Elevate your family engagement practices with sustained professional learning grounded in the latest research.
Professional Development
Family, School & Community Engagement
Professional Development
Family, School & Community Engagement
Elevate your family engagement practices with sustained professional learning grounded in the latest research.
A Systemic Approach to Home-School Partnerships
From a district-wide assessment to intensive workshops, our expert-led professional learning helps your team leverage family engagement as a powerful instructional strategy.
Family Engagement Assessment
Assess your current practices.
Asynchronous Master Classes
Learn at your own pace.
Training for Educators, Leaders, & School-Based Teams
Reframe and redesign practices.
Implementation Support
Implement with clarity and confidence.
Assess Your Engagement Capacity
The Scholastic Family Engagement Assessment measures your capacity to build effective family-school partnerships. Our experts review your current practice and deliver a data-rich report with recommendations in four areas:
WELCOMING
From the parking lot to the front lobby, how welcome are families in your school?
COMMUNICATION
How frequent, clear, and inviting is your school’s communication with families?
INFORMATION
Are families receiving the information they need to support their child’s learning?
EMPOWERMENT
How well do you empower families to be active and equal partners in their child's education?
Meet Dr. Karen L. Mapp
Karen L. Mapp, Ed.D., is a professor of practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is one of the visionaries behind the Dual Capacity-Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships and is the author and coauthor of several books on family engagement and its role in student achievement.
The Dr. Karen L. Mapp Workshop Series
Build your team’s family engagement capacity with a comprehensive 3-day workshop series created in partnership with Dr. Karen L. Mapp of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Session 1: Reframing Family Engagement
This session provides foundational family engagement training to district and school teams. We’ll introduce the research and practices that lead to effective family engagement.
Session 2: Engaging Families in Learning Throughout the Year
This session will help your school team design and implement a yearlong plan for family engagement by evaluating your recent outreach initiatives and determining the next steps to best serve your students.
Session 3: Redesigning Family Engagement Events
This session will introduce you to the Dual-Capacity Framework through a series of expert-guided interactive exercises. We’ll explore how to integrate the framework’s five process conditions and effective practices into any family engagement event.
"There is no doubt that when family engagement is developed in true partnership, it has the ability to positively impact students’ academic, social, and emotional growth."
—Kelli Cedo, Virginia Beach Public Schools
NEW! Family and Community Engagement Master Classes
Learn to build stronger connections on your schedule. Six self-paced courses help you master building trust, boosting communication, and strengthening school-home connections.
Program Implementation Training
If you're using My Books Every Day, R.E.A.L., or Read and Rise, these sessions are a must! Participants will learn about the research behind the programs and how to use them to cultivate and sustain strong family-school partnerships.
Getting Started with My Books Every Day: Fostering Literacy-Rich Home Environments
Full-Day, In-Person | Flexible, Virtual Options Available | Up to 30 Participants
Discover effective strategies for leveraging the high-quality titles and hands-on activity sets from the My Books Every Day program.
Getting Started with R.E.A.L.: Promoting Literacy Through Mentorship
Full-Day, In-Person | Flexible, Virtual Options Available | Up to 30 Participants
Prepare step-by-step plans for recruiting and celebrating mentors, training teachers and families, and ensuring children’s academic success through interactive read-alouds and book discussions.
Getting Started with Read and Rise: Cultivating Literacy-Rich Learning Communities
Full-Day, In-Person | Flexible, Virtual Options Available | Up to 30 Participants
Learn about the latest research and how to foster the valuable assets that families bring to educational spaces!
Professional Learning Sessions
For educators, administrators, parent coordinators, and family engagement staff. These sessions build the capacity of every team member to cultivate and sustain positive family-school relationships.
Foundations of Family Engagement
Full‑Day | In-Person or Virtual | Participants: PreK–12 administrators, teachers, and parent coordinators
In this session, we’ll break down the research and the conditions that must be present in your school to provide a solid foundation for effective family outreach.
Effective Practices to Welcome All Families
Full‑Day | In-Person or Virtual | Participants: PreK–12 district leaders, principals, teachers, and support staff
In this session, we’ll explore how to welcome families into your school and have dialogue that empowers them to become active participants in their children’s education.
Implementing Capacity-Building Literacy Events
Full‑Day | In-Person or Virtual | Participants: PreK–5 directors of instruction, literacy consultants, administrators, and teachers
In this comprehensive two-part session, participants will learn how to transform a traditional literacy night into a capacity-building literacy event for families.
Reaching All Families
Full‑Day | In-Person or Virtual | Participants: PreK–12 district leaders, principals, teachers, and support staff
Learn how to individualize your approach to family engagement and co-construct learning experiences that celebrate every family’s unique strengths.
Leading Family Engagement Initiatives for Parent Coordinators and Family Engagement Staff
2 Full Days | In-Person | Participants: PreK–12 parent coordinators, family coaches, family engagement staff, and administrators
Discover new ways to transform your support staff into confident family coaches focused on elevating student achievement.
Increasing Student Attendance through Effective Home-School Partnership Practices
Full‑Day | In-Person or Virtual | Participants: PreK–12 district leaders, principals, teachers, parent coordinators, and family engagement staff
This session focuses on addressing chronic absenteeism by implementing a tiered system of family support and proven strategies for helping students to attend school regularly.
Consultative Planning
Work with a specialist to develop a shared vision, define your family engagement mission, and align on core beliefs. An ongoing partnership drives meaningful change and transforms practice.
Ready to Elevate Your Family Engagement Practices?
