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To empower families to play a more informed and active role in their children’s education, Georgia is working to expand Academic Parent-Teacher Teams across the state.

Learn about a standards-driven framework for engaging in instructional inquiry to enhance teaching and improve student learning and achievement schoolwide.

Parent-teacher conferences are key to boosting students’ academic success, and have long been the primary tool that schools use to promote school-family engagement. Through one case study, learn how WestEd’s Academic Parent-Teacher Teams (APTT) project put a new and effective twist on parent-teacher interaction.

We provide professional learning experiences for schools and districts to design and implement family engagement practices and strategies.

To empower families to play a more informed and active role in their children’s education, North Elementary adopted WestEd’s Academic Parent–Teacher Teams system. Through APTT, teachers provide families with targeted strategies and resources to use with their children to reinforce academic goals.

This Q&A highlights the Comprehensive Early Intervention Technical Assistance Network (CEITAN) and how they work with states to improve early intervention training and programs to support children with disabilities and their families.

Maria Paredes is a national expert in family and community engagement with a focus on advancing the quality and impact of partnerships among families, educators, and the community to support student achievement and school improvement.

Family engagement is crucial to school improvement. These three briefs illustrate how teachers and administrators can implement a successful academic family-teacher team model, create a comprehensive family engagement plan that encourages family-supported student learning, and more.

At every school there are expert teachers with the capacity to lead. Learn how the Teacher Practice Networks initiative is capitalizing on that expertise to promote powerful teacher-to-teacher professional learning across the nation.

A new WestEd study found that families using PBS KIDS digital and hands-on learning materials with their preschoolers were able to boost the children’s math achievement and better prepare them for kindergarten.