Communication – Addressing the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015 introduced many updates regarding family engagement. Anne T. Henderson of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform released an excellent brief detailing the updates. LivingTree…
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Guiding Teachers through Family Engagement
Families join our teachers from a variety of circumstances and cultures. Moving beyond beginning of school introductions to partnership takes planning and effort. True family engagement is a year long…
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Effective Engagement Principles
The National Association for the Education of Young Children outlines six key principles used by exemplary programs. They've found that common practices lead to successful family engagement. These principles are…
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Harvard Teaching Cases
The Harvard family research project has put years of research into developing effective family engagement frameworks and teaching case studies. These case studies are a great resource for working with your…
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Broadening Family Engagement
We're delighted to share the following from guest blogger, Eden Segal. Family engagement in schools is based on relationships How do you recruit families? Invite and build relationships. Communication is…
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Five Steps to Engaging in the New School Year
Over the last four years, our team has had the opportunity to work with schools and districts around the United States and world to increase parent engagement. We've seen a…
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There's a PLATFORM for that "School Communication"
There's an app for that. In 2016 there's an app (or a dozen) for every need and / or want we can imagine. Education technology is no different. Every week…
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Collective Voice
Our mission at LivingTree is to build trust and partnership between schools, families, and communities. Why is this so important to us? Because we're educators and parents ourselves and parent…
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Ten Favorite Things
"We need to make the positives so loud that the negatives are almost impossible to hear." George Curous - TCEA 2016 2016 is a GREAT year to be part of…
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