Resources

The CFEC develops and shares resources to support families and school districts to partner effectively.

Audience: School Staff, Audience: Parent, Audience: Parent/Caregiver, Resource Type: Webinar, Topic: Communicating with Families, Age Group: Adult Learning, Age Group: Early Childhood, Age Group: Elementary School (K-5), Age Group: High School (9-12), Age Group: Higher Education, Age Group: K-12, Age Group: Middle School (6-8), Age Group: Prek-12 Brielle Killip Audience: School Staff, Audience: Parent, Audience: Parent/Caregiver, Resource Type: Webinar, Topic: Communicating with Families, Age Group: Adult Learning, Age Group: Early Childhood, Age Group: Elementary School (K-5), Age Group: High School (9-12), Age Group: Higher Education, Age Group: K-12, Age Group: Middle School (6-8), Age Group: Prek-12 Brielle Killip

Partnering to Support Family Engagement

With reflective approaches, schools, districts, and families can support the process and organizational conditions to enable family engagement to thrive while building the dual capacity necessary to improve student outcomes.

Prerecorded 2024, 1hr.

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Audience: School Staff, Audience: Teacher, Resource Type: Downloadable Resource, Topic: Parent-Teacher Conference, Age Group: Adult Learning, Age Group: Early Childhood, Age Group: Elementary School (K-5), Age Group: High School (9-12), Age Group: Higher Education, Age Group: K-12, Age Group: Middle School (6-8), Age Group: Prek-12 Brielle Killip Audience: School Staff, Audience: Teacher, Resource Type: Downloadable Resource, Topic: Parent-Teacher Conference, Age Group: Adult Learning, Age Group: Early Childhood, Age Group: Elementary School (K-5), Age Group: High School (9-12), Age Group: Higher Education, Age Group: K-12, Age Group: Middle School (6-8), Age Group: Prek-12 Brielle Killip

Tips for Family Conferences

By National Center for Families Learning

This tip sheet provides steps for educators to take before, during, and after family conferences.

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Audience: District Staff, Audience: District Staff-Principal Coach, Resource Type: Training, Audience: Principal, Topic: Racism, Age Group: Adult Learning, Age Group: Early Childhood, Age Group: Elementary School (K-5), Age Group: High School (9-12), Age Group: Higher Education, Age Group: K-12, Age Group: Middle School (6-8), Age Group: Prek-12 Brielle Killip Audience: District Staff, Audience: District Staff-Principal Coach, Resource Type: Training, Audience: Principal, Topic: Racism, Age Group: Adult Learning, Age Group: Early Childhood, Age Group: Elementary School (K-5), Age Group: High School (9-12), Age Group: Higher Education, Age Group: K-12, Age Group: Middle School (6-8), Age Group: Prek-12 Brielle Killip

The Equity Lab

The Equity Lab seeks to disrupt racial and ethnic inequity by engaging organizations in issues of race, equity, diversity, and inclusion (REDI).

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Audience: Parent, Audience: Parent/Caregiver, Audience: Kin-relationship, Resource Type: Website, Topic: Technology, Age Group: Prek-12 Brielle Killip Audience: Parent, Audience: Parent/Caregiver, Audience: Kin-relationship, Resource Type: Website, Topic: Technology, Age Group: Prek-12 Brielle Killip

Parenting, Media, and Everything in Between

Articles and resources on parenting, media, and everything in between to help you support your child have a healthy and safe relationship with technology.

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Audience: Community Partner, Audience: School Staff, Audience: District Staff-Family-School-Community Partnership, Audience: District Staff, Resource Type: Downloadable Resource, Topic: Family Engagement Planning, Age Group: Adult Learning, Age Group: Early Childhood, Age Group: Elementary School (K-5), Age Group: High School (9-12), Age Group: Higher Education, Age Group: K-12, Age Group: Middle School (6-8), Age Group: Prek-12 Brielle Killip Audience: Community Partner, Audience: School Staff, Audience: District Staff-Family-School-Community Partnership, Audience: District Staff, Resource Type: Downloadable Resource, Topic: Family Engagement Planning, Age Group: Adult Learning, Age Group: Early Childhood, Age Group: Elementary School (K-5), Age Group: High School (9-12), Age Group: Higher Education, Age Group: K-12, Age Group: Middle School (6-8), Age Group: Prek-12 Brielle Killip

NCFL Library of Resources

by NCFL

Explore NCFL’s library of publications, research materials, and other resources for the latest on family literacy, family engagement, and family leadership.

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Audience: Parent, Audience: Parent/Caregiver, Audience: Kin-relationship, Resource Type: Downloadable Resource, Topic: Family Engagement Planning, Age Group: Adult Learning, Age Group: Early Childhood, Age Group: Elementary School (K-5), Age Group: High School (9-12), Age Group: Higher Education, Age Group: K-12, Age Group: Middle School (6-8), Age Group: Prek-12 Brielle Killip Audience: Parent, Audience: Parent/Caregiver, Audience: Kin-relationship, Resource Type: Downloadable Resource, Topic: Family Engagement Planning, Age Group: Adult Learning, Age Group: Early Childhood, Age Group: Elementary School (K-5), Age Group: High School (9-12), Age Group: Higher Education, Age Group: K-12, Age Group: Middle School (6-8), Age Group: Prek-12 Brielle Killip

Family Engagement Activities

These activities encompass social-emotional benefits of play-based learning, foster inclusion, nurture cognitive and social development, support emergent learning in literacy and math and, most importantly, cultivate joy!

