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More Than Homework: Six Ways Families Help Kids Learn

A customizable presentation that helps families understand the many ways they support their child’s learning, with practical examples and discussion prompts based on the Six Roles framework.

The Why of Family Engagement

A ready-to-use slide deck that introduces the research behind family engagement and helps educators build stronger family-school partnerships through shared learning and discussion.

Academic Partnership in the Secondary Grades

A simple, classroom-ready strategy that helps middle and high school educators strengthen academic partnerships with families. The resource includes sample emails, reflection prompts, and implementation tips that keep students, families, and teachers connected around learning and well-being.

Building Trusting Relationships with Families (Beginning-of-the-Year)

Strategies and conversation questions to learn about families’ hopes and goals at the start of the school year and build trusting partnerships grounded in care, respect, and collaboration.

Building Trusting Relationships with Families (Mid-Year)

Midyear strategies and reflective questions to check in with families, understand evolving needs, and deepen trusting partnerships that support student success.

Choose Your Own Adventure, Family Engagement Style!

Find the right family engagement resource for your needs with this interactive guide, featuring practical tools to build relationships, strengthen communication, support learning, and solve common challenges.

Communication Reflection Tool

A reflection tool to help educators evaluate outreach patterns, identify gaps, and ensure all families receive consistent, positive, and actionable information to support student success.

Empathic Listening with Families

Empathic listening strategies to help educators validate families’ emotions, build trust, and strengthen family-school partnerships.

Family Engagement Problem of Practice Protocol

A structured process for collaboratively addressing family engagement challenges, with defined roles, guided questions, and reflective problem-solving strategies.

Family Listening Guide

A practical guide to planning family listening tours, with tips, sample questions, and tools to elevate family voices and strengthen partnerships.

Having Challenging Conversations with Families

Strategies for addressing sensitive topics respectfully and effectively through active listening, validating emotions, and clear, evidence-based communication focused on solutions.

Positive Communication: Reaching Out to Families

Sentence starters for sharing good news, celebrating student successes, and acknowledging family support, with an emphasis on a 5:1 ratio of positive to negative interactions.

Sentence Starters to Address Challenges with Families

Sentence starters and templates to help educators navigate sensitive conversations with empathy, trust, and collaboration when addressing student challenges.

Supporting Student Success Family Conference Guide

A step-by-step guide to planning collaborative family conferences, co-creating agendas, valuing family input, and sustaining partnerships that support student growth.

Past Webinars

Explore webinar recordings with strategies for family engagement, building trust, and strengthening collaboration with families.

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Educator Resources

Practical tools to build stronger partnerships with families. Explore guides, presentations, and strategies to strengthen communication, build trust, and support student learning.

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