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Effective family engagement requires building trusting partnerships through strong communication.

Practice: The district partners with families to plan and improve technology planning efforts, and provides ongoing updates.

Actions that lead to partnering with families include:

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Jenks Public School District (Jenks, Oklahoma)

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The Jenks Public School District in Oklahoma serves about 12,000 students at its ten school sites. The Jenks Technology Leadership Team includes parents of neurotypical students and students with disabilities in planning meetings. The team also provides district-wide professional development to teachers on using technology tools, such as SeeSaw, for family engagement.

Jenks recently updated its Technology Plan to include family engagement goals for increasing the availability and use of technology. The new goals include:

  • developing/planing communications and feedback for parent leadership.
  • contacting parent organizaitons to strategize/plan communications with parents
  • developing multiple means of engagement to share data in communications for parent input/feedback.
  • reviewing data from parent engagement communications.
  • developing programming as appropriate in response to data findings.

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