Monday, June 23, 2025
Family & Community Engagement
Families and communities are active partners and key collaborators in achieving the goal of success for every learner.
Defining Elements:
- Create a welcoming environment
- Be respectful of families’ home cultures, values, and languages.
- Recognize families as first teachers of and foremost experts on their child.
- Include families as meaningful participants in school-level decision making
- Seek out family perspectives through two-way communication, especially from underserved populations
- Partner authentically in finding solutions and making decisions that impact their child’s learning.
- Empower families through respectful relationships, information and resources, and by connecting families with community assets
- Partner with community agencies to create more comprehensive and accessible supports for learners and families, beyond the limits of the school day and school year.
- Build cultural and linguistic bridges between families and the system
Resources
Coming Soon!
For more support with the WiMLSS Framework click here.
