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Virtual Family Meetups
Schools can schedule online meetups for families to informally chat and connect with each other to build community and provide support.
Family Facebook Groups
Families of students in virtual schools can connect with each other through Facebook groups and build an online community.
Engaging Spanish-Speaking Families to Strengthen Edtech Implementation
Gill-Montague Regional School District’s Director of Technology partnered with a Spanish interpreter and community liaison to support Spanish-speaking families. The efforts of the liaison facilitated stronger engagement with edtech among...
Family Technology Access Survey
Hilltown Cooperative Charter Public School created a survey using Google Forms to learn more about how families were receiving information about the school’s events, announcements, and opportunities to be involved. The survey included demographic...
Gathering Family Feedback on Edtech Usage
Edtech tools can serve as a channel to involve families in their students’ lives, strengthen the home-school connection, and provide access to teachers for better communication. School leaders should seek to gather family feedback to ensure all...
Accessing Student Data as a Family or Community Member for Advocacy
The ability to access and utilize data for families and community members is critical for advocating for students. While, accessing data as a family or community member may seem overwhelming or complex, there are public sources that are openly...
Artifact: Fenway High School’s Partnerships
Fenway Partnerships aims to provide students with well-rounded education that goes beyond textbooks. Their impressive network of nearly 40 partners strengthens student success from entry to graduation and beyond, with a focus on college and career...
Lovett’s Approach to Communications
Lovett views communications as a critical part of their work, and they changed their approach as they started to shift to digital learning.
YouthTruth Report: Learning From Student Voice: Are Students Engaged?
YouthTruth runs student experience surveys to empower educators and school leaders to design schools around student voice.
Creating Additional, Multilingual Supports for Families
Meriden Public Schools explains the systems they put in place with the shift to remote learning to support multilingual parent/guardian communication.
ParentSquare Rollout at Meriden Public Schools
Meriden Public Schools’ training schedule and sample communications plan for their two-way communication tool rollout of ParentSquare.