ABCs of a School Meeting is a self-paced training for educators and families which covers:

Why family involvement matters
Types of school meetings
How to prepare
The importance of effective communication
Techniques to build partnership with your child’s team

The goal of the training is to enable families, teachers and students to have knowledge of the different kinds of school meetings related to disabilities. The takeaway is to look for the best ways to expand communication and build a team with the school and family to support the student with disabilities.

 Purpose:This resource guides leadership teams into self-assessing  their support and practices for fostering family engagement.Description:Based on evidence, teams rate practices in seven core principles of family engagement:  Welcoming Environment, Effective Two-way Communication, Supporting the Success of Students, Sharing Power and Responsibility, Partnering with the Community, Providing Equity and Access and Ensuring Sustainability.  A summary provides opportunities to analyze findings and plan for next steps.

Resources with an emphasis on play, child development, belonging and inclusion, and social and emotional learning, grades K-3. 

Use this Community of Practice webinar to create the conditions for successful family engagement in career readiness.

The Wisconsin State Reading Association's Families and Literacy Committee, comprised of educators from throughout Wisconsin, creates resources to honor the family's important role in the literacy development of young children.
WSRA offers a monthly literacy calendar with activities for families.
In addition, WSRA has videos that families can view to better understand how to read to and with young children and how to talk with young children.