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Help your district's staff establish effective practices for engaging their students' families.
Co-developed alongside family engagement and education leaders to provide schools with high-quality, research-based learning content
Asynchronous online learning courses match anyone’s learning schedule and style
Designed to help schools create and meet their strategic priorities
Course content and activities drive experimentation, reflection, and application of best practices
Tailored content for teachers, leaders, and family ambassadors
Track completed work and gather online data to measure and report staff learning
What others have said about Livingtree's family engagement trainings
Every school struggles with family engagement and if you’re like us, we aren’t sure exactly what to target to make improvements because it is overwhelming. After attending today I feel like we can take on the challenge...in bits and pieces slowly over time without adding anything new.
Anna Sell
Principal
This was such a great opportunity for us to collaborate, we had a chance to learn new ideas, highly effective strategies for increasing student achievement, and we are excited to explore more with Livingtree.
Jessica Stein
Family Engagement Coordinator
After spending the day I’m realizing that I actually learned a lot of new ways and ideas, and kind of a whole general philosophy of how to help my families be more excited and engaged in their kids’ learning
Jan
Kindergarten Teacher
Today, 3 days before our families came in, my entire staff feels so confident about ways to connect with families and I think we now have purpose and intention in looking at ways we connect with families that we would not have gotten had we just bought technology.
Christi Brzycki
Principal
Learn how you can equip your staff with effective family engagement strategies. You can view the available course options and their curriculums to determine what will work best for your staff.
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Effective family engagement in your district is dependent on creating a core practice in every school and classroom. Help all of your district's staff establish effective practices for engaging their students' families.
Regional and state-wide training options are available.
Regional and state-wide training options available
Family engagement is a critical component of student success, but staff often struggle with how to engage their students' families. So much of a family's relationship with a school is built on their regular interactions and communication, yet most staff don't receive training on how to effectively communicate with families, utilize two-way communication, or extend their knowledge of family engagement into their regular core practices.
Livingtree's Professional Development delivers clear instruction on practical high-impact strategies, based on family engagement research, to create measurable core practices in your schools and classrooms to improve engagement in student learning.
With the online-based professional learning program, you have the choice of separate training courses tailored specifically for your district's teachers, family ambassadors, or leadership.
Sometimes family engagement feels like an insurmountable task - schools often struggle with implementing family engagement as a core practice, or they lack sufficient knowledge and training among their staff about how the research translates into practice. Livingtree's professional development prepares schools to overcome these barriers.
Family engagement isn’t truly effective until it becomes a core component of the school, instead of an add-on or temporary initiative. Staff learn to apply authentic family engagement practices as a Community of Practice.
Make Family Engagement a Core Practice
Prepare all Staff to Effectively Engage Families
Provide Tailored Training and Practical Strategies
Teacher pre-service lacks thorough family engagement training, leaving teachers without knowledge of best practice. Schools and districts can efficiently train all staff to engage families.
Family engagement training options are limited, and often only cover the research and principles. Teachers, leaders, and family ambassadors can finally participate in training tailored to their role and learn how to apply best practices.
Teachers
Family Ambassadors
Leadership
Livingtree's Professional Development delivers actionable learning to help your staff learn, practice, and apply effective family engagement approaches. The tailored curriculum trains staff on practices in the following areas:
Shifting to a Family-Centric Practice
Understanding Why Families Disengage
Components of Authentic Family Engagement Practice
Change Management and Applying Authentic Practices as a Community of Practice
Re-Engaging Families through Best Practice
Measuring Engagement and Efficacy
Creating High Efficacy Interactions and Communications
Creating a Family Engagement Vision and Designing a School Improvement Plan
Co-developed alongside family engagement and education leaders to provide schools with high-quality, research-based learning content
Asynchronous online learning courses match anyone’s learning schedule and style
Coursework designed to help schools create and meet their strategic priorities
Course content and activities drive experimentation, reflection, and application of best practices to ultimately improve engagement
Separate courses with tailored content for teachers, leaders, and family ambassadors.
Online environment provides administrators with completed work, with data to measure and report learning
Teachers
Designed for educators that covers the following topics:
Overview:
Outcomes:
Participants will understand the shift to a family-centric practice, how to approach family engagement as a community of practice, and how to create impactful communications that engage their student's families in learning.
Family Ambassadors
Designed for those in family liaison, coordinator, or facilitator positions that covers the following topics:
Overview:
Outcomes:
Participants will understand the shift to a family-centric practice, family engagement as a community of practice, how to use change management strategies to create a community of practice, and how to create impactful communications that engage their student's families in learning.
Leadership
Designed for a cohort of school and district leaders that covers the following topics:
Overview:
Outcomes:
Participants will understand the shift to a family-centric practice, how to how to use change management strategies to create a community of practice, how to support high efficacy interactions as a leader, and how to use these modules to develop an improvement plan.
Courses specifically designed for: