Family Engagement Guide
2024-2025 Family Engagement Plan
Family Engagement Belief Statement: Students, Staff, and Families Together, Rising to New Heights
Identify the opportunities for how parents/caregivers will be invited and involved at Central Heights:
- Read newsletters/communications
- Reach out to any staff members via phone/email
- Text with our social worker
- Make an appointment or walk in
- Engage in family conferences
Identify the important elements of the school’s 100 Day plan that will incorporate family engagement to strengthen the partnership between school and families. Identify how/when the families will help the school to achieve its goals:
- Engaging in more family nights throughout the year
- Helping put up bulletin boards/bringing food and treats in for staff
- Contributing extra money to field trip costs so all students can attend
- Engaging in family conferences
- Receiving positive news
Identify how and when information is shared with families, information how families can/should support student success:
- Huskies Have Heart newsletter, sent at least every other Sunday by BBC (new segment of how to support student via supporting our school handbook highlighted in the 2023-24 school year)
- Postcards with a video of Principal PrankeKlang, Associate Principal Brooks & SP30 teacher via a QR code sent on 8/28/23
Facilitate at least two Community Conversations with parents/caregivers:
- Family Night, September 27, 2023, number of attendees: 200+
- Family Night, January 31, 2024
- Family Night May 15, 2024
Identify the strategies for family engagement that show up on our SAIL plan:
- Family Fun Nights
- Positive phone calls home
Identify the training/coaching educators, coaches and club advisors will receive to support family engagement with parents/caregivers:
- Front office will onboard new-to-us students with key components of beginning of the year
- Attend Family Night so students can introduce their families to more staff members
- Positive phone calls home to each SP30 student
- Equity Team training/self reflections/identity journey
The goal of sharing this guide is to help you find the pathways to partnership that your school has set up for families. You are essential to student success and that you belong as a part of your student’s school community. All parents and caregivers are essential partners in every child's educational journey. The collaboration of our staff and families is fundamental to supporting students in achieving their highest potential.
| Belief Statement | [school staff paste here] |
| Invitation to volunteer | |
| Invitation to attend school-wide events | |
| Be a part of our Community Conversations to help us grow | |
| Help us meet our goals as a school community | |
| SCO - role, goals, opportunities to participate | |
| How your school will communicate with you | |
| How your teachers will communicate with you | |
| How you can support your student's success and advocate for them | |
| How to contact your school |