Forms and Tools: 

Adapt and use these forms and tools in your work with families. 

To Use with Staff:

• Program Self-Assessment Checklist: a downloadable spreadsheet to use as part of a staff team exercise to evaluate and improve current family engagement practices
• A Family Checklist: a downloadable spreadsheet to help track and analyze your program's effectiveness with individual families
• Jasmine's Day - A Role Play: an activity to use with staff or students to help them experience effective family engagement 

To Use with Families:

• Create a Family Survey: ideas you can use when you conduct your own survey with families  
• Message in a Backpack: learning ideas and activities to print and share with families
• Families.naeyc.org: NAEYC's For Families website, full of research-based family friendly information on children's learning and development 

Additional Resources:

• Literature Review: the initial review of literature on family engagement that helped define this project
• Resource List: articles and books on family engagement and diverstiy

Developed for NAEYC's Engaging Diverse Families Project through a generous grant from the Picower Foundation.
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