A growing body of evidence suggests that family engagement matters for student success. Research shows that family engagement improves college readiness, student achievement, and social skills. Furthermore, an increasing number of innovative approaches to education leverage and connect the many settings and times in which student learn and grow to create seamless complementary learning systems that place families as core partners in the learning process.
As this research base and local, state, and national policies and models converge in support of family engagement, there is a growing demand to provide practical tools that reflect the current state of the field. This set of parent–teacher conference tip sheets provides administrators, educators, and families with ideas and strategies that honor their shared responsibility in supporting family engagement.
Family engagement does not happen in a vacuum. Rather, it takes the committed actions of both families and college working together—through parent–teacher conferences as well as other forms of engagement—to support student success. Through this shared responsibility, colleges reach out to and engage families in meaningful ways, and, similarly, families do their part to actively support their student's learning and development. These three tip sheets—for principals, teachers, and parents—can help ensure that parent–teacher conferences achieve their maximum potential by providing guidance that reflects each person’s role and responsibility in promoting productive home–college communication. Designed to be used as a set, the tip sheets combine consistent information with targeted suggestions, so that parents and educators enter into conferences with shared expectations and an increased ability to work together to improve student'seducational outcomes.
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