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Family & Community Engagement

The Oklahoma State Department of Education is committed to strengthening and increasing family and community engagement to support student learning. The Office of Family and Community Engagement provides guidance, resources and support for families, schools, and communities as they work together to build meaningful partnerships that promote student success. We know these partnerships ultimately lead to significant gains in student achievement.


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The Oklahoma Family Engagement Framework invites families, schools, and communities to partner to support student learning. It brings research and local experience together to create a vision for family engagement.

Oklahoma Family Engagement Framework

Distance Learning Resources

Planning for potential short-term disruptions to instruction requires a renewed effort by our school leaders to plan and promote student learning through family and community engagement. Resources are now available to help you identify key opportunities for engaging families and supporting learning at home.

Engaging Families to Support Distance Learning


Oklahoma's Pathways for Family Engagement

Family and Community Engagement is a shared responsibility among families, schools, and communities to build relationships that support a child’s learning and growth from birth through college and career. These four pathways will help establish strong family, school, and community partnerships.

Relationships, based on mutual trust and respect, are the foundation for family engagement. Relationships should be individualized and inclusive of all families. An important component of strengthening relationships is listening to each other. Ongoing, two-way communication provides ways for schools and families to stay connected. Regular communication provides a way for schools, families, and communities to partner and meet the needs of children.

Pathway in Action: Strengthen Relationships Guide
This document provides you with guiding questions to help your team focus on the continuous improvement process - Plan, Do, Review - for this pathway. It includes examples of the pathway in action and resources to help your team implement the pathway.

Family engagement encompasses all families, school staff, and communities. A family engagement plan should ensure everyone has opportunities to build their skills and abilities and serve in leadership roles. It is important to grow the confidence and capacity of families, schools, and community members to effectively support student learning at school, at home, and in the community.

Pathway in Action: Build Leadership Guide
This document provides you with guiding questions to help your team focus on the continuous improvement process - Plan, Do, Review - for this pathway. It includes examples of the pathway in action and resources to help your team implement the pathway.

All families need an accurate picture of their children's learning. Creating opportunities for all families' interests, identities, and home lives establishes meaningful experiences between learning at school and learning at home. As families and communities partner with teachers and schools, it is important to celebrate and validate everyone's contributions and positive impact on student learning.

Pathway in Action: Focus on Learning Guide
This document provides you with guiding questions to help your team focus on the continuous improvement process - Plan, Do, Review - for this pathway. It includes examples of the pathway in action and resources to help your team implement the pathway.

Connecting communities is about mobilizing all available resources to meet the needs of the whole child in support of lifelong learning. Community, by definition, is sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.

Communities can be:

  • groups of people - peers - such as students or families
  • groups such as tribal nations, non-profits, organizations, and corporations

Community partnerships should be based on mutual trust and respect and ensure all partners benefit from the collaboration. Together - as a community - we can connect available resources to meet the needs of children and families.

Pathway in Action: Connect Communities Guide
This document provides you with guiding questions to help your team focus on the continuous improvement process - Plan, Do, Review - for this pathway. It includes examples of the pathway in action and resources to help your team implement the pathway.

Contact Us

Family and Community Engagement

2500 North Lincoln Boulevard, Suite 414
Oklahoma City, OK 73105

Phone: 405-522-6225
Fax: 405-522-2269

Last Modified on Jan 23, 2025
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