Learning Goals

Participants experience an intentionally designed learning arc that enables them to accomplish three key goals and one final outcome.

Learning Arc

  • Fall

    Understanding What Works in Family Engagement

  • Winter

    Applying What Works in Your Context

  • Spring

    Redesigning Systems to Promote What Works

Participant Goals & Outcome

Three Key Goals — By the end of the Institute, participants should be able to…

  1. Understand the most essential research on family engagement in schools.
  2. Apply the best-practices and leadership moves that improve family engagement strategies.
  3. Clarify their school or district’s family engagement strengths and challenges, and develop a plan with safe-to-fail experiments in collaboration with families and staff.

The Key Outcome of the Institute — Institute participants will culminate the Institute with an equity-focused family engagement strategy for the following school year that:

  • Is integrated into existing priorities and plans (e.g. instructional goals, school climate strategies, etc.)
  • Involves new and/or re-purposed investments (e.g. increased staff time to partner with families, PD funding, etc.)
  • Applies existing management tools (e.g. hiring practices, policies, etc.)