Family Engagement Leadership Institute
This nine-month Institute supports school principals and district administrators to lead family engagement strategies that directly impact student learning and well-being.
Institute Goals & Key Outcomes
Progressing through our goals will prepare participants to achieve the Institute’s key outcome: an equity-focused family engagement strategy for the next school year.
Four Key Goals — Institute participants should be able to…
- Understand the most essential research on family engagement in schools
- Develop a deeper understanding of their leadership strengths and growth edges
- Clarify their school or organization’s goals/priorities and work with a team to develop a family engagement strategy that addresses them
- Apply the leadership moves and best-practices in family engagement that drive school improvement
The Key Outcome of the Institute
Participants culminate the Institute with an equity-focused family engagement strategy for the following year that:
- Is integrated into existing priorities and plans (e.g. instructional goals, school climate strategies, etc.)
- Involves new and/or re-purposed investments (e.g. increased staff time to partner with families, PD funding, etc.)
- Applies existing management tools (e.g. hiring practices, policies, etc.)
Alumni Quotes
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I have pages of notes that have been very helpful in leading my team back in my building.
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As a leader, the biggest benefit of the Institute has been changing my thinking on how to convey family engagement to my staff, to my leadership team, to my parents, and even to my students. Usually when we look at family engagement we look at hosting events and bringing them into the school, but the Institute has provided resources to look at family engagement from another lens [and] actually ensure that it’s meaningful for the parents.
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If you are interested in this [fellowship] you are interested for a reason! If you’re in a situation now where you need to see more family engagement, you will learn so much [about this] that you can carry it forward… it’s a group of people that want to see you succeed, so you really have nothing to lose.