Featured Resources

Family Listening Guide

Have you ever prepared an excellent at-home activity that families have never used? Have you planned a fun family night, and no one showed up? Do you know why?

Family School Partnerships in the Secondary Grades

In middle and high school, strong family-school partnerships are built when educators, families, and students have trusting relationships and ongoing collaboration around student learning and well-being.

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Strengthening School Partnerships: Building Trust with Families offers practical strategies and thoughtful discussion prompts to help educators foster meaningful relationships with students' families.

Tips for Addressing Challenges with Families provides helpful tips and planning questions to help teachers discuss the challenges their students are facing.

Co-Plan Family-School Conferences offers an example of pre- and post- conference surveys teachers can distribute to families to gather feedback. You can also download a copy of our Sample Family Conference Agenda & Template!

The Communication Reflection Tool provides a structure for educators to think about the frequency and quality of their outreach to families in their class.

Family School Partnerships in the Secondary Grades explores the role students can play in communicating about their successes and challenges at school.

The Family Listening Guide supports teachers in conducting relationship-building interviews with families.

[WEBINAR] Standing in the Gap

[WEBINAR] Standing in the Gap
[WEBINAR] Family-School Partnership Opportunity in Kansas City

[WEBINAR] Family-School Partnership Opportunity in Kansas City

Empowering Change:

Resources for Effective Family-School Partnerships

“The Coaction Collective's Standing in the Gap panel created an important space to both explore the ways in which school-family partnership has fallen short in the past and map out what a reimagined equity-driven approach to collaboration looks like and sounds like. I'm excited for additional opportunities to work with the thoughtful and creative Coco team."

— Madeline Sims, CPRL

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