Family Engagement

A Framework for Student, Family, and Community Success

Transformative Family Engagement

A Vision for Meeting the Needs of Today’s Families

Effective Family Engagement

What Family Engagement Can Look Like!

Training
6 Standards of Family Engagement

 

The Six Standards of Family Engagement – CAPTA

Family Engagement is a shared effort of families, schools, and community leaders to advance programs, practices, and policies that empower every parent/legal guardian to make their child’s potential a reality.

Our Advocacy Wish List & Vision
  • Our Vision: To build trusting relational partnerships with our schools (teachers, staff, administrators) to support our students with the best educational experience we can envision at IUSD. You can’t have one without the other.
  • Our Wish List for IUSD:
    • Providing staff/administrators readily available access to professional interpreters and translators when needed
    • Holding schools accountable for actually using interpreting and translation services provided. U.S. Department of Justice’s view of translation/interpreting for parents, read more . CA Ed Code 48985
    • Updating the communication platform as well as setting clear policies, expectations of all stakeholders, and using best practices in content and delivery
    • Including more disaggregated data in the LCAP metrics for family engagement –telling of truer story about our marginalized or under represented family groups
    • Improving School Site Council practices with training for all participants (shared data, goals, accountability, transparency, etc.)
    • Training for staff/administrators on family engagement practices and using the Dual-Capacity Framework as an equity tool.  Special emphasis and work needs to be done at the middle school level where old paradigms of parent/guardian involvement dropping off still exist today even though a significant amount of data shows this may be where even more engagement needs to happen since our children’s brains are again developing very rapidly at this stage of their life
Dual Capacity-Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships
  • Dual Capacity for Family Engagement – Educators’ and Families’ path to true family engagement only works when both understand and agree upon the goals and capacity outcomes
Engage in Your Child's Success!
Male Engagement
Parenting Resources

2021-22 Year in Review

  • National Parental Involvement Day is held on November 18, 2021
  • IUCPTA partners with IUSD for a Family Engagement Webinar for the Chinese Community hosted by the South Coast Chinese Cultural Center
    >view slides
  • Cool Block Program  CoolBlock.org (see video below). If interested in becoming a Cool Block Leader of a team, complete this form and if they ask who referred you, tell them IUCPTA Family Engagement.
  • Strides Towards Social Justice at IUSD Webinar
    Implementation of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Practices Throughout IUSD
    Wednesday, April 7th, 2021 7-8PM
    >Recording
  • The SPOTLIGHT Monthly Newsletter – Each month look for tips on engaging your families and reading about success stories and happenings at a featured school. View Archives and/or Subscribe here.
  • Our Current Book List
    >Beyond the Bake Sale – Henderson, Mapp, Johnson, and Davies
    >Middle School Matters by Phyllis L. Fagell

Always looking for new ideas on ways to make Family Engagement more equitable, accessible, and effective. Please share your thoughts & suggestions with us!

IUSD Parent/Guardian Workshops

Each month, IUSD Family Engagement offers very informative and timely workshops/webinars in various languages for IUSD families.  Take advantage of the newcomer sessions to help welcome new families to the school district.