Parent Engagement Workshops
Parent Engagement Training Modules
Parents have opportunities to deepen and refine their skills at a series of follow-up workshops offered by school districts.
The sessions help parents learn appropriate child development and effective discipline strategies, as well as understand their children’s unique learning needs. Parents will learn how to partner with their children’s school to support a healthy school climate, and they’ll practice academic support strategies that can help children learn at home. Training modules allow parents the opportunity to continue to hone their ability to improve student achievement by addressing the academic, discipline, nutrition and safety needs of their children. Modules address specific topics and are targeted for various student age groups. Modules are also available in English.Parent Project Junior
Parent Project Junior Training is a four-session workshop series (90 minutes each session) for parents of Transitional Kindergarten to 5th grade students. Using a culturally sensitive manner, this interactive workshop series combines social emotional learning (SEL) parenting strategies so that parents may understand how to lovingly parent and support their child’s growth and learning.
Topics include:
● Parenting the strong-willed child
● Parental influence
● Encouraging positive choices
● Structuring for success
● Improving school performance
Active Parenting
Active Parenting Training is a four-session workshop series (90 minutes each session) for parents of preadolescents and adolescents in 6th to 12th grades. Using a culturally sensitive manner, parents learn about the social emotional developmental needs of adolescents, effective communication, and other strategies they can use to help their teens develop into responsible and courageous adults.
Topics include:
● Active listening
● How teens gain more independence with responsibility
● How to reduce risky behavior
For more information please contact Jaime Koo at jkoo@sccoe.org
Parent University
These stand-alone workshops are meant to build capacity for parents and educators who are doing parent engagement work. Please see this list of workshop and training topics that may be of value for your staff, parents, and school community.
Contact us early to customize and schedule your parent workshop!
Jaime Koo Coordinator, Parent Engagement
Parent University Workshop Title
| Workshop Description
| Audience
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Nurturing Effective Communication with Your Children
| "I don't understand my children" and "Why don't they talk to me?" are very common sentiments parents have about the dynamics with their children. This workshop will explore effective communication strategies parents can put into practice to nurture healthy relationships with their children.
| For Parents/Guardians of students of all ages
|
Becoming a Supportive Family and Inclusive School Community
| Today’s youth face many challenges that undermine healthy and safe relationships. This evidence-based workshop focuses on helping families support LGBTQ+ children and youth by promoting well-being and reducing health risks through increasing accepting behaviors.
| For Parents/Guardians of students of all ages
|
Encouraging Literacy at Home: Building Foundations for Reading
| Ever wonder how you could help your child build a great foundation in reading? This workshop will provide practical, fun, tried-and-true tips for parents to increase their child’s confidence in understanding letter recognition and phonics, navigating leveled readers, and enhancing reading comprehension using picture books.
| For Parents/Guardians of students Pre-school to 1st grade
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Guiding and Coaching Your Aspiring Writer
| This parent workshop will give strategies to guide and coach your aspiring writer with confidence. We will talk about how to help your child improve sentences and how to affirm and gently nudge children to expand their idea development.
| For Parents/Guardians of students 3rd grade and up
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Reading Comprehension Support: Connection Through Conversation
| As children grow up, parents may find it difficult to understand what their child is reading, let alone support them with reading comprehension. Not so! This workshop will outline common themes found in literature and share strategies for connecting with children through conversations to encourage and develop critical thinking skills.
| For Parents/Guardians of students 5th grade and up
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Family Literacy Development Workshops 2025-2026
Supporting Reading Basics for Children Birth - 5 years
Through a Steps to Success grant, the Family and Community Engagement program is pleased to offer two workshops for parents and caregivers to support reading development for children from birth to age 5.
Encouraging Literacy at Home
This workshop will provide practical and fun tips for parents and caregivers to support their child’s literacy development such as:
• talk about what you are doing and going to do
• have books available and read together
• play with sounds and make up silly rhymes
Interactive Read Aloud
This workshop will demonstrate an interactive read aloud - an engaging, high-impact instructional strategy where
parents, caregivers, and children can:
• build reading skills in a meaningful way
• interact using questions and discussions
• gain vocabulary and reading comprehension
Parents and Caregivers can join our Virtual workshops for free on the 3rd and 4th Wednesday of the month.
