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Topic: Family Engagement

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April 5, 2025

From Attendance to Opportunity: How ECISD Is Strengthening Family Engagement—and Investing in the Future of Its Community

East Central ISD strengthened family engagement to improve attendance, gaining nearly 32,000 additional instructional days over two years. Discover how two-way, multilingual communication helped the district address attendance barriers earlier, strengthen family-school partnerships, and create more opportunities for students.

April 4, 2025

TalkingPoints Family Engagement Foundations Overview

Discover how TalkingPoints helps schools build strong, lasting partnerships with families through simple, accessible two-way communication. This overview highlights how a text-first approach, AI-powered guidance, and real-time insights enable educators to engage every family, foster trust, and drive better outcomes in attendance, learning, and student well-being.

April 4, 2025

From Access to Partnership: How Baltimore County Public Schools Is Reimagining Family Engagement for Every Family

With 108,017 students, more than 13,000 multilingual learners, and families from 122 countries speaking 114 home languages, BCPS is one of the most linguistically diverse districts on the East Coast. The district had invested accordingly. Sixty interpreters. LanguageLine for translation. A full communications department. Still, they knew they could do more, reaching families on their own terms. The question wasn’t whether Baltimore County cared about multilingual family engagement. It was why the infrastructure it had built wasn’t producing the partnership and connection it wanted.

April 3, 2025

TalkingPoints App for Families Overview

Discover how the free TalkingPoints for Families app keeps every school-to-home message in one place. This overview highlights how families can stay connected in their preferred language, message their child’s teacher and school directly, view class events, and manage multiple children’s schools and classrooms — all from one simple, mobile app. Note: This overview is intended for families at schools with a paid TalkingPoints subscription.

April 3, 2025

From Conversation to Curriculum: How Baltimore County Families Are Supporting Early Literacy at Home

Over several years, Baltimore County Public Schools turned two-way, multilingual communication into something more than administrative messaging — it became a source of connection, and ultimately trust. That foundation enabled a shift families and educators both want: working together to support student growth.