Partnering With Parents: An Approach to Collaborating with Families to Best Meet Children’s Needs

This workshop presents an approach to making strong connections with parents that maximizes the chance they will register and act on the important information you have to share about how to best help their children thrive in school. This model is especially important when it comes to discussing challenging behaviors, as it builds trust with teachers that enables parents to absorb difficult information, reducing denial and defensiveness that often gets in the way of effective collaboration.