Flamboyan’s Capitol Hill Panel on Family Engagement Featured in Ed Daily

DCPS builds teacher-parent relationships with home visits

Although some parents were at first wary at the thought of school officials coming into their homes, the District of Columbia Public Schools and the Flamboyan Foundation worked with the community to get both teachers and families comfortable with the idea of home visits.

Besides decreasing absenteeism and increasing student achievement, Flamboyan President Kristin Ehrgood said family engagement is foremost about fostering “relationships between teachers and families that are about the child, to help the child.”

Speaking during a briefing on Capitol Hill, panelists said positive teacher-parent relationships are prevented by misperceptions that teachers only call parents when their children get into some trouble in school and that parents are too busy to care. Read more here.