We want to shout out to Challenge Island SDCoastal and all the teams that participated in our learning community on #familyengagement . Impactful #familyengagement takes commitment and each participant is all in to listen, learn and partner with caregivers in this important work. STEM Next 🚀

'in back-to-school season, it’s especially important for educators to learn to get all children’s names right.' Important reminder as we plan our #familyengagement . Great piece from Gail Cornwall
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In these 25 years, '@PTHV expanded to more than 700 communities across 28 states & the District of Columbia.' Just imagine the impact these visits have made on children, caregivers, & educators. What a transformative program. 👏🏼to team, partners, & funders that sustained the work

.Ready4K offers support which has the perfect research + practice balance. 'we promote self-care strategies that are proven to help families. Proven to help navigate the ups and downs that come with any period of development and change.' ✨ ready4k.com/blog/family-en…

'COSI has traditionally distributed kits at local food banks across the U.S. and around the world to help feed hungry lives and feed hungry minds.' Here's an idea for broadening #familyengagement in #STEM . 🚀❤️✨

🧡reading this story of how play and curiosity led to this amazing creation. 'Foldscopes have been used for everything from identifying agricultural pests to STEM education in refugee camps.' Congrats Manu Prakash and Jim Cybulski Foldscope 👏🏼

'When educators connect science & engineering to social good, build relationships & create communities that intentionally draw in people who are usually invisible, we automatically attract & advance the talents of people from diverse backgrounds and perspectives.' Nilanjana Dasgupta

' just as a vaccine can protect and inoculate the body against a virus, features of learning environments can act as “social vaccines” that protect and inoculate the mind against noxious stereotypes.' 🧡the research of Nilanjana Dasgupta theconversation.com/educators-can-…

'It’s long overdue to not just think about the role families play in student success when we are in absolute crisis mode, but in ongoing, sustaining, culturally affirming ways.' Thoughtful op-ed from Bibb Hubbard on the research from Learning Heroes ✨

'As adults, we expect students to push through challenges all the time, and this means giving students opportunities to fail safely. If we don’t give students a safe space to land, especially in STEM, how can we expect them to jump?'✨ @chrismooresport chalkbeat.org/2022/8/31/2332…

What better use of our precious time than to meet with parents and guardians and listen and learn from them. Start the year off building relationships with families and understanding what the want and need. UCLA Center X

Oh, the places they will go! 🤸🏼‍♀️Congrats to #EGAmbassador Micaela Venyo at Virginia Tech and all the recent Ambassadors on their journeys in #engineering . We can't wait to hear about your efforts this year. EngineerGirl

💛💙🧡this project! Congrats, Mia S. Shaw. I am imagining all your amazing successes -- working on your doctorate, research, teaching, presenting, and all this. Yes to #blackwomendo

Don't you love these highlights of recent #EGAmbassadors from EngineerGirl. I hope updates on these young women continue through the year.

Idea #2 Think outside the box. Imagine family engagement that broadens participation. We🧡how Beyond School Bells created a mobile lab - Think Make Create - that brings STEM to families. Now that's a novel way to increase access in rural communities. STEM Next

Idea # 1 Relationships first and foremost. We are pleased to share resources from Flamboyan Foundation, Learning Heroes, EdNavigator, and GlobalFamilyResProj that highlight ways to connect with families.✨STEM Next