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2021  // Browsing posts in 2021

Francis Marion University Center of Excellence to Prepare Teachers of Children of Poverty

Francis Marion University Center of Excellence to Prepare Teachers of Children of Poverty (COE) Florence, South Carolina Tammy H. Pawloski, Director and Professor of Education TPawloski@fmarion.edu Graduate Study: Partnerships in High Poverty Schools Francis Marion University developed and conducted a course for graduate students on how to organize programs of school, family, and community partnerships […]

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Ohio Statewide Family Engagement Center

Ohio Statewide Family Engagement Center at the Ohio State University Columbus, OH Dr. Barbara Boone, OhSFEC Director boone.32@osu.edu Kristin Meek-Hennon, Program Coordinator meek-hennon.1@osu.edu Ohio Statewide Virtual End-of-Year Celebration At the end of the first year of program development, the first cohort of districts and schools across 16 regions in Ohio were ready to celebrate good […]

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Little Rock School District

Little Rock School District Little Rock, AR Kaye Rainey, Parent and Family Engagement Specialist  Kaye.Rainey@lrsd.org What’s for Dinner? Healthy Food and Good Conversations As COVID-19 continued to affect schools and families, the leaders for partnerships in Little Rock School District (LRSD) worked with other partners to offer parents and students information and resources on health […]

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Pasco School District

Pasco School District Pasco, WA Esmeralda M. Valencia, Parent Engagement Coordinator evalencia@psd1.org   Lorraine Landon, Special Programs Coordinator llandon@psd1.org ATP Champion Ideas for Today’s Leaders Leaders in Pasco School District continued an impressive history of guiding the Action Teams for Partnerships in all elementary, middle, and high schools to strengthen their partnership programs. Data from […]

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Richland County School District One

Richland County School District One Columbia, SC Latorsha Murray, Consultant – Parent and Family Engagement Latorsha.Murray@richlandone.org Virtual Workshops for Clusters of Schools on Family Engagement Richland County School District One consists of seven clusters of schools linked to each other in feeder patterns. Within each cluster, elementary school students move on to the cluster’s middle […]

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Carver-Lyon Elementary School

Columbia, SC Richland County School District One Yolanda Smith, Parent and Family Engagement Specialist yolanda.smith@richlandone.org Parking Lot Lunch and Learn The Lunch and Learn Workshop for parents and teachers needed some tweaking due to COVID-19 conditions in the 20-21 school year. Students were attending school in person, but meetings and gatherings with parents were not […]

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H. B. Rhame Elementary

Columbia, SC Richland County School District One Jennifer Etheredge, Parent and Family Engagement Specialist Jennifer.etheredge@richlandone.org Virtual Cooking Class Rhame Elementary School’s Action Team for Partnerships (ATP) worked with the Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) on a COVID-inspired family engagement activity to strengthen the school’s welcoming climate—even though families could not come to the […]

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Hawthorne Elementary School

Seattle, WA Seattle Public Schools Melissa Mak, ELL Department Lead mbmak@seattleschools.org Hawthorne’s Quarantine Academy Parents reported that they missed the monthly schoolwide family engagement activities and coffee chats that were held pre-COVID. They asked the partnership team to conduct family-friendly activities with ideas to do at home with their children.  The school’s partnership team discussed […]

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McMillan Early Learning Center

Cleveland Heights, OH Cuyahoga County Universal Pre-Kindergarten/Starting Points Margie Jennings, Site Administrator Margie.jennings@thecentersohio.org Sip and Paint to Thank Essential Workers Sip and Paint took on a new form due to COVID-19 safety requirements. The activity still aimed to engage families with teachers to increase preschool students’ skills and attitudes. Last year, on Zoom, Sip and […]

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Noble Elementary School

University Heights, OH Cleveland Heights – University Heights City Schools Lisa Hunt, Family Engagement Specialist L_Hunt@CHUH.org Passport to Partnership Passport to Partnership celebrated the end of the 20-21 school year in an unusual way. Some restrictions due to COVID-19 were lifted, and students, families, and teachers could meet—some for the first time—face to face. Activities […]

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