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Educator Resources

At the Rocky Mountain Family Engagement Collective (RMFEC), we’re dedicated to empowering educators with tools and strategies to build strong partnerships with families. Explore our curated resources designed to enhance communication, foster collaboration, and support student success. Whether you're a classroom teacher, school leader, or district administrator, you'll find valuable insights to strengthen family engagement in your school community.

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Building Trusting Relationships with Families

This guide helps educators build trust with families through meaningful conversations that center on care, mutual respect, and collaboration. It offers practical strategies and questions to better understand families’ goals, needs, fostering stronger partnerships to support student success.

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Communication Reflection Tool

This resource helps educators evaluate and improve communication with families. It encourages reflection on outreach patterns, identifies gaps, and promotes strategies to ensure all families receive consistent, positive, and actionable information to support student success.

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Empathic Listening with Families

This resource introduces empathic listening strategies to help educators build trust with families by validating their emotions, deepening connection, and laying the groundwork for stronger partnerships.

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Family Engagement Problem of Practice Protocol

This resource provides a structured process for collaboratively addressing complex family engagement challenges. It includes roles, guided questions, and strategies for reflective problem-solving, empowering educators to generate actionable solutions and build stronger partnerships with families.

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Family Listening Guide

This practical guide helps schools and districts plan effective family listening tours—offering tips, sample questions, and tools to elevate family voices and strengthen partnerships.

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Having Challenging Conversations with Families

This guide offers strategies for addressing sensitive topics with families respectfully and effectively. It emphasizes active listening, validating emotions, and using specific, evidence-based communication. By focusing on solutions and maintaining trust, educators can foster productive family-school partnerships.

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Positive Communication: Reaching Out to Families

This resource highlights the importance of maintaining a 5:1 ratio of positive to negative interactions to strengthen family-school partnerships. It provides sentence starters for sharing good news, celebrating student successes, and acknowledging family support, fostering trust and collaboration.

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Sentence Starters To Address Challenges with Families

This guide provides sentence starters and templates to help educators navigate sensitive conversations with families—fostering empathy, trust, and collaboration when addressing student challenges.

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Supporting Student Success Family Conference Guide

This guide provides a step-by-step approach to planning effective family conferences that build trust and foster collaboration. It emphasizes co-creating agendas, valuing family input, using clear communication, and sustaining partnerships beyond the conference to support students’ growth and success.

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Past Webinars

Missed a live session? Our Past Webinars for Educators are available for you to revisit valuable content covering topics like family engagement, building trust, and fostering effective collaboration. These recordings offer strategies and insights to help you strengthen your connection with families and drive student success.

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