Home Visits: Building Strong Relationships During COVID-19

Join Livingtree with guests Gina Martinez-Keddy and Gretchen Viglione to learn about the Parent Teacher Home Visits (PTHV) model and how schools are applying their principles with some integral adaptations for COVID-19 to continue creating relationships that bridge the gap created by physical distancing. They will cover their model and core practices, their transition to virtual and hybrid visits, and how schools found success with Bridge Visits.

A Fresh Look at Building Parent Partnerships in Schools

Join Livingtree and guest George Otero, who has worked nationally and internationally as a teacher, educator, consultant, social entrepreneur, keynote speaker, workshop presenter, and author. George and his wife, Susan, operate the Center for RelationalLearning (CRL) based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

In this webinar, George covers a fresh look at the why, how, and what of parent partnerships, with three relationship-building approaches to implement across your district or school.

Shifting from a Schoolcentric to a Familycentric Approach

Join Livingtree and guest Debbie Pushor, Ph.D., a Professor in the Department of Curriculum Studies at the University of Saskatchewan, and former public school teacher, consultant, principal, and central services administrator, to discuss lessons she believes the crisis of the pandemic is offering us in finding different, and more respectful and equitable ways to work with parents and families.

In this webinar, Debbie covers the sacred role of parents, a new familycentric role for teachers, honoring parent knowledge, using teacher knowledge alongside parent knowledge, differentiated parent engagement and differentiated teacher engagement.

Family Engagement through an Anti-Bias, Anti-Oppressive Lens

Join Livingtree and guest Nancy Angevine-Sands, OCT, a family engagement consultant, founder of With Equal Step, and former teacher from Toronto, Canada, to discuss looking at family engagement through an Anti-Bias, Anti-Oppressive lens.

In this webinar, Nancy covers authentic family engagement and embedding Anti-Bias, Anti-Oppressive practices into relationships, communication, and strategies to engage families in learning.

Family Engagement: How to Build Relationships by Tearing Down Walls

Join Livingtree and guest Todd Nesloney, Director of Culture and Strategic Leadership for the Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association (TEPSA) and former award-winning principal, for ideas on how to build relationships with families.

Throughout the webinar, Todd shares strategies and ideas on how his school worked to continually defy expectations and tear down walls to build relationships with his community.

How To Simplify Your Communication to Improve Family Engagement

Join Livingtree and guest Patricia Weinzapfel, author of No More Mumbo Jumbo: Bridging the Communication Gap Between Educators and Families, for ideas on how to simplify and improve your communications.

Patricia shares practical tips, tools, and techniques that you can apply to all of your conversations, emails, text messages, flyers, notes, and newsletters.

Family Engagement: The Role of School Counselors

Join Livingtree and guest Dr. Trish Hatch, a national leader in school counseling, to learn how to strengthen partnerships between school counselors and families to maximize student success.

Participants will walk away with practical suggestions for increasing engagement, best practices for supporting the needs of all students, and identify measurable student outcomes to gauge the effectiveness of collaboration between families and the school counseling department.

Please note: only a portion of this recording is available.

Parent Teacher Home Visits: Changing Mindsets and School Culture

Join Livingtree and guests Gina Martinez-Keddy, Lisa Levasseur, and Vicki Trimingham, representatives from the Parent Teacher Home Visits organization and Elk Grove Unified School District, to learn how Home Visits can change mindsets and school culture in powerful ways.

Gina, Lisa, and Vicki will discuss how teachers and parents can build meaningful connections, change how they think about each other, and how this relationship changes schools and classrooms in powerful ways.

Where to Start: Making the Shift to Family Engagement This Year

Join Livingtree and guest Dr. Steve Constantino, family engagement leader, author, and speaker, for a discussion on the first steps you should be taking to engage families this year, and what you should consider when it comes to today's family engagement practices.

The webinar will cover the most often asked question in family engagement,
shifts in family culture and where schools are falling behind, outdated methods and missed opportunities, and the 7 BIG ideas in family engagement.

Home Visits: A Powerful Way to Engage Families

Join Livingtree and guests Gina Martinez-Keddy and Lisa Levasseur, as well as Dr. Steve Constantino, for a discussion on how you can use Home Visits to improve family engagement in your district.

The webinar will cover why Home Visits are important to family engagement, what a Home Visit should encompass, how to get started and get people onboard, and key insights to making home visits successful.

From the Beginning: Creating the Necessary Conditions to Engage Every Family

Join Livingtree and guest Dr. Steve Constantino, family engagement leader, author, and speaker, to discuss building a culture in your district that is conducive to engaging every family.

The webinar covers the importance of culture as a foundation for effective family engagement practices, how to determine the present culture of your organization and its attitudes toward family engagement, assessing and addressing your district's overall awareness, culture, and beliefs of family engagement, and the key components and best practices of a healthy culture that supports and sustains family engagement.

Family Engagement 2.0: Promoting Family Efficacy with Technology

Join Livingtree and guest Dr. Steve Constantino, family engagement leader, author, and speaker, to learn about the changing “face” of families and what it means for family engagement strategies as we prepare to start a new decade in an increasingly digital world.

The webinar covers the changing “face” of families and the impactfulness of our strategies, the impact of technology on two-way communication, and the process of promoting family efficacy with the use of technology.

Practices That Promote Family Efficacy with Student Learning

Join Livingtree and guest Dr. Steve Constantino, family engagement leader, author, and speaker, for practical ideas that can be implemented in any school.

Disengaged Families: Why They Are & How to Change the Course

Join Livingtree and guest Dr. Steve Constantino, family engagement leader, author, and speaker, to discuss the reasons of why families disengage and practices that schools can use to to re-engage those families.

Engaging Families from Day 1: Getting it Right from the Start

Join Livingtree and guest Dr. Steve Constantino, family engagement leader, author, and speaker, to learn about the process of engaging families from the beginning of the school year.