Denton ISD Early Childhood Family Engagement Plan
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The Denton ISD Early Childhood Program strives to achieve and maintain high family involvement and positive family attitudes toward education. An effective family engagement plan creates a foundation for the collaboration of mutual partners, embraces families' individuality and uniqueness, and promotes a child-centered, age-appropriate, and family-driven learning culture.
Denton ISD strives to:
- Facilitate family-to-family support
- Establish a network of community resources
- Increase family participation in decision-making
- Equip families with tools to enhance and extend learning
- Develop staff skills in evidence-based practices to support families in meeting their child's learning benchmarks
- Evaluate family engagement efforts and utilize evaluation for continuous improvement
How can families be involved?
- Attend parent-teacher conferences
- Attend activities at school
- Volunteer at your child's campus
- Serve on the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) at your child's campus
- Talk, read, and play with your child
- Access and use the online resources provided
Parent resources:
- Ready Rosie
- CIRCLE Activity Collection
- SPEDTEX-Special Education Information Center
- Early Childhood Texas - Resources for Raising Kids
- Partners Resource Network
- Potty Training