Families and educators maintain a strong, consistent partnership to ensure every student develops and achieves their full potential.
Strategic Roadmap
Every educator, administrator, and program staff member understands the value of family communication and consistently applies strategies to facilitate strong school-home partnerships.
Consistent communication channels are used by schools and programs to share performance results with families and maintain productive contact.
Collaboration among families, teachers, and administrators ensures unified support for student achievement goals.
Your Role...
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.
Routines and Transitions Class
We are excited to highlight a fantastic partnership between Booth Elementary School and Positive Behavior Support-Nevada (PBS-NV)! This initiative is all about empowering families with awesome, research-based strategies to cheer on their children's success from home to the classroom.
This workshop uses the Positive Behavior Support (PBS) framework—a wonderful, proactive approach that focuses on teaching cool new skills and setting up the environment for total success!
The Goal: To team up with families and share great strategies that make daily life smoother. We’re focusing on boosting cooperation and making those tricky moments, like morning routines or switching between activities, easier.
Aligning the Birth–3rd Grade Continuum: Booth ES is building a brilliant "behavioral bridge". When families and teachers use the same structure, it helps students feel confident and secure, creating a rock-solid foundation for learning as they grow through the early grades.
Even though we're just getting started with this cycle, we already have a huge reason to celebrate: the incredible family interest! By personally reaching out and inviting families to join in, Booth ES has built a wonderful community of parents who are fired up and ready to use these helpful behavioral tools at home. The energy is amazing!
Designed to guide families, educators, and community members in fostering collaborative partnerships to support student success.
Empowers parents and caregivers of children prenatal to age eight to lead and shape early childhood policy and decision-making in Nevada through leadership training and advocacy.
Areas of Overlap
Contact Information
Nevada Department of Education - Office of Early Learning and Development
Anna Severens – aseverens@doe.nv.gov