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Ideas for Getting Started

• New Teachers: Working With Parents: Find ideas to help teachers engage and build trust with families.Ìý(Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú, 2016)
• The Beginners' Guide to Connecting Home and School: Discover five steps to engage parents, whether through at-home activities or in-class participation.Ìý(Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú, 2014)
• Five-Minute Film Festival: Parent-Teacher Partnerships: Watch this video playlist on parent engagement for ideas on fostering strong parent-teacher relationships.Ìý(Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú, Updated 2014)
• 12 Conversation Starters on What Parents Want You (Teachers) to Know: Put yourself in parents' shoes with this list of 12 conversations teachers should be having.Ìý(Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú, 2013)
• : Check out a guide to effective parent-teacher relationships, including sections on benefits, communication strategies, and phone guidelines.Ìý(Reading Rockets)
• : Discover a variety of helpful readings, resources, and downloads for welcoming linguistically and culturally diverse parents.Ìý(Teaching Tolerance)

Teacher-Tested Strategies and Tips

• 9 Tips for Organizing Family Conferences: Review steps to make family conferences welcoming and efficient like smart scheduling, sending questions in advance, keeping student materials on hand, and thinking like a parent. (Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú, 2015)
• 3 Ways to Make Meaningful Connections With Your Students: To have a better sense of your students' lives outside of school, consider setting time aside to get to know them outside of class. (Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú, 2015)
• Kitchen Table Connections (or 5 Ideas to Re-Envision Homework): Discover how homework can be used to bring bridges between students’ home lives and school lives. (Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú, 2015)
• 8 Tips for Reaching Out to Parents: Discover eight tips for engaging with parents, from avoiding confrontation and communicating clearly, to earning their trust on back-to-school night and coaching their children's after-school activities. (Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú, Updated 2015)
• Home Visits: Reaching Beyond the Classroom:ÌýGet to know your students and strengthen the home-school partnership with these seven tips for reaching out to parents and meeting families.Ìý(Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú, 2014)
• 5 Tips for Engaging Parent Volunteers in the Classroom: Read about obstacles to and success strategies for engaging parent volunteers in the classroom.Ìý(Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú, 2013)

Effective Communication Is Key

• Tech-Enhanced Parent Engagement: Use email, messaging apps, websites, or virtual office hours to keep parents in the loop about what’s going on in the classroom. (Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú, 2016)
• Back-to-School Night: The Ultimate Conversation Starter for a Successful School Year: When establishing that first contact with parents on back-to-school night, start the year right by being transparent, direct, and consistent. (Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú, Updated 2015)
• The Power of the Positive Phone Call Home: Discover how positive phone calls with students' families can transform your classroom dynamics.Ìý(Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú, Updated 2015)
• Empathy and Research: Engaging Parents With Tech Initiatives: Welcome parents into the conversation, listen to their concerns, and make them part of the solution.Ìý(Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú, 2014)
• : Explore different educator perspectives in this collection of articles about communicating effectively with parents.Ìý(Education Week Teacher, 2015)
• : Find resources, ideas, and practices for parent-teacher conferences, open houses, newsletters, and more.Ìý(Scholastic)Ìý

Top Tips for School Leaders

• Family Engagement: Engaging the Disengaged: Start with listening to understand the causes of parent disengagement. (Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú, 2016)
• How Can High Poverty Schools Engage Families and the Community?: Explore seven strategies and practices to build trust between schools, students, and families. (Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú, 2016)
• 8 Ways to Encourage Family Engagement in Secondary Schools: Read about various ways that schools can reach out to and engage families. (Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú, 2016)
• Maintaining School-to-Home Ties in the High School Years: Commit to a tiered communication strategy that leverages both the power of technology and personal interactions. (Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú, 2015)
• Homework vs. No Homework Is the Wrong Question: Read about the home activities that matter the most for student learning and development and the role that parents play in them, as your school considers homework policies. (Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú, 2015)

How Parents Can Get Involved

• Back-to-School Resources for Parents: Find resources to help children begin school with a positive mindset, support their transition into a new school year, and prepare them for fall learning. (Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú, Updated 2016)
• Myths That Undermine Parent Involvement: See how parents can partner effectively by supporting home learning, establishing constructive dialogue with educators and policy makers, and shining as individuals within their community. (Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú, 2016)
• 5-Minute Film Festival: Building a Parent Toolkit: Check out a few of the best videos and tools for parents of kids at every age and grade from the Parent Toolkit website. (Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú, 2015)
• 19 Proven Tips for Getting Parents Involved at School: Browse through proven strategies, courtesy of parents and educators in the Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú and online communities,Ìýfor strengthening the connection between home and school.Ìý(Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú and GreatSchools, 2014)
• Parents: 19 Meaningful Questions You Should Ask Your Child's Teacher: Consider asking one or more of these 19 meaningful questions at the beginning of the school year.Ìý(Â鶹´«Ã½Èë¿Ú, 2013)