Prioritize Family Engagement: Integrate family engagement into the overall strategic planning and include it in performance reviews for principals and site administrators.

Resource Professional Growth: Fund the creation and distribution of professional learning materials, toolkits, and resources based on established best practices for family collaboration.

Appoint Leadership: Designate a senior staff member responsible for coordinating and leading family engagement efforts across the B-3 continuum.

Align Data and Goals: Connect family involvement directly to instructional goals and create systems that provide families with comprehensive data on their child's progress (e.g., academic performance, attendance).

Build Capacity and Partnerships: Establish collaborative teams (of teachers, administrators, and families) to enhance site-level engagement, and host parent education or leadership programs with community partners to support parental guidance of children's learning.

Prioritize Staff Engagement: Integrate family collaboration into the evaluation process for teachers and other staff.

Support Professional Growth: Provide ongoing training and technical assistance focused on effective family participation to all school and program staff.

Designate Welcoming Spaces: Designate dedicated and inviting physical space where families can gather and where teachers and families can meet comfortably.

Facilitate Connection and Support: Provide opportunity and time for teachers to connect with families, and link families to relevant community support resources (e.g., job training, health services) through local collaborations.

Prioritize Engagement: View family collaboration as an essential component of their professional role and responsibilities.

Facilitate Connection: Offer frequent, accessible, and varied opportunities (like conferences, home visits, and parent-to-parent events) for families to understand and support their child's academic progress.

Collaborate on Goals: Involve families directly in the process of setting educational goals for their children.

View and Sustain Engagement: Recognize that ample opportunities for involvement exist in their children's education and actively maintain their participation throughout the entire B-3 period.

Act as Partners: See themselves as true partners with teachers and school/programs in determining the best educational goals for their own children.

Participate in Leadership: Take part in setting goals for their child's school/program by serving in leadership capacities on site-based management teams or advisory groups.