Summary - Family Engagement Series: Literacy Night

EVENT OVERVIEW

This Family Literacy Night event is the kickoff to our capacity-building Family Engagement series that helps schools become true partners with families and community. Teams use Kentucky’s MTSS guidance to create routines, roles, and communication practices that make partnership part of Tier 1, not a one-off event. What you get with registration: -4 hours of immersive learning and debrief -Printed materials and a digital guidebook with complete station activities, letters to families, and explicit KAS connections for hosting your own Family Engagement event -Practical strategies for inclusive, literacy-centered partnerships -Lunch

Participants will learn how to:

Design Purposeful Literacy Events: Understand how to align family literacy nights with school-wide literacy goals, grade-level standards, and student needs, ensuring that every activity supports meaningful reading, writing, speaking, and listening development.
Create and Facilitate Hands-On Literacy Stations: Gain practical tools for designing interactive, developmentally appropriate stations that model evidence-based literacy strategies families can use at home, such as shared reading, word games, vocabulary-building activities, and comprehension supports.
Build Staff and Community Collaboration: Learn how to coordinate with teachers, specialists, and community partners to create a cohesive event that reflects the school’s literacy vision and provides families with ongoing resources and support.
Use Data to Inform and Improve: Explore how to gather feedback from families, use student literacy data to guide event planning, and measure the impact of engagement efforts on student learning and family-school relationships.
Promote a Welcoming Environment: Develop strategies to foster a warm, inclusive atmosphere that encourages family participation, honors family expertise, and builds trust between educators and caregivers.