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Featured Local Educational Agencies (LEAs)
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Form Details LEA/School |
Project Highlights |
Demographic Highlights |
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114 |
Quillayute Valley |
The district supported family engagement by checking out Chromebook and hotspots to families and funding a migrant family service advocate/home visitor to help families learn skills for using technology for communication and learning. |
K-12 |
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105 | Grandview | Learning Kits | The parent engagement learning kits are an alternative way to continue to support parents with their child's learning at home. Grandview School District schools have worked together in collaboration with all federal and state programs and community partners to put together Parent and Family Engagement learning kits to maximize learning supports and strengthen home-to-school connection and family engagement during distance learning. |
K-12 |
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LEA |
Form Details LEA/School |
Project Highlights |
Demographic Highlights |
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113 |
Shelton |
'Ready! for Kindergarten' workshops target parents and caregivers of children birth to five. These workshops encourage and teach new strategies to families on how to be their child's first teacher. It focuses on 27 age level targets that parents or caregivers can easily use to track how their child is progressing before entering kindergarten. |
K-12 |
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121 | Renton | Renton High School | In conjunction with the World Languages department, Renton High School planed a family night to bring students, staff and families together to celebrate Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). The school shared community resources, services and asked families for feedback on how well the school is meeting the needs of the students, how to improve services, and their student's dreams. |
9-12 |
171 | Omak | East Omak Elementary | East Omak Elementary hosts an annual Leadership Day which showcases student success throughout the building. Typically 150 guest attend, most of them parents and several community leaders. The assembly is led by students, guests get to hear from students speakers discuss how they are meeting or working toward their personal and academic goals. Check out the videos from their Leadership Day in 2019 | 2018. |
3-5 |
121 | Highline | District Wide Family Action Committee (FAC) | Superintendent Susan Enfield established a Family Action Committee (FAC), shortly after her arrival in Highline. FAC has been active for 7 years and meets quarterly. The committee has parent/family representatives from across the school district who reflect broader Highline community racially, ethically, and socioeconomically. Representation includes all school levels, multiple languages, and special programs (Special Education, English Learners, McKinney Vento, etc.) |
K-12 |
101 | Spokane | Logan Elementary |
The “Parents as Partners” project has evolved to provide parents with a more complete picture of what school looks like at Logan and how they can support their student(s) as partners with us in promoting positive school culture and academic success.
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K-6
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101 | Spokane | OnTrack Academy |
On Track Academy provides a personalized, successful school option for students who have not found success, academically and/or in social/emotional areas in the comprehensive high schools. Our vision is to prepare our students for “What’s Next” in their lives through a customized learning environment. In order to do it, we needed to partner with our students and their caregivers. We formalized our commitment to students and their families by creating a School-Parent Compact. |
9-12
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113 | Tumwater | Peter G. Schmidt Elementary |
“Sail into Summer” is a carnival-style family Literacy night the week before school is out. Families experience major book giveaways of gently used books, summer reading sign-up with the city library reps, a variety of reading logs to use with summer reading, community booths related to book character and reading experiences, free raffles, games and snow cones! |
K-5
Hispanic/Latino 13.2%
Two or More Races 12.9% White 69% English Learners 3.2%
Low Income 42.2% Students with Disabilities 11.8%
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123 | Walla Walla | District Wide Kindergarten and Early Learning Roundup |
Transitional Kindergarten will start in the fall, so Walla Walla is extending outreach to preschool families through the Kindergarten and Early Learning Roundup. Families will have the opportunity to pick up enrollment information, meet school staff, learn about educational opportunities and find resources from community partners and organizations. Everything at this event is geared around supporting families, early learners and students and families new to kindergarten, all in a one-stop-shop. |
Birth to Kindergarten
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ESD |
LEA |
Form Details LEA/School |
Project Highlights |
Demographic Highlights |
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121 |
Puyallup |
For the Love of Reading– The activity's goal was to increase access to literature, literacy activities, share instructional strategies that families could take home to continue the learning and strengthen the home to school partnership. |
K-6 |
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189 |
Arlington |
The Books on the Bus (bookmobile) project is designed as a way to bring literacy to Arlington students throughout the summer months. |
K-12 |
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121 |
Tacoma |
Senior Family Night – an opportunity for parents to come listen to college representatives, college advisors, teachers, counselor and principal about graduation requirements and scholarship opportunities. |
9-12 |
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113 |
Aberdeen |
The Be a Hero at Home family engagement initiative is designed to involve families in literacy improvement efforts. Bilingual books, activities, non-fiction high-interest readers are sent home to promote language and literacy at home. |
PK-6 |
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105 |
Selah |
Selah School District's Home Visiting Migrant Summer School includes a strong family engagement component. The goal of the program is to increase the academic skills of migrant students by modeling traditional games, technology and classroom activities that can be used by parents and caregivers to create a home learning environment that is fun and aligned with state learning standards. |
K-12 |
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121 |
Tacoma |
The Winter Festival event at Baker Middle School provided art projects, community resources, DJ, food, and a literacy table that focused on ways to support independent reading at home. This event is focus on celebration, community building, and engaging more families. The event partnered with multiple community resources – Tacoma Public Housing, Family Behavioral Health, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, and the local YMCA. |
6-8 |
ESD |
LEA |
Form Details LEA/School |
Project Highlights |
Demographic Highlights |
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171 |
Nespelem |
Parent Literacy Night–Carnival Style |
K-8 |
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171 |
Okanogan |
Book Fairs with Librarian. Family Math Night with Student Art, and Literacy Night |
K-5 |
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123 |
Kennewick |
The Kennewick School District helps its schools spread best practices and share their fabulous family and community engagement ideas with a publication called “Tried and True: A selection of best practices to boost student achievement through school, family, and community partnerships”. The booklet is divided into four goals: |
K-8 |
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121 |
Renton |
Community Cafés–includes an English Learner Café–are typically parent hosted gatherings where participants contribute to guided conversations relevant to their own community. |
K-5 |
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189 |
Sultan |
An evening opportunity for families and community members to celebrate literacy while engaging all ages and demographics in learning and exploring together. |
K-5 |
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105 |
Union Gap |
Earth Day/Science Parent and Family Night. The 6th grade Science class demonstrates 15 to 20 of their projects in the gym. |
PS-8 |
Learn From Our Own Webinar Series
Learn From Our Own webinar series is the sharing of ideas between colleagues and coming together to learn from your peers about the challenges and successes with Parent and Family Engagement (PFE) strategy implementation. Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) present one or more remote/onsite practices at the school or LEA level. This project is a collaboration between Title I, Part A, the Learning Assistance Program and the Bilingual and Migrant education program.
Do you have a strategy you would like to share and would like to be one of our presenters? Please contact us at Title 1.
ESD | Webinar Topic | Webinar Description |
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123 | Kennewick 'Going Virtual' Webinar |
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