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Learning targets:
Explain how to use the team-building huddles and family workshops to engage families during Springboard programming.
Read: Your role in engaging families
As a Springboard educator, you join the mission of closing the gap between home and school by both teaching children how to read and by engaging families in their children's reading progress. How do you engage families? Our programming includes two concrete ways to engage families: team-building huddles and family workshops. The FELA journey begins with a team-building huddle. The team-building huddle is a 1:1 meeting in which you start to build a relationship with families, discuss their child's reading needs and share with them the logistics of the FELA journey. Then, during programming, you will facilitate family workshops. During family workshops, step 4a of the FELA, students work with their family member to practice reading tips.
Read the quotes from former Springboard families and educators below.
Voices from the field
What families want:
I want to be part of figuring out where my child's reading abilities are so I can exchange observations with their teacher and be part of the conversation.
I want to understand the concepts my child is learning first through visual aids like video because personal educational experience is different from theirs.
I want my child to have a continued relationship with their teacher through communications where they can see or hear from them because my child is motivated by their teacher's praise and recognition.
What families experience:
We created a special bond just for reading. [Springboard] had showed us many ways she can understand a book and she... became a better reader.
These reading tips that were provided every week really helped me work with my child to improve her reading skills.
What teachers want:
I to offer something that is available consistently, but flexible enough for parents' schedules because they have other priorities to address their basic needs (work, food, childcare).
I want parents' feedback on what they observe at-home on their child's reading habits and progress because that makes it much easier for me to adapt those insights into a better teaching approach.
I want new interactions with parents where I'm not speaking at them but partnering together to discuss the child's progress and solutions that we could try out together in school and at home.
What teachers experience:
Being able to support the parents and address their questions made it engaging.
Springboard has given me the opportunity to connect with families and breakdown the perceived barriers between families and best literacy practices. Families are now more comfortable reading with their children to form that lifetime partnership and love for reading.
Springboard is more than just a program focused on teaching reading, it is about building relationships with and preparing them to keep reading.
Explore: Team-building huddle teacher guide
Explore the Team-building huddle guide. As you read, think about what information stands out to you? Be sure to save this resource to reference again before you begin your team-building huddles.
Team-building huddle teacher guide Summer or Afterschool.pdf
Materials to support you in the family workshop
Springboard provides all of the materials you need for each family workshop through the Program Resource Site. Your school site will determine which family workshops you will use for your program. The materials provided for each family workshop are:
Workshop guide
Family workshop slide deck
Reading tip sheet
Watch: What does a family workshop look like?
As you watch the video, jot down what you will be doing as an educator at the family workshop.
Watch: Springboard Collaborative Family Orientation
As a Springboard educator, we know that you will engage with families through the team-building huddles and family workshops. But what do families do throughout programming? Watch this video to see what families learn at their Springboard family orientation.
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