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LEADERSHIP COHORT

Use family engagement to address urgent challenges in K-12 schools

Deploy 'Five Simple Principles’ to fight chronic absenteeism, engage hard-to-reach families and improve student outcomes.

Instructor: Dr. Steven Constantino

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Meet your instructors

With over 25 years of experience in Family Engagement, Dr. Steve Constantino has designed and delivered award-winning keynotes, concurrent sessions training, masterclasses, and customized professional development services to education clients around the United States and worldwide. You now have the opportunity to join national experts Drs. Steve and Peggie Constantino for a unique exploration into authentic family engagement practices and actionable results, rooted in his best-selling Five Simple Principles ™ model and curriculum.

Dr. Margaret “Peggie” Constantino is an Executive Professor in Education Policy, Planning, and Leadership and Director of the Executive Ed. D. Programs at the William & Mary School of Education. Her career in education includes classroom experience as a special educator in elementary, middle, and high school settings. As a school-level leader, she led the development and implementation of one of the largest International Baccalaureate Programs in North America. She has served as principal at the elementary and high school levels in both suburban and urban school systems. She also served as director of special education in Cobb County, GA, the nation’s 24 the largest school system. Dr. Constantino’s teaching and project work crosses doctoral and principal preparation programs, with expertise in innovative leadership, special education, design thinking, action research, equity, and social justice.

The Experience

Your team will engage in a series of intentional learning activities designed to help them apply a proven family engagement framework to improve student outcomes, build community trust and close learning gaps.

Drive Student Success & Change Your Culture

In the opening session, Drs. Steve and Peggie Constantino will help your team shift its view of family engagement from theory to practice. Learn how to leverage family engagement as a tool to improve students outcomes and propel your organization forward.

Collaborative Problem-Solving Sessions

Based on the best-selling Five Simple Principles to Engage Every Family™, a series of (5) live, collaborative sessions demonstrate how educators can use proven family engagement practices to build confidence and address day-to-day challenges in their schools and communities.

Access to Personalized Learning Portal

In addition to the live sessions, each attendee receives password protect access to the RocketPD Learning Portal, where they can access session recordings and resources to self-reflect during their time in the cohort.

Plus, Drs. Steve & Peggie Constantino’s Case Study Book

As an added bonus, all participants will receive a copy of Dr. Steve and Dr. Peggie Constantino’s best-selling book, Case Studies to Engage Every Family™, a collection of 30 actionable case studies of the Five Simple Principles™ at work.

The Outcomes

Educators who enroll in this cohort will:

  • Bridge the gap between family engagement theory and practice.
  • Learn how the 5 Simple Principles™ can be applied
    to address: student outcomes, chronic absenteeism, disengaged families, MTSS supports for hard-to-reach students and students with disabilities and more.
  • Emerge from this program with a practical examples and a proven framework to build authentic trust, solve strategic problems and effectively engage parents in the academic lives of their children, while changing the culture of their organization.

School districts use The Constantino Group to build capacity

"Attending the Master Class was a true privilege. Applying the learning and receiving immediate feedback allows me to implement the strategies immediately in my work setting!"

Maria Ovalle-Lopez

Director of Family Engagement, Klein ISD (TX)

"Steve is a passionate, captivating, and motivating speaker. He offers practical and common-sense advice, based on his years of research and practice experience, about how to create and sustain effective family-school partnerships."

Karen L. Mapp, Ed.D.

Senior Lecturer on Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

"If anyone would like to add to their personal growth or their contribution to the community, I would highly recommend Dr. Constantino’s Master Classes and resources."

Nancy Gauthier

Family and Community Engagement Specialist, Aldine ISD (TX)

The Schedule

October 1, 2024 | 3:30 - 5:00 PM EST

How to drive student success (& improve your culture) with a focus on family engagement

  • Explore the link between culture & student success
  • Model elements of a positive family engagement culture
  • Compare positive examples to your own culture
  • Apply family engagement principles to start improving

October 8, 2024 | 3:30 - 5:00 PM EST

Family engagement as a tool for cultural proficiency

  • Recognize & identify implicit biases in schools
  • Identify organizational structures that contribute to bias
  • Use the cultural proficiency continuum to implement positive practices
  • Learn to promote engagement in every aspect of your community

October 15, 2024 | 3:30 - 5:00 PM EST

Engagement for all: A multi-tiered approach to student success

  • Identify barriers to engaging hard-to-reach families (including those with disabilities)
  • Model practical interventions that families can deploy at home
  • Highlight salient challenges impacting families of struggling (and hard-to-reach) students
  • Emerge with strategies to support families of students with disabilities and other barriers

October 22, 2024 | 3:30 - 5:00 PM EST

Using family engagement to tackle chronic absenteeism

  • Explore causes contributing to chronic student absenteeism
  • Model family engagement strategies to drive higher student attendance
  • Explore teacher and staff roles in listening to and working with families
  • Deploy proven principles to engage families in limiting student absenteeism

October 29, 2024 | 3:30 - 5:00 PM EST

Small wins make for big change

  • Conduct a self-assessment using the Five Simple Principles rubric
  • Implement a systematic, data-driven process in which practitioners pursue action (or Change) and research (or Understanding), while promoting a learning culture
  • Introduce action research as a collaborative process of problem-solving in schools
  • Engage in initial stages of cyclical action research, including problem identification, selection of interventions, reflective analysis, & cycles of improvement

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Let's work together

Would your district like to send multiple teams or even do this cohort with Dr. Constantino as a district? Please complete the form below and we will contact you.















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