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Share Your Story! | Learn From Our Own Series
Contact Information
- Complete all questions and save the Effective Parent and Family Engagement form for your records.
- Email the completed form to Title I, Part A.
OSPI staff will review and select stories to be highlighted in the PFE newsletter and on the Title I, Part A PFE website.
Featured Local Educational Agencies (LEAs)
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Form Details LEA/School |
Project Highlights |
Demographic Highlights |
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Educational Service District (ESD) 105 | Community Voice: Landscape Assessment of Family and Community Engagement | Learn how ESD 105 conducted a landscape assessment and empathy interviews of the community. The assessment identifies the need to build resiliency among students, families, and communities. ESD105 is focusing on pilot programs: 1) Professional learning for staff on Family Engagement, 2) Family Engagement campaign to promote leadership skills, 3) Build a community of support around family engagement. |
K-12
Hispanic 66% White 27% ELL 75%
Low-Income 74% Migrant 11% Students with Disabilities 14% |
105 | West Valley Yakima | Kindergarten Nights, Preparing Migrant, ELL, and Monolingual Families for school | West Valley Yakima School District offers Kindergarten Readiness Nights for migrant and ELL children who have not received support to prepare them for Kindergarten. In addition, they offer a home-visiting summer program where Monolingual families learn ways to support their children at school. |
K-12 |
123 | Finley | Reset Families—PBIS and Social Emotional Learning Approach |
Reset Families breaks generational patterns of coercive family interactions and replaces these with positive social and emotional learning strategies. Parents and families receive instruction on creating a shared family vision, strengthening family connections, setting clear expectations, helping kids manage their own behavior, using restorative practices effectively, using consequences as teaching tools, and building relationships. Materials are available in both English and Spanish, please contact Finley SD for more information on how to access these documents. |
K-12 Hispanic/Latino 50.2% White 46% Multilingual Students 78% Low-Income 81.2% Migrant 7.4% Students with Disabilities 14.2% |
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Form Details LEA/School |
Project Highlights |
Demographic Highlights |
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Quillayute Valley |
The district supported family engagement by checking out Chromebooks and hotspots to families and funding a migrant family service advocate/home visits to help families learn skills for using technology for communication and learning. |
K-12 |
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105 | Grandview | Learning Kits | The parent engagement learning kits are an alternative way to continue to support parents with their child's learning at home. Grandview School District schools have worked together in collaboration with all federal and state programs and community partners to put together Parent and Family Engagement learning kits to maximize learning support and strengthen home-to-school connection and family engagement during distance learning. |
K-12 |
189 | Mount Vernon | Parent Academy | Each year Mount Vernon School District seeks feedback from parents and staff to refine and enhance the experience and ensure that it is meeting the needs of families. The Parent Academy model is six sessions of evening education classes taught to parents by parent-teachers that instill leadership principles to families. Families are empowered to become advocates for themselves, their children, and their communities as they engage in conversations centered on student achievement and community engagement. |
K-12 |
Learn From Our Own Webinar Series
Learn From Our Own webinar series is the sharing of best practices between colleagues. You will learn from your peers about the challenges and successes with Parent and Family Engagement (PFE) implementation. Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) present practices at the school or LEA level. This project is a collaboration between Title I, Part A, the Learning Assistance Program, and the Bilingual and Migrant education program.
Do you have a strategy you would like to share and would like to be one of our presenters? Please contact us at Title 1.
Note: Webinars will be posted for the current year only, and then will be archived. If you are looking for prior year’s recordings, please contact title1a@k12.wa.us.
ESD/Organization | Webinar Topic |
Webinar Description |
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ESD 105
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Landscape Assessment of Family Community Engagement |
Learn about the Yakima Valley Landscape Assessment. The assessment identified three challenges: technology, ineffective communication, and inequity. The assessment was done in collaboration with the National Flamboyant Fellowship, West Valley School District, La Casa Hogar, and Yakima School District. The presentation will focus on the pilot programs implemented to address these challenges. Landscape Assessment of Family Community Engagement PowerPoint |
ESD 105 | Building Capacity for Parent Leaders–Wahluke Migrant Core Parent Advisory Council PAC |
This session focuses on how to build capacity within parent leaders in the district and how to engage them in the decision-making process within your district. At the end of this session you will understand the steps we took to grow parent leaders within our Migrant program and take away ideas on how you could apply this to your district/program. |
ESD 123 | Solidarity Driven Co-Design |
Learn from Dr. Omar Escalera at Pasco School District how to:
Solidarity Driven Co-Design PowerPoint |
Ohio Statewide Family Engagement Center |
This webinar explores a multi-tiered approach to PFE strategies, including the indicators for intervention and increased support and the roles for families. Participants will create a plan for implementing a multi-tiered approach to PFE in their programs and practices aligned with goals for student growth and learning. Ohio Statewide Family Engagement Center Resources. Presenters:
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ESD 105 |
Voicing Culture Through Family Engagement | Familias Participando y Respondiendo al Arte Cultural |
In this presentation, Selah School District demonstrates the importance of an integral program where families' voices count. Their goal is to strengthen families and to deliver opportunities to learn, participate, and gain a better perspective of how the school district identifies gaps in the program and areas of improvement. The techniques and strategies mentioned in this presentation apply to families of different backgrounds and will show how to break down barriers to parent participation. This presentation is in Spanish with closed captioning in English. |
ESD | Webinar Topic | Webinar Description |
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123 | Kennewick 'Going Virtual' |
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105 | West Valley Yakima 'Protective Factors' |
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105 | Grandview 'Mitigating Learning Loss with Summer Programs |
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121 | Steilacoom Historical 'Activating Effective Virtual Outreach Strategies With Families' |
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189 | Mount Vernon 'Parent Academy Model' |
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171 | Eastmont SD 'Padres Informados | Informed Parents' |
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