1. Designing a High-Impact Family Engagement Event
Linked to Learning:
Designing a High-Impact Family Engagement Event
2016 ESEA Directors Institute
August 2016

2. Brinn Obermiller Family Engagement and School Improvement Coordinator Consolidated Planning and Monitoring (615)

3. Session Objectives
Participants will learn more about each of the process conditions necessary for a successful family engagement event.
Participants will observe interactive strategies that can strengthen their own family engagement events.
Participants will understand how to embed the process conditions into their own literacy events.

4. Why is family engagement important?
40 years of research show that when families are involved, students have:
Higher grades, test scores, and graduation rates
Better school attendance
Increased motivation
Better self-esteem
Lower rates of behavior issues
Family participation in education
is twice as predictive of students’
academic success as family
socioeconomic status.

5. Impact of Common Family Engagement Activities
Lower impact Higher impact
Holiday celebrations
Weekly data-sharing folders
Parent training academies & events
Potlucks
Goal-setting talks
Back to school night
Performances
Regular & personalized communication
Family support services
Home visits
Parent help with
administrative tasks
Modeling of learning support strategies
Multicultural showcases
Fundraisers
Positive phone calls home
Generic school newsletters
Traditional parent-teacher conferences
Parent help on learning projects
Parent resource room
Academic Parent Teacher Teams
Interactive homework
Robo calls
Classroom observations

6. Dual Capacity-Building Framework
5/2/2018
Dual Capacity-Building Framework
Developed using research on effective home-school partnership strategies, adult learning and motivation, and leadership development.
Framework serves as a compass; a direction for the development of effective high-impact strategies and initiatives.
The framework was released last year and is the culmination of over 50 years of research. And the researchers looked at a few different fields of study, including research on effective home-school partnerships, adult learning and motivation, and leadership development. So they really took a lot of things into consideration when developing the framework.
So rather than being seen as a roadmap, the framework really serves as more of a compass, a direction or guide for you as you begin to pan you FE programming. The framework does not give you a plan-it doesn’t say do a, b, and c and then you're done, but rather it provides the fundamental pieces or components that should be embedded within your family engagement programming. Every district and school is different and has a unique set of needs so this is not a one size fits all solution to family engagement-you have to design your programming to fit your particular context.
Mapp, Karen L., and Kuttner, Paul J. (2013). Partners in Education: A Dual Capacity-Building Framework for Family–School Partnerships. SEDL

7. Process Conditions
Mapp, Karen L., and Kuttner, Paul J. (2013). Partners in Education: A Dual Capacity-Building Framework for Family–School Partnerships. SEDL

8. Discussion Discuss with the person next to you:
What did you hear Dr. Mapp say about each of the process conditions?
Record important ideas on your
Process Conditions worksheet.
3 minutes
End

9. Academic Parent Teacher Teams
As you watch the video, look for evidence of the five process conditions.
Source:

10. Debrief Do your family engagement events look like this?
Which process conditions have you successfully implemented in your family engagement events?
Which process conditions are the most challenging for your school(s)?

11. Activity
On a piece of chart paper, design a family engagement event that incorporates all five process conditions.
Events should always be Linked to Learning:
Think about important skills and/or standards in your grade span.
In addition to making it Linked to Learning, what will you do to make you event:
Relational?
Developmental?
Collaborative?
Interactive?

12. Group Share
Take one minute to share the activity you created with the group.

13. Resources
Beyond the Bakesale: The Essential Guide to family School Partnerships by Anne T. Henderson, Karen Mapp, Vivian Johnson, and Don Davies
Flamboyan Foundation:
Partners in Education, A Dual Capacity Building Framework for
Family-School Partnerships:
Video Series: Navigating The Dual Capacity-Building Framework for
Family-School Partnerships:

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