Family Partnerships
Administrators, teachers, and families need to work as partners to support the academic and social-emotional needs of each student. Learning at home can support what students are learning in the classroom. This page is intended to provide resources to help you engage families as you implement this year's instructional expectations. Explore the resources below to help you engage families around the Common Core and tailor them to your school as you see fit.
Resources to Support Parent Teacher Conferences
Parent-teacher conferences are a valuable way to work with your parent community to promote a shared responsibility for student achievement. Our schools employ many effective approaches to parent-teacher conference. This site will be highlighting some of these practices to help schools share and learn from each other. To introduce and engage families in the Common Core, review Maximizing Parent-Teacher Conferences and Resources to Support Sharing the Common Core with Families below.
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Student-led parent-teacher conferences promote a shared responsibility for student achievement, and encourage students to apply critical thinking skills. Click here to learn about student-led conferences at Washington Heights Expeditionary School (WHEELS), an innovative approach to promoting student progress through family partnerships. To learn how this practice is implemented, review the faculty handbook and principal's narrative from the Promising Practices Library.
When parents and teachers prepare in advance, the parent-teacher conference can support a year-long partnership. In this video, you can see the strategies one teacher uses to connect with parents. |
Resources to Support Sharing the Common Core with Families