Hawai'i Statewide Family Engagement Center
Our purpose is to implement high impact family engagement strategies, programming and policies that build powerful partnerships among family, school, and community. We promote Family Engagement as a learning and equity strategy to improve student academic success and school improvement.
Fall 2024
Introduction to Family Engagement: The Link to Improving Student Achievement
and Two Other Courses
Registration now open for 3 online courses
Introduction to Family Engagement
Introduction to Family Engagement is a free, self-paced, online, asynchronous course for educators and families developed by the Hawai‛i Statewide Family Engagement Center. Participants will be able to identify and adopt evidence-based family engagement practices that support their school’s current curriculum (within the unique Hawaiian context of the Nā Hopena A‛o Framework) in assessing and teaching ALL students, including those from culturally and linguistically diverse populations.
Earn a Certificate by completing the following:
- Five self-paced modules
- Four multiple choice quizzes
- One assignment
- Post-course survey
Engaging Families in Early Childhood Education
Learn strategies to empower parents as their child’s first teacher! This course includes 5 modules, 4 quizzes, 1 project, and a certificate upon completion.
Perfect for enhancing your partnership with families of young children.
Family Engagement: Support Your Child's Reading at Home
This evidence-based course focuses on promoting foundational reading skills. Complete 5 modules, 5 quizzes, 5 discussion boards, and earn a certificate.
Ideal for parents and educators wanting to foster reading success at home!
Don’t miss out on these incredible opportunities to support your child’s education and development. Register today by clicking on the corresponding link for each course!
What is Family Engagement?
Our center has adopted the Dual Capacity-Building Framework and the National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement (NAFSCE) definition of family engagement:
- Family engagement is a shared responsibility in which schools and other community agencies and organizations are committed to reaching out to engage families in meaningful ways and in which families are committed to actively supporting their children’s learning and development.
- Family engagement is continuous across a child’s life and entails enduring commitment but changing parent roles as children mature into young adulthood.
- Effective family engagement cuts across and reinforces learning in the multiple settings where children learn- at home, in prekindergarten programs, in school, in after school programs, in faith-based institutions, and in the community.
Our Mission
To promote high impact activities and policies that build powerful partnerships among family, school, and community in order to enhance child development and student achievement.
Our Goal
To support and strengthen the three spheres of influence that contribute to student success: Family, School, Community.
