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What Do the Five Roles Look Like in Practice?

At Flamboyan, we have seen, and research shows, that families play Five Essential Roles in their children’s education. All families deserve access to the information and connections they need to play these roles well. We also recognize that family engagement is the responsibility of every member of a school system – from families to teachers to system leaders.
January 21, 2026 • Family Engagement

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Quick Guide to Building Strong Relationships

Our Quick Guide to Building Strong Relationships is designed to help educators foster meaningful connections with students and their families right from the beginning. Building these relationships is crucial, as they form the foundation for a positive and collaborative learning environment, leading to student academic success. This is a REAL Family Engagement Catalyzed by Flamboyan Foundation resource.
August 12, 2024 • Family Engagement

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Quick Guide to Ongoing Communication

At Flamboyan, educators often tell us that they need digestible, actionable strategies to grow their family engagement practice.  That’s why we’re excited to share our newest product, the Quick Guide to Ongoing Communication! This guide highlights the key components of Ongoing Communication that educators should consider, and tips on how to incorporate these components into their day-to-day...
April 19, 2024 • Family Engagement

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Quick Guide to Academic Partnering

Academic Partnering (AP) is a core component of REAL Family Engagement, the approach we champion to support strong school-family partnerships. Whether it’s during a parent-teacher conference, an APTT or Academic Parent-Teacher Team meeting, a student-led conference, or something else, partnering with families is an opportunity for you to share power, build or sustain trusting relationships, and support student...
February 22, 2024 • Family Engagement

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Academic Partnering: Creating Meaningful Experiences with Families

Academic partnering is a core component of REAL Family Engagement, the approach we champion to support strong school-family partnerships. Whether it’s during a parent-teacher conference, an APTT or Academic Parent-Teacher Team meeting, a student-led conference, or something else, partnering with families is an opportunity for you to share power, build or sustain trusting relationships, and ultimately support...
November 16, 2022 • Family Engagement

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Communicating with Families in Different Contexts

Communication between families and educators is essential to supporting student needs, building trust with families, and acting as true partners. You will inevitably have tough conversations about behavior, attendance, or academics as an educator. Building strong relationships with families via regular communications will make these conversations solutions-oriented and productive. Use this resource to help you...
November 16, 2022 • Family Engagement

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Preparing for Effective Conferences with Families

When educators and families act as equal partners in collaboration and decision-making, students can do their best academically, socially, and emotionally. Conferences should be a two-way dialogue between parents and teachers. When preparing for conferences with families, you want to ensure that you give parents the information and resources they need to support their child’s success. Use this resource to help you...
November 16, 2022 • Family Engagement

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The Five Roles in Action

Families play Five Essential Roles in their children’s education: communicating high expectations, monitoring their child’s performance, supporting learning at home, guiding their child’s education, and advocating for their child. And while educators are experts in teaching and pedagogy, families are experts on their children. Each group has something to learn from the other to best support students’...
November 16, 2022 • Family Engagement

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Challenging Assumptions Reflection Tool

Examining our beliefs about families is a critical component of REAL Family Engagement. When educators operate with asset-based beliefs about families, they are more likely to build successful academic partnerships with families. Conversely, when educators operate with deficit-based beliefs about families, they are more likely to limit communication and information sharing, thus limiting a families’ ability to...
November 16, 2022 • Family Engagement

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Family + Student Wellness Check-In

No matter who you are or where you live, we are all feeling this global crisis in difficult and unique ways. At Flamboyan, we know that educators and families have felt the challenge of maintaining strong relationships to support student success in a time of physical and social distancing. We also know that these strong relationships are key to not just supporting students, but supporting one another through anxiety...
November 16, 2022 • Family Engagement

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Strategies to Engage Unreached Families

As schools have pivoted into remote learning modalities during the COVID-19 pandemic, a key priority of school communities has been ensuring that all families are reached. This outreach ensures that every family has access to the resources needed to support their child’s learning and that they have the supports to sustain their household’s wellness - physically, emotionally, mentally, and economically - during...
November 16, 2022 • Family Engagement
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