Magnolia High School: Growing Their Community’s Future
Magnolia High School's agriscience community center was highlighted as a model community school that's helping its community solve its food desert pro…
Element: Family and Community Partnerships
The school has implemented robust systems and processes to cultivate family and parent partnerships.
Resources are allocated to prioritize family and community engagement, supporting the vision for readiness.
The school has established effective systems to foster partnerships with community-based organizations, ensuring each and every student attains outcomes aligned with the shared vision for readiness.
Existing partnerships are supported to recognize the value of family, parent, and community-based collaborations, serving all students effectively.
Teaching staff leverage relationships with families, parents, and community-based partnerships and incorporate them into their instructional practice.
Strategies for Equitable Family Engagement: Engaging Outside of the School Building
To build trust and relationships with families, it can be helpful for school staff to engage with families in spaces or at events in which families fe…
Strategies for Equitable Family Engagement: Meaningfully Involving and Engaging Families and Trusted Community Advocates
Trusted community advocates can help build connections between community members and school staff, as well as build knowledge around educational activ…
Strategies for Equitable Family Engagement: Building Relationships Between Staff and Families
Building relationships between schools and families can help establish the trust and positive rapport needed to support effective and equitable engage…
Strategies for Equitable Family Engagement: Making Equitable Family Engagement “Business as Usual”
Ensuring that practices related to promoting or maintaining equitable family engagement become standard practice among school staff can require intent…
Strategies for Equitable Family Engagement: Making a Commitment to Equitable Family Engagement
By making a clear and transparent commitment to equitable family engagement in both public communications and leadership activities, school and distri…
Family And Community Engagement (FACE): Checklist to Making Your Family-Community Partnership Work
Successful family engagement requires a multi-faceted approach. This customizable checklist can help you keep track of new and continuing family engag…
Supporting Family Engagement: Tools & Resources to Keep Families Connected
Developing a plan for family engagement may be the first step, but sooner rather than later, you also need to ensure that there are family-friendly to…
Strategies for Supporting Family Engagement in Schools: Reflect and Plan for Meaningful Engagement
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to family engagement. However, it’s crucial to ensure families have a voice in their child’s educational ex…
Family And Community Engagement (FACE): How To Get Started with Community School Development
So you're familiar with community schools. You're interested. But getting started can feel like the hardest part. While your own school/district's pat…