Family Engagement Plan

Important Contacts

• Principal
• Vice Principal
• Math Teachers
• Math Coaches
• Teachers willing to volunteer
• PTO
• Custodial staff
• Local Restaurants

Strategies to communicate events/activities to parents

Strategies to Communicate

• Teachers pick two families and make a personal connection
• I can reach out to two other families that have been recommended by teachers
• Word of mouth: Talk with PTO families and encourage them to invite 5 friends

Strategies to Communicate

• Post information weekly on the school website and all school social media platforms
• Emails Parents
• Students will bring home flyers of events
• If the Principal does a weekly message to parents, the events will be included.

Strategies to Encourage Families to Attend

Strategies to Encourage Families to Attend

• Film the event
• Live stream the event for families that can’t come
• One virtual session and one in person event

Strategies to Encourage Families to Attend

• Provide food
• Provide child care
• Raffle prizes

After Analyzing the Smarter Balance test

• Analyzed the Smarter Balance test
• Increase math at home through the use of technology
• Increase family's comfort discussing math in their daily lives
• Increase math literacy
• Improve math application skills specifically within multi-step word problems

Objectives

• Improve Fact Fluency
• Increase math at home through the use of technology
• Increase family's comfort discussing math in their daily lives
• Increase math literacy
• Improve math application skills specifically within multi-step word problems

THESE OBJECTIVES WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH THREE EVENTS

Fact Fluency Game Night

Location

• Parkville School

Examples

• Go Fish: fish for pairs that add up to 10. Have student ask: “I have a 2. Do you have an 8 to make 10?” Change aces to 1 for this game and leave face cards out entirely.
• Make a Buck: logic and problem solving skill are used to discern which cards to keep and which to discard, as well as thinking through possible ways to collect $1.00.

Examples

• War:Deal two cards, a numerator and denominator, then determine whose fraction is the largest. The winner keeps all four cards, and play continues until the cards are gone.
• link to more games https://www.weareteachers.com/math-card-games/

Math Tech Night

Epic

• This ebook app can help parents search for books and stories about math concepts.

Bedtime Math App

• This app can be added to parent's bedtime routines for short easy math practice.
• Click on the Surprise section for a fun new math challenges.

Kakooma

• Free math game that can be accessed at tangmath.com

Community Scavenger Hunt

Location

• Community location that will be voted on by the school PTA
• Rainy day location would be Parkville School

How to talk math in our everyday interactions

• Prices
• Hours in a store window
• Shapes
• Estimating length/distance

Examples

• If Nia works Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for the whole shift, how many hours does she work?
• Would you measure that car with inches or feet?

Evaluate the success of the events/activities after implementation

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• Before and after surveys at events
• Instagram # so parents can post photos of actual implementation.
• Increase in test scores for families who participated.

How to use the results of my evaluations to drive future work.

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• If families don't participate in event I would reach out and conduct in view to see what would make them more likely to participate.
• Use this data when conducting future events

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