The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading and Teach Plus share a belief in the power of teachers and parents — in their classrooms, schools and communities — to shape student success. Parents are deeply connected to their children’s needs. Our excellent, experienced and diverse teachers are uniquely positioned as a voice for change, placed at the intersection of teaching and learning with their students, and directly affected by education policy while also holding the potential for connection to parents and community. By forging strong, positive and productive partnerships, our teachers, parents and school leaders can work together to shape new solutions that will advance equity and improve outcomes for students.
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I invite you to register and join me on March 10, 3-4:30 p.m. ET, as I moderate a conversation with two social entrepreneurs at the forefront of emerging solutions to better support student success through stronger parent-teacher partnerships. Maria Paredes of WestEd will share how she drew on her experiences in the classroom and as a district-level director of family and community engagement to develop Academic Parent-Teacher Teams (APTT). This research-based family engagement model supplements and elevates traditional parent-teacher conferences, creating a systematic pathway for teachers to share grade-level information, tools and strategies that families can apply at home and in the community to accelerate their child’s learning. Meghan Wells will explain how PowerMyLearning works to strengthen the “triangle” of learning relationships between students, teachers and families with a focus on student learning. Recognizing the challenges posed by language, technology access and resource barriers, PowerMyLearning developed Family Playlists® — mobile-friendly, multilingual homework assignments where students teach their parents.
This webinar is the fifth installment in the seven-part, monthly Productive Parent/Teacher Partnership webinar series, hosted by the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. This special series is designed to assist and inspire local stakeholders to prioritize, invest in and support programs that accomplish what research, experience and common sense confirm are essential to student success: strong, positive and productive relationships between parents and teachers.
We hope that this series will equip GLR community leads and local funders with new insights, fresh tools and evidence of impact with which to engage your respective local GLR coalitions in the important work of assuring early school success for children in the early grades by strengthening family engagement.
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