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Strong Tier I Family Engagement to Ensure Student Outcomes: 5 Winter Strategies
Thursday, October 10, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT
Presented by Kate Pechacek, K12 Strategic Advisor, TalkingPoints; and Heather Dooley, Senior Director of Brand Marketing and Communications, TalkingPoints
Sponsored by TalkingPoints
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This is the second in a three-part series about a groundbreaking approach that deploys family engagement as an effective intervention itself within a Multi-Tiered System of Supports rather than treating family engagement as a pillar within the framework. Family engagement is twice as likely to predict student success as a family’s socioeconomic status (Mapp & Henderson, 2002).
In this edWebinar, district leaders will learn how to unlock significant student outcome gains by applying family engagement as a high-leverage strategy rather than a stand-alone initiative. The fall months are a key time to ensure strong Tier I universal family engagement supports are in place. With any student support, you can not intervene your way out of insufficient Tier I. The same is true for family engagement as a student-outcomes-improving support. Effective family engagement is needed now more than ever to address the challenges schools are facing—teacher retention, improved attendance, and the well-being of students, staff, and families, to name a few.
Join us to learn how to leverage a sometimes overlooked, but extremely powerful, student support by understanding strong Tier I family engagement. This edWebinar will be of particular interest to K-12 district leaders. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.
View part one: Family Engagement Unlocks the Power of Your MTSS Framework: 5 Fall Strategies
Stay tuned for information about our spring edWebinar, completing our three-part series.
About the Presenters
Kate Pechacek currently serves as K12 Strategic Advisor to systems-improving edtech organizations and school districts, including TalkingPoints, and is the founder and CEO of OpendoorsEd. Prior to founding OpendoorsEd, Kate served as Head of Impact at TalkingPoints, one of several roles she has held in education technology over the last nine years. She began her nearly 30-year career in education as a secondary math teacher. In addition to 15 years as a teacher, Kate has served in districts nationwide, holding multiple site and district leadership roles in curriculum, instruction, assessment, and MTSS. She is passionate about ensuring equity, disrupting predictability, and narrowing opportunity gaps.
Heather Dooley serves as TalkingPoints’ Senior Director of Brand Marketing and Communications. She is inspired by how education can empower students to reach their potential and help build productive healthy communities. As a public school parent in a diverse district, she’s seen how fostering positive connections between schools and families can make a big difference in student learning and the important role that access and inclusion play in building these relationships. Heather has spent most of her career in digital marketing, including nearly a decade working in the nonprofit education sector to advance the adoption of effective school practices and help parents understand and use education data.
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TalkingPoints is an edtech nonprofit dedicated to driving student success by unlocking the power of effective family-school partnerships. TalkingPoints’ Universal Family Engagement platform offers capacity-building guidance, built-in time-saving tools, and universally accessible two-way communication in over 150 languages. This unique approach eliminates barriers such as language, time constraints, mindsets, and capacity issues, fostering strong family engagement. To learn more, please visit www.talkingpts.org.
