Thought Leadership

Family Engagement Lab offers educators and practitioners thought leadership services in support of equitable family engagement practices and tools, backed by research.

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​Supporting our Learners: Building Equitable Family Engagement

A data-driven and hands-on approach 
​In this workshop, participants explore existing data on families’ needs and preferences when it comes to meaningfully partnering with educators to support student success. Then participants discuss actionable strategies for learning more about the specific and unique needs of families and how to apply those insights to inform their family engagement approach and key practices in their district or school.

Who should attend:

• Teachers, administrators, curriculum leads, instructional coaches

Participants will:

• Increase their knowledge of evidence-based, high-impact family engagement practices.
• Learn how to use data and insights from families to inform their approach to building school-home partnerships that support student learning.
• Initiate or refine planning for their district or school community to effective and equitably engage families.
• Complete a Family Engagement Planning Tool that will help clarify key action steps for developing your school or district family engagement approach. 
• Learn how our current technology, FASTalk, can promote equity and build partnerships between teachers and historically underserved families by sharing engaging, at-home learning activities via text messages in each family’s home language. 

Morris Jeff Community School teachers who attended the professional learning workshop, Supporting our Learners: Building Equitable Family Engagement, created the word cloud above of how they were feeling about new ideas for engaging families.

What you get:

• Research-based insights on high-impact, equitable family engagement practices shown to support positive learning outcomes for students. 
• Action plan for developing an equitable family engagement strategy for your classroom, school or district that centers on the needs of families.

Length: 90 minutes

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