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Family Engagement
Using Family Engagement to Solve Real Problems in K-12 Schools
with Dr. Steve Constantino
Helping school leaders engage every family through five simple, research-backed principles.
Explore this expert-led learning experience with Dr. Steve Constantino and tell RocketPD you would like to hear when a future offering is announced.
About this cohort
Deploy Five Simple Principles to fight chronic absenteeism, engage hard-to-reach families, and improve student outcomes.
This learning experience is being considered for a future RocketPD offering. The core content, practical outcomes, and expert guidance are available to explore now.
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Superintendents and Assistant Superintendents
Lead family engagement work connected to strategic priorities and student outcomes.
Program Directors
Apply family engagement principles to migrant, immigrant, supplemental, and student support programs.
Family Support Specialists
Strengthen trust and build practical strategies for engaging hard-to-reach families.
Site and District Administrators
Use family engagement to solve urgent attendance, culture, and student support challenges.
What you can learn
Practical outcomes to explore.
Apply the Five Simple Principles
Use the framework to address student outcomes, chronic absenteeism, disengaged families, MTSS supports, and hard-to-reach students.
Build authentic trust
Develop practical examples and a proven framework for engaging families in the academic lives of their children.
Change organizational culture
Use family engagement as a practical lever to improve culture and strengthen community trust.
Use action research cycles
Apply a systematic, data-driven process for problem identification, intervention selection, reflection, and improvement.
Planned Learning Experience
Explore the learning progression.
Topics and sequence may be refined before a future offering is announced.-
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How to Drive Student Success and Improve Your Culture with a Focus on Family Engagement
Explore the link between culture and student success, model elements of a positive family engagement culture, compare positive examples to your own culture, and apply family engagement principles.
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Family Engagement as a Tool for Cultural Proficiency
Recognize implicit bias, identify organizational structures that contribute to bias, use the cultural proficiency continuum, and promote engagement across the community.
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Engagement for All: A Multi-Tiered Approach to Student Success
Identify barriers to engaging hard-to-reach families, model interventions families can use at home, and build strategies to support students with disabilities and other barriers.
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Using Family Engagement to Tackle Chronic Absenteeism
Explore causes of chronic absenteeism, model family engagement strategies that drive higher attendance, and clarify teacher and staff roles in listening to and working with families.
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Small Wins Make for Big Change
Conduct a self-assessment using the Five Simple Principles rubric, implement a systematic action-research process, and engage in cyclical problem-solving and improvement.
Your Instructor
Dr. Steve Constantino
Family engagement is a priority in almost every K-12 school district strategic plan. But there's a difference between paying lip service to family engagement and putting it into practice. Dr. Steve Constantino is the best-selling author of Engage Every Family and one of the nation's leading voices on family engagement research in K-12 schools.
Family Engagement
School Culture
Instructional Leadership
MTSS
What to expect
A practical, expert-led learning experience
Expert-led exploration of the cohort topic
Practical strategies connected to the published curriculum
Opportunities to learn alongside education peers
Updates if a future offering is announced
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What educators say about learning with Dr. Steve Constantino.
Attending the Master Class was a true privilege. Applying the learning and receiving immediate feedback allows me to implement the strategies immediately in my work setting!
Maria Ovalle-Lopez Director of Family Engagement, Klein ISD (TX)Steve and Peggie are passionate, captivating, and motivating speakers. They offer practical and common-sense advice, based on years of research and practice experience, about how to create and sustain effective family-school partnerships.
Karen L. Mapp, Ed.D. Senior Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of EducationIf anyone would like to add to their personal growth or their contribution to the community, I would highly recommend Drs. Steve and Peggie Constantino's Master Classes and resources.
Nancy Gauthier Family and Community Engagement Specialist, Aldine ISD (TX)FAQ
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