Admissions Processes for the Emerging-Level Family Engagement Specalist

As a family engagement specialist, it’s important to clearly communicate information with families in your GEAR UP programs. This course covers communication with families around the topics of postsecondary education benefits, high school graduation requirements, and the college application and admissions processes.

This course covers:

• Communicating with families the benefits of, and need for, postsecondary education;
• School policies related to high school graduation; and
• Higher education preparation and the college admissions process.

If you want to learn how to effectively communicate information to families, this is the course for you.

Estimated time to complete the course
1.5 hours

Take the full series
This is the first of three courses on admission processes 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.