Engaging Families for High School Success
This website includes family engagement resources for district leaders, school teams and family members. The resources are focused specifically on helping districts and schools to improve their family engagement efforts during the critical transition to high school. The goal of these efforts is to improve high school student success rates. A recorded 20 minute webinar, which you can access here, provides an overview to many of the resources on the website as it frames the issue of family engagement during the high school transition.
District Leader Resources
District leader resources include guidebooks and materials for conducting day-long workshop and shorter (90 minute) professional learning community sessions with school teams focused on planning and implementing family engagement activities. The mini-handbooks contain guidance about using the posted tools and may be most useful to consult first.
School Team Resources
School team materials include tools for planning, implementing, and evaluating their family engagement work (particularly focused on the transition from grade 8 to grade 9). The mini-handbooks contain guidance about using the posted tools and may be most useful to consult first.
Resources to Share with Families
Family resources include a Ninth Grade Family Toolkit, various communication tools, and interactive homework activities for 8th graders to complete with a family member about the transition to high school. The mini-handbooks for district leaders and school teams contain guidance about using the posted tools and may be most useful to consult first.
Resources for District Family Engagement Leaders
Resources developed for district family engagement leaders and posted here include mini-handbooks on building school leader capacity for family engagement, example slides for day-long family engagement workshops and 90 minute regional cluster meeting workshops for school teams, and associated materials for use by participants during these workshops. You can also access a 20 minute recorded webinar (mentioned above) for an overview here.
Mini-Handbooks for District Leaders
Workshop Materials
See Resources for School Teams and Resources for Families to Find the Following:
• School Team Resources include templates and tools for planning, implementing, and evaluating family engagement activities
• Family resources include a Ninth Grade Family Toolkit, various communication tools, and interactive homework activities for 8th graders to complete with a family member about the transition to high school
School Team Resources
Resources developed for school family engagement team members and posted here include mini-handbooks on engaging families during the transition to high school, example slides for use in meetings with families about the transition to high school, and other materials for use by the school family engagement teams for planning, implementing, and evaluating their work. You can also access a 20 minute recorded webinar (mentioned above) for an overview here.
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Planning Templates and Resources
Conducting a Systematic Family Engagement Review
Planning forms and calendars
Suggested Planning Calendar for Family Engagement in the Transition to HS
General HS Family Engagement Planning Calendar
Family engagement activity ideas
Resources and Tools for Implementing Family Engagement Activities
Resources and Tools for Evaluating Family Engagement Work
Background on Cycle of Inquiry Process
School Team Mini-Guidebooks
Resources to Share with Families
Family resources include a Ninth Grade Family Toolkit, various communication tools, and interactive homework activities for 8th graders and a family member about the transition to high school.
9th Grade Family Toolkit
Communication Tools
APPs for smartphone
Go to APP Store and get free download of AKI KUROSE or GARFIELD HIGH SCHOOL as an example
Example postcards
High School Success | Attendance
Example refrigerator magnets