Family Engagement

Schools that support family engagement in boosting at-home digital use can expect better outcomes.

All guiding questions are aligned to the element criteria located in the Portfolio Guide.

Community Outreach

Guiding questions:

What are the needs of your community and how are you meeting them?
How are families empowered to support their children at home?
How did you support technology literacy in your community?
What are your plans for family engagement at your school? How have/will these activities enhance and support technology integration with your families?

Students using their IPADS to collect real time data on speed of a toy car

Academic Night for Parents and Students

Literacy Websites

During Academic Night, parents had the opportunity to scan QR codes that will direct them to various Literacy Websites and Apps for their scholars. These websites include places for students to read books for free and play games to increase their reading comprehension and phonics skills.

Black History Month Family Project

For BHM, scholars and families were given the oppertunity to work together to create a poster about a Hero in history using their VILS devices. Scholars and families were provided a Wakelet that had 88 different heroes to choose from. They were then assigned to use Canva to create the poster and upload to their Digital Citizenship Google Classroom.

Report Card Day

For Report Card Day, the VILS Coach had a table to talk to parents and families about various tech use both in and out of school. This included talking about programs that teachers use for instruction with students and websites/apps that students can use outside of school to further their education. The brochure below was used to provide this information to parents/guardians.

Akili VILS Report Card Brochure (1).pdf

Family Communication on Devices

Akili Winter Break_Student Tech Turn-In (1).pdf

Family Communication

Parents are constantly kept informed through flyers about when VILS devices are kept at school or if they have an Invoice for missing/broken devices. When devices are kept at school, parents are notified through the flyer and a posting in the Parent Gator Gazette. When students have an outstanding fee, parents/guardians are notified with a phone call from the coach, a notice on the students' pay check, and an invoice letter sent home to parents. All fliers are sent out in both English and Spanish.

VILS Tech Items Replacement Invoice 2022

Translated copy of VILS Technology Invoice 2022

Element Reflection

Self Reflection on the Element: (Choose one: Emerging, Aligning, or Optimizing)
- I believe we are Aligning for Family Engagement.
Strengths: How did your campus exemplify illustrating this element?
Next Steps: What could you have done differently to better align with this element?
- For next year, a big plan is to have a VILS Parent night in the beginning of the year. This will allow for parents to be able to sign out each individual piece of VILS technology. This will also allow parents to have an open forum in order to ask any questions they might have about the technology and student use.

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