Family Engagement Webinars

The following recordings were part of a series of trainings that took place during the 2016-2017 school year.

March 23, 2017

The recordings from this webinar are broken into sections by the 6 Elements of Family Engagement. Please view these recordings to gain an understanding of how to increase family engagement in your schools. 
Speakers Included: 
    • Devon Minch, Ph.D., NCSP. Florida's Positive Behavior Support: Multi-Tiered Systems of Support. 
    • Meghan McCarthy, PFS Coordinator/Social Worker. Churchville School, Elmhurst SD. 

January 27, 2017

December 8, 2016

        Tools for Family

        Family-School Partnership Resources

                        The Family Engagement Tool's two-year cycle provides a simple, repeatable process for evaluating current family engagement practices. Because                 school communities continually change, periodic examination of current practices and their outcomes provides insights for teams to make                             informed decisions to alter strategies that better meet the needs of your changing school community.

        This video for parents introduces parents to the use of problem-solving and how it may affect their child in the context of school-wide implementation of a multi-tiered system of supports, often still referred to as RtI.
        Barbara J. Boone, PhD and Sarah L. Smith, MA 
        For the Office for Exceptional Children, Ohio Department of Education 
        April 24, 2015
        Child and Family Center, University of Oregon
        C.S. Porter Middle School, Missoula, MT

        Research Publications & Presentations

        Weist, M. D., Garbacz, S. A., Lane, K. L., & Kincaid, D. (2017). Aligning and integrating family engagement in Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS): Concepts and strategies for families and schools in key contexts. Center for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (funded by the Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education). Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon Press. 
        Lucille Eber and Carol Ewen
        19th Annual School Mental Health Conference
        September 2014
        Elizabeth A. Stormshack, Kathryn Margolis, Cindy Huang, and Thomas J. Dishion
        Handbook of Implementation Science for Psychology in Education
        November 2012
        Gregory M. Fosco, Thomas J. Dishion, Elizabeth A. Stormshak
        APA addiction syndrome handbook, Vol. 2: Recovery, prevention, and other issues. APA handbooks in psychology., (pp. 225-245). Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association, vii, 527 pp