Engaged Families and Communities
Students benefit from the creation and nurturing of collaborative family, community, and school partnerships that attend to the whole child, contribute to family well-being, and foster a supportive, consistent learning environment at home and in school.
The actions below are positive steps schools can take:
- Engage families as experts and identify their needs and goals.
- Build family well-being by working with students and their families together.
- Support the family’s role in literacy development and connect families to scientifically based, evidence-based literacy approaches.
- Ensure two-way communication for a shared vision of goals and literacy.
- Focus on addressing the needs of the whole family unit and understanding their multiple dimensions.
- Foster meaningful relationships and build formal and informal networks of support.
- Invest in resources to support family engagement and whole family well-being.
- Coordinate literacy instruction and ensure families receive regular updates of student literacy progress.
