Authentically Engaged Families: A Collaborative Care Framework for Student Success

Create a plan to connect with every family! There’s no doubt that family engagement makes a world of difference for teachers and students—but connecting with parents of various ethnic, socioeconomic, or cultural backgrounds can be challenging for educators. Calvalyn Day’s groundbreaking book offers clear instructions for building strong relationships, beginning effective dialogues, strategizing, and monitoring progress. Through the author’s perspective as a parent, counselor, and advisor to families at risk, readers will discover  • A step-by-step approach to family engagement developed for K-12 educators, including teachers, counselors, administrators and others  • Complete how-to’s for creating and carrying out a family engagement plan based on the author’s Vision, Plan, Action model  • Tools including a Parent Meeting Agenda, a Parent Empathy Map, an Educator Needs Assessment, ...