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Strong Tier 2-3 Family Engagement to Ensure Student Outcomes: 5 Spring Strategies
Wednesday, January 22, 2025 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Presented by Kate Pechacek, K12 Strategic Advisor, TalkingPoints; and Kristie Werner, Senior Product Marketing Manager, TalkingPoints
Sponsored by TalkingPoints
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This is the third 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).
District leaders learn how to unlock significant student outcome gains by building on solid Tier 1 family engagement practices related to key outcome areas including attendance, academics, and well-being. While districts have systems in place to identify struggling students and apply targeted interventions, a common challenge remains: accurately diagnosing the root causes behind different student outcomes. Typically, student support teams meet to address these challenges, but one essential voice is often missing—the family. Families are a student’s first teacher and their most significant advocate. Bringing the “student expert” into the conversation can be a game changer, ensuring that interventions are aligned with the real, underlying causes of student struggles.
View this edWebinar to learn how to leverage family engagement as a powerful support tool in Tier 2 and Tier 3 interventions, and how insights from higher tiers of support can inform improvements at Tier 1. This recorded edWebinar is designed for K-12 district leaders.
View part one: Family Engagement Unlocks the Power of Your MTSS Framework: 5 Fall Strategies
View part two: Strong Tier I Family Engagement to Ensure Student Outcomes: 5 Winter Strategies
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.
As the senior product marketing manager at TalkingPoints, Kristie Werner helps educators better understand and recognize the value and benefits of the TalkingPoints products. In addition, she helps bring the voice of customers and their needs to the TalkingPoints team. Kristie brings a diverse background to TalkingPoints, including many years of marketing, customer support, and program management experience. She has been working in EdTech since 2015, with not-for-profit organizations that are highly mission-driven.
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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.
