In addition to quarterly Cadre meetings, District MTSS-SEB are invited to join networking sessions every other month.

Materials from these meetings can be found below.

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2022-2023 School Year

1/19/2023

• 1.19 MTSS-SEB Coach Networking Slides

• Family Engagement Networking Tools & Resources
  • Innovation Collaboration Map for Implementation of School-Wide Family Engagement – This document is intended as a planning and monitoring tool for the successful implementation and sustainable use of Family and Community Engagement practices as defined and described by Florida’s Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) Project.
  • Communication Preference Handout for Families – Use this resource to encourage two-way communication with families and gather data in order to increase family engagement.
  • 6 Domains of Family Engagement Chart– Utilize this resource to map out your school or classroom’s implementation of family engagement across tiers within the MTSS framework.
  • MTSS and Elements of Family Engagement- Use this activity to review current classroom, school, or district policies and practices of family engagement within the MTSS framework.
  • Working with Families on CICO – This resource highlights best practices for working with families on Tier 2 Check-in/Check-out strategies.

• Additional Family Engagement Resources
  • Family Plan for PBIS – Families can use this resource from the Center on PBIS to make a family schedule, choose family expectations, and make a plan to teach, remind, reward, and respond to behavior at home.
  • Collaboration with Diverse Families– This Center on PBIS brief is designed to help inform school leaders about how intentional collaboration with diverse families can be created through environments in which educators work alongside families on behalf of the students they serve. Recommendations for action are included.
  • Stakeholder feedback for transition from MS to HS– In this practice brief, the Center on PBIS explore feedback from a group of eighth and ninth grade students, families, and educators on what has been challenging, what has been missing, and what is needed during the transition from middle to high school for students with emotional and behavioral disorders.
  • Equitable Family School Collaboration Video– This session from the Center on PBIS describes how to build equitable family-school collaboration through the integration of family and youth voice to enhance cultural responsiveness in PBIS, including strengthening family-school systems to address discipline disproportionality.
  • Support positive behaviors at home blog– This DE-PBS blog explores ways that positive behavioral supports can be used within the home. This resource outlines how to create a home behavior matrix that encourages positive behaviors suitable for families.
  • Recasting Families and Communities as Co-Designers of Education in Tumultuous Times– This policy memo released by the National Education Policy Center and the Family Leadership Design Collaborative, explores how justice-based approaches to family engagement can enable parents and families, particularly from communities of color, to contribute to transforming schools and educational systems to better serve all children, families, and communities.
  • Embracing a New Normal: Toward a More Liberatory Approach to Family Engagement- This report by Karen L. Mapp and Eyal Bergman of the Harvard Graduate School of Education examines the dynamics and barriers that obstruct effective family-school partnerships and outlines how to reach a more liberatory, solidarity-driven, and equity-focused family engagement practice that supports all children.
  • PBIS Cultural Responsiveness Field Guide– includes a “Personal Matrix” activity to help students and families make personal connections to expectations and help teachers understand family perspectives.
    • DE-PBS Project provides a brief overview of this personal matrix