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Transforming Family Engagement: Challenges, Solutions, and Professional Development

Learn from Byron Garrett, Chair of National Family Engagement Alliance, about the evolving family dynamic and effective strategies to engage families in education. Explore challenges, solutions, and the crucial role of professional development in fostering strong family-school partnerships. Discover practical tips for making families feel welcome, linking engagement to learning, building literacy partnerships, and monitoring engagement effectiveness. Join the discussion to enhance your family engagement efforts today!

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Transforming Family Engagement: Challenges, Solutions, and Professional Development

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  1. Improving Your Family & Community Engagement Efforts with Professional Development

  2. Agenda • Engaging Today’s Families -Byron Garrett Shares • Successes, Challenges, and Gaps – Share Your Experience • Importance of Professional Development • 4 Identified Challenges and… Solutions • Now What? Next Steps

  3. Today’s Families • “ The family dynamic has really changed and evolved over time. I call it a revolution- the revolution of family engagement. “ • Byron Garrett • Chair of the National Family Engagement Alliance

  4. Why is it so important to engage families? • What are the challenges of engaging families? • How do we meet the needs of today’s families? • How do we get parents and family members engaged in the educational process of young people? • How do we provide the right resources to families?

  5. Notes From the FieldByron Garrett shareswhat is happening across the country • What is happening? • What is working? • What isn’t working?

  6. Group Discussion • What is working for you? • What is challenging? • Where are there gaps?

  7. How Does Professional Development Play a Part in Family Engagement? • Improve Learning for Your Team and Your Students • Boost Confidence of Staff And Students • Ensure Consistency of Messages

  8. Identified Challenges • Let’s explore some top challenges... • Welcoming • Link to Learning • Literacy • Effectiveness

  9. Making Families Feel Welcome Welcoming Walk-Through • Is there space for parents to visit and gather? • Do parents know how to navigate the building? • Is the space functional for the needs of parents? Building Trust • How do teachers and school leaders ensure that the answer to each of the above questions is YESand communicate that to parents?

  10. Linking Engagement to Learning • Don’t do more - do better. • What do you already do? • How can you repurpose those events, and link them to classroom learning? • How do you support your teachers to make the connection?

  11. Building Family Partnerships That Instill the Love of Reading • Do you host any literacy events for families? • How do you link those events to student learning? • How do you engage your teachers? • How do you encourage the literacy efforts to take root • at home?

  12. Monitoring & Evaluating the Effectiveness of Family & Community Engagement • But how do you know if it’s working? • The value of surveys… if done correctly. • Using what you learn… • Educating your staff on data • Survey Monkey Tool (HFRP)

  13. Next Steps • Where are you with… • Buy-in • Funding • Time management • Linking to improvement/data • Community connections • Outcomes and sustainability

  14. Questions?

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