Family Engagement PD with Dr. Steve Constantino

One Day Training, Face-to-Face with Dr. Steve Constantino

School or district family engagement teams are encouraged to attend together, but single district participants are also allowed.

Dr. Constantino's Case Studies to Engage Every Family book is included with your registration, but the five principles are really laid out in depth in his Engage Every Family book. If you don't have a copy yet, we encourage you to order one under the Add-Ons tab on the Tickets page. All book orders will be available to you upon check-in at the training in Bismarck.

About Dr. Steve Constantino

At its core, The Five Simple Principles to Engage Every Family Process supports schools and districts in demonstrating progress toward student learning goals through effective and targeted family engagement practice.

Family engagement increases student achievement, but how do schools connect with families who don’t participate yet? Educators can easily become frustrated trying to reach the disconnected and often fall back to engaging the already engaged. Can every family be engaged in the learning lives of their children?

Dr. Steve Constantino, known for his experience and sound teaching on family engagement, knows they can and promises far more than easy answers and theory to make it so. His books and professional development will show how to bring about real shifts in culture through process, reflection, and diligent effort. Simple logic models and best practice case studies will reveal how and where family engagement breaks down, and how to create a truly inviting culture for successful community and family partnerships.

Agenda:

Morning Session 8:30a - 12p

Principle #1: Creating a Culture to Engage Every Family

● Learn the important role organizational culture plays in enhancing authentic family engagement.

● Understand how to measure and change the culture of an organization.

● Create a definition of family engagement that reflects its role in improving student learning experiences.

● Learn and remove cultural barriers to engaging every family.

● Understand the concept of implicit bias and the role it plays in family disengagement.

● Understand how families become disengaged, disenfranchised, and/or marginalized and how to reverse the cycle.

● Learn why disengagement exists in your own regions, districts, and schools.

Lunch Break 12p - 1p

Afternoon Session 1p - 3:30p

Building and Sustaining Family Efficacy: The Link to Better Learning

● Learn and apply the basic tenets of self-efficacy research and practice.

● Understand what family efficacy is and how it relates to student learning.

● Learn and design learning opportunities that promote family efficacy.

● Measure the degree of efficacy presently in your own organization and how to enhance it.

Logistics

• This full-day training will be held at the Bismarck Public Schools Career Academy at 1221 College Dr, Bismarck.
• Catering will not be available during the event, so please bring your coffee, water bottle, soda, and snacks if you will need them during the day.
• We will have limited control over room temperature, so we recommend dressing in layers for your continued comfort.
• We will begin promptly at 8:30am, so please allow yourself time to check-in and get settled before we begin.
• There will be a 60-minute lunch break to provide ample time to go out and return for the afternoon session.
• The afternoon session will end at 3:30pm and we must vacate the room no later than 4pm as there is another event in the space later in the evening.

Host or Publisher Dept. of Public Instruction