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Audience: School Staff, Audience: District Staff, Audience: Teacher, Audience: Assistant Principal, Audience: Community Partner, Audience: Counselor, Audience: District Staff-Family-School-Community Partnership, Audience: District Staff-MTSS, Audience: District Staff-Principal Coach, Audience: Family Liaison or Advocate, Audience: Front Office Personnel, Audience: Grandparent, Audience: Kin-relationship, Audience: Other, Audience: Parent, Audience: Parent/Caregiver, Audience: Principal, Audience: Social Worker, Audience: Student, Resource Type: Other, Topic: Technology, Age Group: Adult Learning, Age Group: Early Childhood, Age Group: Elementary School (K-5), Age Group: High School (9-12), Age Group: Higher Education, Age Group: K-12, Age Group: Middle School (6-8), Age Group: Prek-12 Brielle Killip Audience: School Staff, Audience: District Staff, Audience: Teacher, Audience: Assistant Principal, Audience: Community Partner, Audience: Counselor, Audience: District Staff-Family-School-Community Partnership, Audience: District Staff-MTSS, Audience: District Staff-Principal Coach, Audience: Family Liaison or Advocate, Audience: Front Office Personnel, Audience: Grandparent, Audience: Kin-relationship, Audience: Other, Audience: Parent, Audience: Parent/Caregiver, Audience: Principal, Audience: Social Worker, Audience: Student, Resource Type: Other, Topic: Technology, Age Group: Adult Learning, Age Group: Early Childhood, Age Group: Elementary School (K-5), Age Group: High School (9-12), Age Group: Higher Education, Age Group: K-12, Age Group: Middle School (6-8), Age Group: Prek-12 Brielle Killip

Digital Equity, Literacy, and Inclusion Initiative

by Digital Equity Team

The Office of the Future of Work, Colorado Broadband Office, and Office of eHealth Innovation make up the Digital Equity Team which works with partners to ensure all Coloradans have the digital skills, devices, and affordable access to the internet needed for full participation in our society, democracy, and economy.

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Audience: School Staff, Audience: District Staff, Audience: Teacher, Resource Type: Video, Topic: Parent-Teacher Conference, Age Group: Prek-12 Brielle Killip Audience: School Staff, Audience: District Staff, Audience: Teacher, Resource Type: Video, Topic: Parent-Teacher Conference, Age Group: Prek-12 Brielle Killip

Academic Parent Teacher Teams

by Maria Paredes

This is a video of an Academic Parent Teacher Team (APTT) meeting at Stanton Elementary school in Southeast Washington, D.C.. APTT is a family engagement strategy that aims to provide parents the information they need to be effective partners in supporting their childrens' education. The APTT model was developed in the Creighton school district in Phoenix, Arizona by Maria Paredes.

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Resource Type: Book, Age Group: Prek-12, Audience: Student, Audience: Parent/Caregiver, Audience: School Staff, Audience: District Staff, Audience: Community Partner, Resource Type: Article, Topic: Academics, Age Group: Early Childhood, Age Group: Elementary School (K-5), Age Group: Middle School (6-8), Age Group: High School (9-12), Age Group: K-12, Age Group: Higher Education, Age Group: Adult Learning Brielle Killip Resource Type: Book, Age Group: Prek-12, Audience: Student, Audience: Parent/Caregiver, Audience: School Staff, Audience: District Staff, Audience: Community Partner, Resource Type: Article, Topic: Academics, Age Group: Early Childhood, Age Group: Elementary School (K-5), Age Group: Middle School (6-8), Age Group: High School (9-12), Age Group: K-12, Age Group: Higher Education, Age Group: Adult Learning Brielle Killip

American Parents Have No Idea How Their Kids Are Doing in School

by Jenny Anderson

Many American parents would be shocked to know where their kids were actually achieving. Nationally, 90% of parents think their children are reading and doing math at or above grade level. In fact, 26% of eighth graders are proficient or above in math and 31% are proficient or above in English, according to Learning Heroes, an organization that collects data and creates resources to improve parent-teacher relationships.

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Resource Type: Book, Age Group: Prek-12, Topic: School Climate and Culture Brielle Killip Resource Type: Book, Age Group: Prek-12, Topic: School Climate and Culture Brielle Killip

Belonging Through a Culture of Dignity: The Keys to Successful Equity Implementation

by Floyd Cobb (Author), John Krownapple (Author), Brenda CampbellJones (Foreword) 

Even with access to compelling theories and approaches such as multicultural education, culturally responsive teaching, culturally relevant instruction, culturally sustaining pedagogy, schools still struggle to implement equitable change that reshapes the academic experiences of students marginalized by the prevailing history, culture, and traditions in public education. Through their work, the authors aim to equip educators with the tools necessary to deliver the promise of democracy through schools by breaking the cycle of equity dysfunction once and for all.

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Resource Type: Book, Age Group: Prek-12, Topic: Family Engagement Planning Brielle Killip Resource Type: Book, Age Group: Prek-12, Topic: Family Engagement Planning Brielle Killip

Equity Partnerships: A Culturally Proficient Guide to Family, School, and Community Engagement 1st Edition

by Angela R. Clark-Louque (Author), Randall B. Lindsey (Author), Reyes L. Quezada (Author), Cynthia L. Jew (Author)

Discover new concepts and strategies to engage families and communities―and reduce, if not eliminate, barriers--through four essential principles: communication, connection, collaboration, and community.

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