Planning & Organizing for Family Engagement Specialists-Emerging Level

Understanding the benefits and barriers to family engagement is a key component of serving students and their families as family engagement specialists. This course will encourage you to explore framework and models of family involvement in the GEAR UP context.

This course covers:

• Benefits of and barriers to family involvement programs on student achievement; and
• Different frameworks and models of family involvement.

If you work directly with students and families and seek to enhance engagement, this course if for you.

Estimated time to complete the course
1.5 hours

Take the full series
This is the first of three courses on planning and organizing for family engagement specialists. The courses build on each other, so we recommend taking all three courses, regardless of experience. The full series should take up to 6 hours to complete and you can take the courses at your own pace.

Certificate of Completion
To receive a certificate of completion, you must complete each lesson, all surveys, and pass the assessment with an 80% or higher for which you will have two retake opportunities.

This course was developed in partnership with Learning Forward, a professional learning association for educators.