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Family Engagement:
Oregon 21st CCLC Spring ConferenceFriday, May 29, 2015
Debra M. EllisFamily Engagement Resource Provider (FERP) Project
Connecting and Sustaining!
For children’s learning to be successful, 21st CCLCs and parents need to work together in close partnership and move beyond information sharing and occasional parental participation in activities and events. Taking this next step will ensure that 21st CCLCs are contributing to children’s learning in meaningful ways that complement what is taught in schools and other learning settings. Thus, parents and 21st CCLCs have a shared responsibility for promoting children’s learning.
~ National Conference of State Legislatures
Goals and ObjectivesParticipants will…
Showcase their vision for Family Engagement for their program
Discuss ways to connect family engagement to program goals
Explore how to make family engagement a key component of program quality
Identify ways family engagement can help sustain program components
Family BackgroundFamily engagement through the lens of a parent of
a child with disabilities
Professional BackgroundBA Child and Family StudiesMA Public Administration20 years experience with family
engagement and early childhood educationDeep understanding of importance of family
engagement
Write a bumper sticker slogan about what Family
Engagement means to you!
Organizing Schools for Improvement
School Leadership
Instructional Guidance
Professional Capacity
Student-Centered Learning Climate
Parent/Community Relations
Organizing Schools for Improvement: Lessons Learned from Chicago Schools. Bryk, Sebring, Allensworth, Luppescu, and Easton.
Partnerships by Design1. Identify desired results
2. Determine acceptable evidence
3. Plan activities
Versus – planning activities from a list of things from your “family engagement” Box.
A New PlanMost important goals for your program or the students in your program. (What are they going to leave the room with!!!)
How are you measuring whether you have met this goal?
What activities will you plan to help meet this goal?
How can you engage the student’s family in helping him/her achieve this goal? or helping your program to achieve this goal?
How are you including students, families, and program staff in creating these goals and planning activities?
Report Out
What changes have you decided to implement for your next year?
Important Things to Remember
Its all about the Goals!Connected to Academic Achievement
RelationshipsWhat do you know about the families and their
needs? – What motivates them?What relationships have you built?How have you invited them?
Location, Location, LocationMeeting the families where they are – emotionally
and physically!
Important Things to Remember
CommunicationTwo-way, meaningful, positive If you survey them, make sure you communicate
with them what you learned and how you are using that information!
ConnectedFamily Engagement should be connected to the
other activities in your program – not a separate, disconnected activity!Example – building literacy into everything you do!!!
Wrap Up / Q&A
Debbie Ellis
Family Engagement Resource Provider (FERP)
503-275-9552 / 503-816-2137
This information is being provided as part of a Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 webinar for the Family Engagement Resource Providers (FERP) Project. This project supports the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) grant program administered by the U.S. Department of Education. Information and materials mentioned or shown during this presentation are provided as resources and examples for the viewer’s convenience. Their inclusion is not intended as an endorsement by the U.S. Department of Education.
In addition, the instructional practices and assessments discussed or shown in these presentations are not intended to mandate, direct, or control a State’s, local educational agency’s, or school’s specific instructional content, academic achievement system and assessments, curriculum, or program of instruction. States and local programs are free to use any instructional content, achievement system and assessments, curriculum, or program instruction that they wish, insofar as they support the goals and objectives of the 21st CCLC program, as authorized.
Office of Elementary and Secondary EducationU.S. Department of Education
Copyright © 2014 Family Engagement Resource Provider (FERP), All rights reserved.
Funding StatementMaterials were supported by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, 21st Century Community Learning Center (21st CCLC) Program, Contract #ED-ESE-12-C-0070. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the positions or policies of the Department. No official endorsement by the Department of any product, commodity, service, or enterprise mentioned in this material is intended or should be inferred.
About the FERP Project Serving 21stCCLC programs nationwide
FERPs provide technical assistance, capacity-building, communities of practice for SEAs and Program Directors
FERP is building a national collaborative system of support for family engagement
National webinars open to all
Resources will be available through You4Youth website (http://y4y.ed.gov)
Copyright © 2014 Family Engagement Resource Provider (FERP), All rights reserved.
Funding StatementMaterials were supported by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, 21st Century Community Learning Center (21st CCLC) Program, Contract #ED-ESE-12-C-0070. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the positions or policies of the Department. No official endorsement by the Department of any product, commodity, service, or enterprise mentioned in this material is intended or should be inferred.
Contact Your Regional Family Engagement Resource Provider
Copyright © 2014 Family Engagement Resource Provider (FERP), All rights reserved.
Funding StatementMaterials were supported by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, 21st Century Community Learning Center (21st CCLC) Program, Contract #ED-ESE-12-C-0070. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the positions or policies of the Department. No official endorsement by the Department of any product, commodity, service, or enterprise mentioned in this material is intended or should be inferred.
Contact Your Regional Family Engagement Resource Provider
Region States FERP
Appalachia KY, TN, VA, WV Linda [email protected]
Central CO, KS, MO, NE, ND, SD, WY Jane [email protected]
Midwest IL, IN, IA, MI, MN, OH, WI Jacqueline [email protected]
Mid-Atlantic DE, DC, MD, NJ,PA
Karen Parker [email protected]
Northeast CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, PR, RI, VT, VI
Northwest AK, ID, MT, OR, WA Debra [email protected]
Pacific AS, FM, GU, HI, MH, MP, PW, BIE
Christina [email protected]
Southeast AL, FL, GA, MS, NC, SC Donna [email protected]
Southwest AR, LA, NM, OK, TX M. Dewana [email protected]
West AZ, CA, NV, UT Carol [email protected]
FERP Leadership Team Contact Information
Sally M. Wade, Ed.D., FERP Project Director
202-904-2880
Jennifer Brady, FERP Technical Assistance Manager
207-370-0536
