How to Communicate Effectively for Family-School Partnerships

PTA’s National Standards for Family-School Partnerships set the foundation for effective collaboration between schools and families to support student succes. Standard 2: Communicate Effectively emphasizes the importance of proactive, timely, and two-way communication that is accessible to all families. This resource offers tools and strategies to help school and district staff strengthen communication practices so that every family can engage meaningfully in their child’s education.

System leaders can use the goals and indicators to guide district-wide efforts or share them with school leaders to promote more effective, inclusive communication and integrate it into school improvement goals and leadership coaching.