Resources for Family Engagement in Education
Channel: Hawaii Statewide Family Engagement Center
Date: 22/06/2021

Pac Rim 2021: Innovation
MELODY HALZEL and LISA-MARIE ENG
Center on Disability Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

The Hawai’i Statewide Family Engagement Center (HFEC) promotes Family Engagement as a learning strategy to improve student academic success and school improvement. From the unique tools and guides that HFEC has created, Families and Educators will learn about high impact family engagement strategies and tools to build powerful partnerships between their family, school, and community. Attendees will learn the many valuable family engagement and educational resources our center has to offer and discuss their answers to the following questions: 1) “How do you practice family engagement in education?” and 2) “What new resources would enable you to incorporate more family engagement in school or at home?” Attendees will also explore the challenges of developing and distributing accessible resources for diverse communities and be presented with practical tips and tools to overcome them.