Team up to Support Student Success
Families are eager to support learning when they understand how their child is progressing. By building trust and sharing a clear picture of student learning, you can help families become confident partners in their child's success.
Free tools and resources
Make the Most of Your Time with Families
Use this simple 3-step tool to co-create a plan with families. It provides a guide and one place to capture family insights, share benchmark data, and a plan focused on key grade-level skills.
How to Talk to Families About Test Scores
Understanding Assessments: A Tool for Families is a helpful guide for breaking down what different test results mean. Use it to inform your conversations with families, or print and send it home along with test results.
Lean into Candid Conversations
Sometimes honest conversations about students’ grade level performance can feel hard but they don’t need to be. Use this “Frequently Asked Questions” resource to support you as you listen to families and navigate these conversations.
Build Trust Over Time
Showing you care about families helps build trust, which is key to deeper partnerships. Make a personal phone call or visit and keep the conversation going throughout the year. This helps you better connect with students in the classroom!
Check out these educator resources including Conversation Starters and more from the Parent-Teacher Home Visit Program.
Help Build Good Attendance
By creating a welcoming and engaging classroom, you can make school a place where kids want to be. And by partnering with families, you can help address other barriers to regular attendance. Get practical ideas, tools, handouts, videos and more from Attendance Works.
Hear from an educator on how you can partner with families to improve partnership and engagement.
“Schools fighting a surge in chronically absent students may find success if they focus on strengthening the bonds they have with parents*.”
Featured Partner Resources
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A Teacher’s Guide to Learning Differences and ADHD
One in five kids in the United States have learning and thinking differences like dyslexia and ADHD. Figuring out how to support these students and partner with their families can feel overwhelming for teachers. That’s why we teamed up with Understood.org to create a new teacher’s guide with practical resources, tools, videos, and more.
Providing clear, actionable feedback can help students understand their progress and what to do next. Explore seven practical, research-based strategies for making feedback more meaningful, efficient, and focused on student growth.