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…
- Understand the most essential research on family engagement in schools.
- Apply the best-practices and leadership moves that improve family engagement strategies.
- 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.)