Directors Webinar. Coaching, PD & Family Engagement
This Directors Webinar featured two presentations focused on strengthening implementation and outcomes through professional learning and family engagement.
Building Partnerships and Shared Leadership
Directors Webinar. Partnering with Families (MN SPDG) & Developing Data Dashboards
This is a two-part session. First, the Minnesota SPDG team (Tom Delaney) and Dominic Good Buffalo (PACER Center) will continue our spring series focused on family engagement and SPDG–parent center partnerships. Together, they will share how they are working across state and family partner roles to strengthen collaboration, support implementation, and advance shared goals. This session will build on the March conversation by highlighting another example of how SPDGs and parent centers can work together.
Directors Webinar. Engaging Critical Perspectives (SISEP) & Partnering with Families through Complex Change (ID SPDG)
This is a two part session:
First, the Idaho SPDG and their parent partner, Idaho Parents Unlimited, will share how they are working together to support families and strengthen implementation. This presentation kicks off our spring series highlighting SPDG–family partner collaborations, with Idaho modeling how a state and its PTI co-plan, co-implement, and co-communicate their work.
Next, Rebekah Hornak, SISEP center, will present an interactive session on Unlocking Innovation & Collaboration: The Power of Engaging Critical Perspectives.
Working Systemically in Action: Engaging Family & Community
SEDL’s Working Systemically approach is a process for school improvement—and, ultimately, increased student achievement—that focuses on key components and competencies at all levels of the local educational system.
OSEP-funded Parent Centers Serving Families of Children with Disabilities
The Center for Parent Information and Resources maintains a list of the OSEP-funded Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resources Centers serving families of children with disabilities in every state and U.S. territory.
Creating Collaborative Action Teams: Working Together for Student Success
The Collaborative Action Team process is a set of concepts, activities, and resources that individuals, school districts and other organizations can use to develop a partnership between home, school, community, and students at the local level. These teams identify pressing issues in the school community and take action to address those issues with the purpose of promoting student success.
Joining Together to Create a Bold Vision for Next Generation Family Engagement; Engaging Families to Transform Education
Weiss, H. B., Lopez, M. E., & Caspe, M. (2018). Joining Together to Create a Bold Vision for Next Generation Family Engagement: Engaging Families to Transform Education. Global Family Research Project.
Idaho State Department of Education and the Idaho Commission for Libraries
The Idaho State Department of Education and the Idaho Commission for Libraries shared their partnership story, including sharing about an exciting training they developed for school and public library staff.
Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools
Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools is a strategy to promote social inclusion, providing students, educators and families with the tools, skills and dispositions to create schools of acceptance and positive school climate. Evidence and evaluation shows that SOUCS is a contributing factor to student success, and positive academic and social emotional outcomes. This session will explore how the impact can extend to family wellbeing.
The Role of Families in a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS)
A Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) offers an alternative approach to family engagement. A tiered approach to family engagement helps teachers and administrators adapt to the contexts, needs, and preferences of every family in the school so that ALL families are engaged in their children’s education. In this session, Georgia’s MTSS Communications and Family Engagement Specialist Carole Carr discusses the importance of helping families understand their role within the framework and how uplifting student voices strengthens engagement and improves student success.