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«Back to all edWebinarsImplementing Family Engagement Strategies in the Second Semester: Root Causes, Resources, and Relationships
Thursday, December 12, 2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Presented by Kate Pechacek, K-12 Strategic Advisor, TalkingPoints; and Heather Dooley, Senior Director of Brand Marketing and Communications, TalkingPoints
Sponsored by TalkingPoints
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The second half of the school year is an opportune time to identify areas where student outcomes are at risk, investigate root causes, and build intentional partnerships with families focused on getting student outcomes back on track before the year ends.
This interactive edWebinar will offer a practical, step-by-step plan for implementing family engagement strategies to use data from the first semester to ensure a successful second one.
District leaders and school leaders of the K-12 grade levels will leave with specific, immediately actionable approaches they can put into action after the winter holiday recess. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation.
About the Presenters
Kate Pechacek currently serves as K-12 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.
