A Proven Model: Create Strong Effective Family Engagement in a Time of Transition & Change

Wednesday February 10, 2021
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Workshop 1

Family Engagement is critical to student success now more than ever! Parenting Partners is a comprehensive model for effectively engaging parents that has produced 200,000+ Title I parent leaders. Learn to create strong Family-School partnerships utilizing our highly relational Virtual and In-person workshops. This proven approach boosts student achievement using capacity-building, research-based training and curriculum. Highly engaging, the session will share best practices from districts nationally and demonstrate practical applications of current research (Dual Capacity-Building Framework, etc.). Participants will gain hands-on experience through interactive role-plays and live demonstrations. Our bilingual, strengths-based curriculum engages families from diverse backgrounds. The TOT, site-based model produces sustainability. Entertaining, interactive and practical, this session provides Key Strategies and Practical Tools to build meaningful, effective Family-School partnerships

Presenters
Patty Bunker

Patty Bunker is Family Leadership's founder and National Director for Family School Partnerships.. She is the co-author along with her husband of the Parenting Partners curriculum and TOT training model. She has trained parents and educators in over 200 districts across the nation in positive, effective parent engagement, producing 200,000+Title I parent leaders. She's a family counselor, national conference workshop and keynote speaker, university professor, and author of two best-selling parent engagement books
Katie Harri

Katie Harri has trained and supported hundreds of schools in building strong, effective family engagement through the Parenting Partners process. Katie is an expert in strengths-based leadership development. She is a certified Gallup Strengths Finder Coach, and holds a Masters degree in Family and Child Counseling. She is a popular workshop and conference presenter
Karen Williams

Karen Williams has over 30 years of experience working as an educator. She has been a classroom teacher, a coordinator of Title I Parenting and Family Literacy programs in Charleston, SC and the Title I Parent Involvement Education Associate for the South Carolina State Department of Education. She now serves as a Title I consultant and a trainer to school districts nationally for Parenting Partners. Karen lives in Walterboro, South Carolina and holds her Master’s degree in Curriculum & Instruction
type:
Workshop
theme:
leadership
audience:
building leaders
tags:
school improvement