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MTSS | Family Engagement & Community Partnerships

See how the ESC can support your family engagement and community partnership needs.

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Partnering with families is instrumental for student success. Families have the power to partner with schools to launch student academic, behavior, and attendance successes. Whether through strengthened relationships, improved communication on PBIS, or integrating families throughout your MTSS framework, contact Andrea Summers, Family & Community Partnership Liaison, for an exploratory conversation about your family engagement needs and interests. Andrea can tailor fit family engagement resources, training, and coaching to best fit your school or district goals.

For more information, please contact [email protected].

Building School-Based Teams

Explore Joyce Epstein's five framework components of family engagement and begin work toward establishing an inclusive team to drive your school or district efforts. Through assessment of current practices, the team is primed to determine focus areas and goals that serve to grow family engagement practices.

Effective Partnerships

Gain support refining best practices in partnerships as well as identifying local community partners to further support of student development.

Family Engagement

Build a broad overview of the benefits of family engagement and explore strategies to increase and improve learning at home, decision making, parenting, volunteering, communicating, and collaborating efforts in partnership with families.

Learning At-Home Strategies

Learn strategies for building relationships with families while intentionally embedding learning at-home strategies, extending learning at home.

Leveraging Adult Actions

Build adult advocacy skills using SEL competency frameworks. This session is geared toward education advocates, social workers, families and anyone working to support student success outside of the classroom.

MTSS & Family Engagement

Explore family engagement strategies at each tier of the MTSS framework. Begin a process for reflecting and assessing current practices and identify opportunities to grow your family engagement efforts.

Utilizing SEL

Explore ways to further students' SEL development by bridging SEL concepts and activities into the home.

Whole Child Initiatives

Reflect on and assess how your current efforts align within a whole child framework to identify strengths and opportunities to further your efforts.