Planning for Family Engagement in the Charter School Life Cycle: A Toolkit for School Leaders
Date of the event: May 19, 2021
Guests: Carter Clawson, Tyrone Elliot, John Taylor, and Sally Wade
Description - The National Charter School Resource Center released a free toolkit funded by the US Department of Education: Planning for Family Engagement in the Charter School Life Cycle: A Toolkit for School Leaders. While the resource is written with charter school leaders as the intended audience, most of its contents would be useful for any school […]
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Family-School Partnerships & Financial Literacy
Date of the event: May 26, 2021
Guests: Leslie Jones and Evelyn Tolliver
Description - The past year has challenged the families we work with in countless ways, especially financially. According to a September NPR poll, “nearly half of American households faced lost jobs or pay cuts during the pandemic,” and “over half, or 54%, of those with household incomes below $100,000 reported serious financial problems.” But even in “normal” […]
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Home-School-Community Relationships Matter: The Educator’s Guide to Family Leadership
Date of the event: July 27, 2021
Guests: Bonita Allen, Sadia Batool, Young-chan Han, Dr. Jennifer Love, Barbara Scherr
Description - This webinar was an exclusive pre-release review of the forthcoming Educator’s Guide to Family Leadership developed by CAFE. The guide explored how to build parent/family leaders in the school community.
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Parents 2021: Going Beyond the Headlines, Part 1
Date of the event: February 23, 2022
Guests: Windy Lopez - Aflitto, Dr. Eyal Bergman, and Bibb Hubbard
Description - At a time when headlines often pit parents and educators against each other, Learning Heroes’ new research: Parents 2021: Going Beyond the Headlines, tells a more nuanced and hopeful story of how increased engagement and strong agreement demonstrate a desire for more robust family-school partnerships. In this webinar, we took a deep dive into Learning […]
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Post-Pandemic Preparation: Reimagining Middle School Partnerships
Date of the event: August 04, 2021
Guests: Dr. LaTasha Adams
Description - In this first webinar of the Middle School Family, School and Community Engagement Series, Dr. LaTasha Adams, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education and Coordinator of Middle-Level Education Programs at Clayton State University, discussed how partnerships can be formed with middle schools and other stakeholders, including families, community partners, and businesses. Attendees explored opportunities for reimagining […]
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Reframing Adolescence & Middle School Family Engagement
Date of the event: August 18, 2021
Guests: Hadley Bachman and Marisa Gerstein Pineau, PHD
Description - Adolescence is a period of enormous opportunity and presents a critical window in which to influence long-term health, wellbeing, and educational and occupational achievement. Yet the public narrative around adolescence and the middle school years in our culture is often negative and leads to misperceptions that can create obstacles to productive policies and practices – […]
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Transforming Education Systems Through Family-School Collaboration
Date of the event: November 17, 2021
Guests: Dorie Taylor and Rebecca Winthrop
Description - The Center for Universal Education (CUE) at Brookings Institute shared their newly released playbook on family-school engagement, featuring key findings from a global survey of 25,000 parents and 6,000 teachers and a review of more than 500 effective family engagement strategies around the world. Dorie Taylor from Remake Learning Days, also shared her perspective from […]
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Families Leading the Way
Date of the event: January 26, 2022
Guests: Sadia Batool, Sarah Holland, Matthew Hubbard, Randall MacGill, and Maria Searcy
Description - CAFE, the Family Involvement Conference (FIC), and Sarah Holland, from the Pennsylvania State Department of Education, facilitated a lively panel conversation with family leaders from Maryland and Pennsylvania. Families discussed how their children’s early learning programs, schools, and community partners have supported them on their journey to being strong advocates for their own children, as […]
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Exploring Family-School-Library Partnerships: A Librarian’s Guide to Engaging Families in Learning
Date of the event: December 01, 2021
Guests: Margaret Caspe, Tamela Chambers, M. Ellen Lopez, Bharat Mehra, Dorothy Stolz, and KC Williams
Description - Libraries are free and trusted institutions in nearly every community that offer a wide range of learning resources for the entire family from books and digital media to STEM workshops, homework clubs, reading circles, and adult learning classes. Family, school, and community engagement is an ongoing partnership among everyone in a child’s life, including caregivers, […]
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Reimagining the Role of Families in Educational Justice
Date of the event: September 29, 2021
Guests: Dr. Ann Ishimaru and Sherri Wilson
Description - We are in the wake of multiple pandemics – from covid-19 to racism to climate injustices. Throughout the last two years, young people have continued to learn within the context of their families and communities — what have educational systems learned and how might they need to change their approach to families to address the […]
