Cultivate Effective Home-School Partnerships to Increase Student Achievement
Children are awake for about 6,000 hours a year, and only about 1,000 of those hours are spent in school. If we are to tackle the achievement gap and the inequities that contribute to it, we must pay attention not only to schools, but also to the places where children spend [those other] 5,000 hours. —H. Weiss, M. Elena Lopez, and Margaret Caspe. 2018. Joining Together to Create a Bold Vision for Next Generation Family Engagement. Boston: Global Family Research Project.
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Family and Community Engagement Learning doesn’t stop at the end of the school day. Research shows that the number of books at home and the time that parents spend reading with their children are just as important as the quality of education that students receive in school. That’s why we’ve assembled a team of experts who lead workshops, assessments, and other initiatives that will help you unite your families and community to create a culture where all students can reach their full potential.
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Strategic Planning & Assessment
Family and Community Engagement Strategic Planning
Students thrive when their families are active partners in their education, but too many educators lack the resources to equip parents with the necessary skills and strategies to fulfill this role. Our family engagement practitioners work side by side with school and district leadership teams to customize family engagement goals and action steps that welcome families into your learning community. Leadership teams can choose to focus on: • Articulating a family engagement mission and shared beliefs • Aligning organizational systems and staff to family engagement initiatives • Developing and refining a strategic family engagement plan • Coordinating with other district staff and departments that have family engagement as part of their mandate (Title I, Title IV, Early Childhood, etc.) • Creating grade-level strategies for effectively engaging families to support learning • Developing systems for measuring the impact of your family engagement • Supporting family engagement staff and family engagement action teams • Refining communication tools (written and virtual) • Creating tools and templates to assist with assessment and continuous improvement • Designing and redesigning school spaces to optimize home-school partnerships
Recommended for: School and district leadership teams
Time: Full day Item #: 677454
Everyone Wins! by Dr. Karen L. Mapp Recommended Reading
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Family Engagement Assessment
The Family Engagement Assessment (FEA) is a process that measures a school’s capacity for developing effective home-school partnerships and recommends solutions for enriching and prioritizing family engagement practices. A family engagement specialist will conduct an on-site or virtual visit, technology review, document review, and shopper phone call. In addition, stakeholder surveys are distributed to families, teaching staff, and administration via an online survey platform. The FEA process integrates this data to produce a comprehensive written report that includes: • A thorough assessment of family engagement practices including strengths and opportunities for growth • Visual images of the physical environment, website, social media, and documents that illustrate barriers to engagement as well as positive examples of engagement efforts that should be promoted or built upon • Quantitative data that schools can use to measure improvement over time • Recommendations for growth in each of the four goal areas (Welcoming, Communication, Information, and Engagement) By exploring key data and existing activities and positions in collaboration with our specialists, school leaders can design a plan to strengthen and coordinate family and community engagement initiatives.
Recommended for: Early childhood centers
and elementary, middle, and high schools Item #s: 853882 (for the first school) 853883 (for each additional school)
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Professional Learning Courses
Foundations of Family Engagement
This session will introduce you to research from the past 20 years as well as the U.S. Department of Education’s Dual Capacity-Building Framework for Effective Family- School Partnerships, which explores the family engagement efforts that contribute to student learning. We’ll break down the conditions that must be present in your school to provide a solid foundation for providing effective family outreach. Learning outcomes: • Advocate for the impact of family engagement on student learning • Identify the five process conditions that must be addressed in every family engagement activity • Build your staff’s ability to implement effective family engagement efforts
Recommended for: PreK–12 administrators, teachers, and parent coordinators Time: Full day Item #: 809013 Participants: Up to 30
Reaching All Families
Promoting educational equity necessitates family engagement. When families are authentically engaged, listened to as active partners, and viewed as co-teachers, students achieve at higher levels. Training initiatives that build families’ capacity to support student achievement are strong levers for addressing racial and economic disparities. Though engaging families has always been critical, COVID-19 reminds us of the central role that families play in teaching and learning and the need for educators to co-construct learning with families. Learning outcomes: • Reflect on what has or hasn’t been done to engage families and imagine what it would take for home-school partnerships to flourish • Address the status quo, challenge traditional biases, and address innate power dynamics • Understand how to value and honor family voice, and identify ways to integrate engaging families as an instructional strategy • Move beyond implementing “one-size-fits-all” family engagement to executing intentional practices that individualize and recognize each family’s unique strengths
Recommended for: PreK–12 district leaders, principals, teachers, and support staff Time: Full day Item #: 731392 Participants: Up to 30
Life, Literacy, and the Pursuit of Happiness by Dr. Don Vu Recommended Reading
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Increasing Student Attendance through Effective Home-School Partnership Practices
Creating a culture of attendance begins by engaging students and families positively, establishing trust, and creating a sense of belonging. This session focuses on addressing chronic absenteeism through problem-solving, using data to better understand attendance barriers that families face, implementing a tiered system of family support, and exploring proven strategies for helping students to attend school regularly. Learning outcomes: • Learn how to address chronic absenteeism through a problem-solving approach • Use data to better understand families’ attendance barriers • Design a tiered system of family support
Recommended for: PreK–12 district leaders, principals, teachers, parent coordinators, and family engagement staff Time: Full day Item #: 767594 Participants: Up to 30
Effective Practices to Welcome All Families
Families say that feeling welcome and being treated with respect by school staff is the key to feeling connected to the school. In this session we’ll explore how to welcome families into your school and have dialogue that empowers them to become active participants in their children’s education. Learning outcomes: • Assess your current welcoming practices • Understand why families can feel estranged from the learning process • Recognize the difference between “doing to” and “doing with” • Implement strategies that enhance two-way communication • Design initiatives that move from compliance engagement to authentic
