and school improvement. This round table session brought together diverse perspectives from education practitioners in public and charter PK-12 schools, higher education and the Department to discuss strategic priorities outlined by the Department's workgroup. Strategies were shared for effectively addressing families’ needs through equitable family engagement. |
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Education Writers Association 74th National Seminar Agenda
Family Engagement in a Post-COVID Era Tuesday, May 4, 2021 1-2:15 PM (EDT) The session featured:
To replay the webinar or read the transcript, visit here. |
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Why Shattering the Wall Between Home & School Is a Good Thing
Tuesday, March 30, 2021 3-4:30 PM (EST) Reimagine public education — with no walls between schools and home, parents and teachers. Together, we learned about the most common barriers to strong family engagement in K–3; how technology has opened up the possibility for cost-effective and impactful family engagement strategies; the role that curricula can play in engaging families; and how strong school-home connections support student learning. The session featured:
The webinar recording is accessible from this link after registering. Registration information can be found here. Once you are registered, you can also access the slides from the session. |
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Understanding Latino Families' Experiences to Promote Meaningful Family Engagement National Association of School Psychologists 2021 Annual Convention Wednesday, February 24, 2021 6:15 PM–7:15 PM (ET) To effectively partner and engage families, schools must understand diverse families’ needs and experiences. This session takes a close look at the beliefs and experiences of Latino families that shape and affect their interactions and relationships with schools and educators. Attendees will learn actionable strategies that they can apply to meaningfully engage Latino families, and will have the opportunity to discuss successes and challenges in their own family engagement efforts. This session helps participants:
Visit the convention website for an update on accessing the recording. |
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Parents Eager to Address Learning Loss: Lessons From the Field
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 3-4:30 PM (ET) An esteemed panel, led by Family Engagement Lab, discussed what we are learning from families, including how families want to be engaged and embraced as essential partners and co-producers of good outcomes for their children. This session will also feature lessons learned from school closures and their effect on parent-teacher collaboration; support for at-home learning moving forward; insights from diverse school communities from coast to coast; and recommended approaches to centering families in learning. Access to a full summary of the webinar and the associated resources is available here. To view the webinar recording, sign up for the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading. Go to the Partner Webinar collection on the CGLR, Community Learning for Impact and Improvement Platform, or CLIP, at clipglr.org. |
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Supporting Our Youngest Readers: Use Data, not Donuts (Workshop)
National ESEA Conference Wednesday, February 10, 2021 3:30 - 4:30 PM (ET) Interactive workshop:
Register for the 2021 National ESEA Conference to access a recording of the webinar until May 1, 2021. After this date, the webinar will be accessible via the Video on Demand section of the ESEA Network website. |
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Supporting Families with At-Home Learning: What We’ve Learned from School Closures
Grantmakers for Education Annual Conference Monday, February 1, 2021 10 - 11 AM (PT) Topics discussed:
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Register with Grantmakers for Education to receive a link to the recording from this session. |