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One-Day
Essential Partner Workshop
Family Engagement Training That Builds Stronger Schools
What Is the One-Day Essential Partner Workshop?
The One-Day Essential Partner Workshop is a high-impact, on-site professional learning experience designed to help schools and districts build meaningful, sustainable family engagement practices. Led by Project Appleseed’s President Kevin Walker, the workshop brings proven strategies, tools, and planning frameworks directly to your school community.
Workshop Purpose & Goals
This workshop helps educators move beyond events and compliance toward authentic partnerships with families. Participants leave with a shared understanding of effective family engagement, aligned practices across roles, and an actionable plan they can implement immediately.
What You’ll Learn
Six Slices of Family Engagement
A research-based framework that helps schools understand, organize, and strengthen family engagement across six essential areas.
Launching Your Family Engagement Drive
Participants learn to launch a focused, sustainable family engagement campaign using the Parent Engagement Pledge as its foundation, helping schools move beyond one-time activities to build lasting partnerships with families.
Title I & ESSA Alignment
How effective family engagement supports compliance while advancing improvement goals.
Overcoming Barriers to Engagement
Practical strategies to address time, trust, communication, and access challenges—especially for traditionally under-engaged families.
Create A Schoolwide Action Plan
Guided planning time to develop realistic, school-specific next steps that involve staff and families.
Who Should Participate!
School Leaders & Administrators
Superintendents, principals, and central office leaders seeking districtwide alignment, stronger community trust, and results-driven engagement strategies.
Teacher Teams
Grade-level and content teams looking for practical ways to partner with families to support student learning and school culture.
Family Engagement Coordinators
Staff responsible for designing, coordinating, or evaluating family engagement initiatives.
Title I Specialists
Educators and administrators responsible for Title I compliance, parent and family engagement plans, and ESSA alignment.
Parent Liaisons & Volunteers
Family-facing staff and parent leaders who play a critical role in connecting schools and communities.
Workshop Highlights & Outcomes
Strengthened Communication
A clear, shared communication framework that builds trust and consistency across classrooms and schools.
Use Practical Family Engagement Tools
Participants receive ready-to-use community out reach materials that reduce planning time and increase impact.
Customized Engagement Strategies
The workshop is tailored to your district’s context, goals, and challenges.
Written Evaluation & Feedback
Your school’s beliefs and current practices will be assessed using surveys from the One-Day Essential Partner Workshop, followed by guided conversations with Kevin Walker focused on strengthening and sustaining meaningful family engagement.
Every family
succeeds with the
Parent
Engagement
Pledge!
Create a Family Engagement Action Plan
Turn ideas into action with a practical, school-specific plan. Participants identify priorities, select strategies, assign responsibilities, and establish next steps for building stronger, more consistent partnerships with families.
Workshop Agenda
Key Learning Objectives - Participants Will:
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Understand why parent and family engagement is essential to student success.
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Define high-impact family engagement and its role in school improvement.
Introduction & Overview
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The benefits of meaningful family engagement
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Setting a shared vision for school–family partnerships
Connecting
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What family engagement is—and what it is not
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Defining high-impact family engagement
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Understanding Title I family engagement requirements
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Identifying common barriers to engagement and how to address them
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Explore the connection between family engagement and positive student outcomes.
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Identify core strategies, resources, and structures that support effective engagement.
Engaging
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The Six Slices of Family Engagement framework
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Strengthening school events and family activities
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Communicating effectively with all families
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Using the Family Engagement Toolbox for practical implementation
Sustaining
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Implementing Red Carpet Treatment to build welcoming school cultures
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Developing a realistic, school-specific Family Engagement Action Plan
What’s Included
Each participating school receives one complimentary Lifetime Family Engagement Toolbox when purchasing a qualifying workshop. For multi-school workshops, up to four complimentary Lifetime Toolboxes are provided. Additional school licenses are available at the Partner District rate shown above. This gives schools both the tools and professional learning needed to turn family engagement strategies into action.
Workshop Capacity & Booking
Each session is designed for a maxium of 50–75 participants per session, ideally organized as school or district teams. Ideally workshops should be booked at least 30 days in advance to allow our national team preparation time. Workshops are scheduled on a rolling basis; early booking is encouraged.
Scheduling Options
One-Day Workshop runs from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., including lunch and scheduled breaks.
Download
Project Appleseed's guide, "Family Engagement Professional Development," for more information.
Bring the One-Day Workshop to Your School!
Ready to bring the One-Day Essential Partner Workshop to your school or district? Together, we can build stronger partnerships with families—and stronger schools for students. Workshop fees Include all travel expenses.Request a quote, schedule a session or contact Project Appleseed below to get started!
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