1. From Practical to Powerful
Creating a Sustained and Sustainable Family Engagement Model

2. Why Think Deeply About Family Education?
Families engage in their children’s development and education in a variety of ways.
Recognizing and respecting the many ways that families support the learning and development of children and youth, both at home and in formal learning environments, is critical to the success of school-based family engagement practices.
Why Think Deeply About Family Education?

3. A Snapshot of the Gesherim Family Engagement Program at Temple Sholom…

4. Year-long Parent and Child Journey to Bar/Bat Mitzvah
6th grade Families

5. Steps Along the Journey…
Torah – Text to Self Connections
Spirituality -- How Do I Connect?
Making a Difference!
How Does Our Family Identify?
Bar/Bat Mitzvah…How Do I Connect?

6. Steps Along the Journey…
Shabbat Our Way!
Jewish History Journey
Personal Stories & Family History!
Torah Project Presentation***
6th Grade Aliyah Ceremony?

7. Torah Project Presentations…

8. Designing YOUR Own Family Engagement Model…

9. Step 1

10. WHO who is your target population?
Step 2

11. WHAT…
Step 3

12. Goals…
Empower parents to co-construct learning for their children

13. Goals…
Support parent and child to be equally engaged!

14. Goals…
Offer “deep” exploration aligned to a big Jewish idea

15. Goals…
Build relationships between families and within families… with intentionality!

16. What are your BIG Content Goals?

17. What Do You Know About the People in Your Target Population?

18. …and WHY is it important?

19. With this Information in Your Pocket…
Begin to think about how you might add to and elevate their past experiences
Generate content that is deeply relevant to people’s lives...that is valuable to them.
Create opportunities that are personally significant, worthy of their time, and embedded in their interests.
The program you build should BE RELEVANT, MEANINGFUL, SACRED

20. WHEN Will the Learning Happen?

21. WHERE Will the Learning Happen?

22. How Will You Measure Success?