Connecting with parents of various ethnic, socioeconomic, or cultural backgrounds can be challenging for educators. This invaluable book offers strategies that will transform the experience for your students and their families, and lead to sustainable success. Through the author's perspective as a parent, counselor, and advisor to families at risk, readers will discover
• A step-by-step approach to family engagement developed for K-12 educators working in high-poverty schools with diverse populations
• Complete how-to's for creating and carrying out a family engagement plan
• Tools including a Parent Meeting Agenda, a Parent Empathy Map, an Educator Needs Assessment, and more
