A simple way to ensure that school staff collect vital information on family/student well-being during check-ins and identify those who need additional support (AMLE’s COVID-19 Resource Center).
Tools for Educators to Listen to and Learn from Families During COVID-19 School Closures
A guide for family engagement that offers sample scripts and surveys for outreach in both Spanish and English. Other strategies for engagement are offered.
Family Engagement Resources in Spanish
Research-backed and culturally relevant materials including a Webinar: Distance Learning with Common Sense: Equitable Distance Learning for English Learners
Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Family Engagement in the Time of COVID-19 and Remote Learning, and Always
Provides guidance for districts, schools, and educators who want to deepen family engagement and continue to foster learning during the pandemic, and for parent and community groups advocating for stronger and more community-connected practices in their schools.
Learning Hero Roadmap
A bilingual “roadmap” parents can use to help keep their children on track with math, reading, life skills, and more while school is closed.
Congrove Distance Learning Model
A distance learning plan that contains clear, concise language on: a distance-learning theory of action (page 2); Sample schedules (pages 3 and 5); Weekly individual learning plans and after-school support (page 4); Structures and operations for non-instructional staff (pages 6); Instructional design and delivery (pages 7-10); Learning community for school and family (pages 11-12); Systems …
Family and Community Engagement Planning Tool
Contains a series of questions that school systems can ask themselves to determine how to make the most of two other recent resources: 1.TNTP’s Five Essentials for Engaging Families and Community Partners in Reopening EffortsTNTP’s Five Essentials for Engaging Families and Community Partners in Reopening EffortsTNTP’s Five Essentials for Engaging Families and Community Partners in …
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Virtual Coffee Hour
A toolkit for educators that helps them share resources about Google’s technology with families and guardians.
Tech Toolkit for Families and Guardians
A toolkit for educators that helps them share resources about Google’s technology with families and guardians.
Family Guides: Supporting Learning in the 2020-21 School Year
Seek Common Ground and the experts at Student Achievement Partners have created Family Guides to help parents, grandparents, caregivers, friends— anyone helping a child to learn in the 2020-21 school year— understand more about what children should know and be able to do by the end of each grade in literacy and math. Other academic …
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