Toolkit of Resources for Engaging Families and Community as Partners in Education
Overview
Integrating research, promising practices, and useful tools, this toolkit helps educators build family and community engagement through cross-cultural communication.
- The toolkit can be flexibly used to meet the needs of both educators and families. Some educators may choose to proceed systematically, where each activity and tool is used, and others may focus on specific parts of the toolkit that are applicable to their needs. Regardless of the approach, the toolkit is a way to strengthen partnerships by prompting discussions and deepening understanding about family and community engagement.
Use It in Your Classroom
Starting at 25:51 in this webinar, learn about six principles to improve partnership programs and practices to engage families in schools.
Design It into Your Product
Learn how products such as Bloomz can support communication between teachers and families. By providing updates through notifications or emails, parents are informed, involved, and engaged in what is going on in the classroom and with their children.
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Design It into Your Product
Additional Resources
Additional examples, research, and professional development. These resources are possible representations of this strategy, not endorsements.
Factors Supported by this Strategy
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