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What is Family Engagement?
Families are engaged when they partner with early learning programs to promote their children’s development, learning, and wellness. Positive relationships between families and early learning program staff are the foundation for family engagement.
Family engagement has been shown to:
• Increase a child’s motivation to learn.
• Reduce behavioral problems.
• Support growth and development.
• Foster school readiness skills, such as impulse control, attention, memory, and planning skills.
This checklist is a tool for your family to use to consider the level of partnership with your child’s early learning program. Ask yourself the following questions and check a box for your answer. For any items answered “no,” you may want to write a note on how you can begin doing that item. Consider sharing your responses with your child’s teacher and discuss ways you can be even more engaged in your child’s learning.
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