VIDBE-Q Volume 66 Issue 4
Strategy 5: Reflect and Share Best Practices with Colleagues and School.
Identifying best practices for involving families with learning is a great next
step and allows you as an educator to reflect on strategies that worked and the
circumstances that supported positive family involvement. You also want to
consider expanding the home and school collaboration from the classroom to the
entire school.
To do. First, make time to review resources and strategies that were utilized
by families for supporting their child. You will want to review parent and student
feedback about strategies and resources they used at home and why. I also
recommend looking at resources and strategies that families did not use at home
and consider challenges that families may have faced with access, content, or
accessibility. Next, reflect on the various opportunities your provided for families
to engage in person or virtually with their child and/or you at school. Examine
what experiences promoted the most family involvement and why, and then look at
what roadblocks families may have faced that hindered their involvement in certain
events. Then, set goals for what you would like to accomplish in the future for
strengthening current home and school collaborations and continue to develop new
ones with future students and their families, as well as those families that you were
unable to engage with the previous year. Lastly, find time to share your best
practices, challenges, and future goals with your colleagues and administration to
