2022-2023 Family Engagement Training & Professional Development

2022-2023 Family Engagement Training & Professional Development When schools engage parents/guardians as authentic partners, students do significantly better in school.

Families In Schools (FIS) offers schools and community organizations programs to give staff, parents, and students new learning opportunities that increase knowledge and skills to support student success.

Family Engagement Institutes Based on more than 20 years of experience working with families, Families In Schools has developed an array of tools and trainings that help educational institutions, and community based organizations, better work with and partner with families. Our Family Engagement Institutes focus on helping school, district and organizational staff learn about research-based strategies and best practices for creating an environment for effective and authentic family engagement.

Family Engagement Strategies Institute This module focuses on helping participants learn about research-based strategies and best practices that engage parents and guardians in authentic and meaningful ways to support student achievement, increase effective communication between staff and families, and bridge a college and career-ready culture between school and home.

Welcoming Environment Institute This module provides participants with foundational knowledge and understanding of family engagement research and best practices, an overview of the four domains of a welcoming environment and their relationship to encouraging and supporting parental involvement, and an opportunity to assess and enhance their school’s strategies for creating a welcoming environment.

Outreach, Recruitment & Retention Institute This module provides participants with an opportunity to learn best practices for encouraging and increasing parent participation at events, meetings, and trainings. The module explores the importance of building a team, planning and implementation strategies, developing communication tools, tracking results, and debriefing/reflecting.

Curricular Programs The goals of the FIS curricular programs are to provide parents with the knowledge, skills, tools, and confidence to enhance their involvement in their child’s education. Your staff will receive 2-day training to successfully engage parents and guardians and implement a Families In Schools' curricular program at your site. Your staff will have the opportunity to become familiar with FIS curricular programs, methodology and facilitation practices.

At the end of the training staff will be certified family workshop facilitators.

5th Grade - 8th Grade Transition to Middle School is a four-week program that enables parents to gain confidence in guiding and monitoring their child’s educational and social development during the important transitional stage between elementary and middle school, so the child is prepared for and ultimately successful in college. The programs provide interactive lessons about the importance of education, adolescent social development, academic success strategies, and college preparation.

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GROWTH MINDSET SKILLS FOR SUCCESS

Growth Mindset is a four week curriculum that encourages parents to learn new strategies to support their child’s education. The interactive lessons focus on learning mindsets, family communication, and ways parents can support their child’s development of non-cognitive skills.

Steps to Success - Middle School is a four-week curriculum that engages parents/guardians of English learners in their children's academic achievement.

Based on a learner-centered approach, families strengthen their knowledge about the English learner reclassification process and increase their skills to support their child's language development.

5th Grade - 12th Grade College Knowledge Academy - College Smartsis a five-week project-based program for parents/guardians and their children that promotes early planning and knowledge about postsecondary options. The program provides interactive lessons focused on building parent/child communication, the benefits of higher education, financial aid, and college preparation.

College Knowledge Academy - Money Smarts is a five week project based program, for parents and their children, that promotes early planning and knowledge about postsecondary options and financial literacy. The Money Smarts program provides interactive lessons focused on building parent/child communication, the importance of higher education, financial aid, goal setting and planning financially for college.

Transition to High School is a four week program that enables parents to gain confidence in guiding and monitoring their child's educational and social development during the important transitional stage between middle school and high school, so the student is prepared for and ultimately successful in college. The program provides interactive lessons about the importance of education, adolescent social development, academic success strategies, and college preparation.

Transition to College is a six-week program that helps address the transition of underserved students from high school to college. The program is designed to enhance parents' ability to support their child's last year in high school and the transition to college.

Parent Leadership Program Through the Parent Leadership Program, parents will have the opportunity to use their leadership skills in support of PARENT LEADERSHIP improving local educational policies and practices that benefit all students. The program enhances the skills, knowledge, and confidence of parents necessary to PROGRAM create meaningful change in their schools and community. Parents will have the opportunity to impact K-12 educational policy or higher education policy.