Recommended for: PreK–12 district leaders, principals, teachers, and support staff Time: Full day Item #: 809019 Participants: Up to 30
relationships with families • Engage in active listening
Recommended Reading Rooted in Strength by Dr. Cecilia M. Espinosa and Dr. Laura Ascenzi-Moreno
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Professional Learning Courses (continued)
Implementing Capacity-Building Literacy Events
Harvard professor Dr. Karen L. Mapp has written that “Parent participation is the leading predictor of students’ academic success, regardless of family, race, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, or cultural background.” Yet many schools struggle to build and sustain effective family-school partnerships. During the first half of this session, we’ll explore how to effectively partner with families to support learning. In the afternoon participants will apply new insights to transform a traditional literacy night into a capacity-building literacy event. Learning outcomes: • Identify the five process conditions that must be addressed in every family literacy event • Design a family literacy event that builds the capacity of families to support their children’s literacy at home • Understand the importance of building staff capacity to implement effective family literacy efforts
Recommended for: PreK–5 directors of instruction, literacy consultants, administrators, and teachers Time: Full day Item #: 809017 Participants: Up to 30
Parent coordinators, family coaches, and engagement staff are an important resource for connecting families to the school. However, the role of the family engagement staff is often undefined and underutilized. This two-day series will help you transition them from a social service support role and administrative accessory to confident family coaches focused on elevating student achievement. Learning outcomes: • Understand the research on family engagement, including a deep dive into the Dual-Capacity Framework • Engage in activities to better understand the role of the parent coordinator • Learn tools to assess your current practices and develop a yearlong action plan aligned to student learning • Use communication templates to keep leadership, school staff, and families updated on the work of family engagement staff Recommended for: PreK–12 parent coordinators, family coaches, family engagement staff, and administrators Time: Two full days Item #: 853881 Participants: Up to 30 Leading Family Engagement Initiatives for Parent Coordinators and Family Liaisons
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Family Engagement Virtual Check-In
Keep your family engagement professional learning on track by scheduling a virtual check-in with one of our family engagement specialists. These 90-minute sessions are designed to help school and district teams, leaders, and educators execute their family engagement strategies. Tell us your implementation goals and we can develop a virtual session that moves the work from plan to practice. Learning outcomes: • Monitor family engagement initiatives • Ensure ongoing progress • Assess current status and determine next steps
Recommended for: PreK–12 parent coordinators, family engagement staff, teachers, and leaders Time: 90 minutes Item #: 857702 Participants: Up to 30 per session
The “Why Not?” Challenge by Dr. Jacqueline L. Sanderlin Recommended Reading
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Dr. Karen L. Mapp’s Family Engagement Workshop Series
Scholastic has partnered with Dr. Karen L. Mapp of the Harvard Graduate School of Education to create a comprehensive workshop series that helps educators strengthen home-school relationships. Inspire your teams to engage families in a community that celebrates and empowers student achievement! Session 1: Reframing Family Engagement This session provides foundational family engagement training to district and school teams. We’ll introduce you to the research and practices that lead to effective family engagement. Learning outcomes: • Understand the link between family and community engagement and student achievement • Involve families as trusted partners who offer insights into their children’s needs • Link family engagement to student learning and school improvement Session 2: Redesigning Family Engagement Events This session will introduce you to the Dual-Capacity Framework through a series of expert-guided interactive exercises. We’ll explore how to integrate the framework’s five process conditions and effective practices into any family engagement event. Learning outcomes: • Understand the purpose and components of the Dual-Capacity Framework • Apply the Dual-Capacity Framework to design and implement family engagement strategies • Repurpose a family engagement event to incorporate best practices Session 3: Engaging Families in Learning throughout the Year This session will help your school teams design and implement a yearlong plan for family engagement by evaluating your recent outreach initiatives and determining the next steps that will best serve your students. Learning outcomes: • Integrate family engagement activities with student learning goals • Develop a family engagement plan • Evaluate your family engagement efforts
Recommended for: School-based action teams consisting of school staff, family/ community members, district leaders, and other educational partners who are available for all three full-day training sessions Time: Three full days of training Item #: 813681 Participants: Up to 30
Powerful Partnerships by Dr. Karen L. Mapp, Ilene Carver, and Jessica Lander Recommended Reading
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What we need is a shared responsibility paradigm designed to build capacity among parents and practitioners, so both sides will gain from the relationship.
—Dr. Karen L. Mapp, Senior Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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Virtual Support All sessions are 60–90 minutes in duration.
Unpacking the Components of the Dual Capacity-Building Framework Each virtual series explores the essential practices of the Dual Capacity-Building Framework. Sessions can be purchased individually or as a package and geared to all PreK–12 educators, administrators, and support staff.
Process Conditions Virtual Series
Item #: 716598
This four-part family engagement series explores the essential practices of the Dual Capacity-Building Framework, Version 2. Participants will explore strategies for building trusting relationships with families that lead to increased academic success.
4 C’s Virtual Series
Item #: 716603
During this four-part series, participants will explore the characteristics that school staff and families need in order to form partnerships that support students’ educational and developmental growth—capabilities, connections, cognitions, and confidence.
Organizational Conditions Virtual Series
Item #: 719544
Though more attention in the Dual Capacity–Building Framework is given to its process conditions, the organizational conditions are critical to scaling home-school partnership efforts. During this webinar series leaders will identify, reflect, and assess their practice in three areas: systemic, integrated, and sustained implementation.
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There is no doubt that when family engagement is developed in true partnership, it has the ability to positively impact students’ academic, social and emotional growth, even within distressed communities.
—Kelli Cedo, Virginia Beach Public Schools
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