Family engagement is a key factor in student success, yet many educators face challenges in building meaningful, lasting partnerships with families. This asynchronous 15-hour course equips educators with practical strategies to foster strong connections with families, create inclusive communication practices, support home learning, and develop sustainable engagement initiatives. Participants will explore research-based best practices, case studies, and real-world applications to strengthen family-school collaboration. Each session includes interactive reflections, scenario-based problem-solving, and hands-on resource development to help educators implement engagement strategies in their schools and classrooms. By the end of the course, participants will have developed a personalized 3-month family engagement action plan that includes communication strategies, home learning support, and community partnerships tailored to their unique school and student population. This course is designed for K-12 educators, administrators, school counselors, and family engagement coordinators seeking practical, immediately applicable tools to deepen relationships with families and extend learning beyond the classroom. By the end of this course, participants will walk away with actionable tools and strategies to foster meaningful family engagement that extends learning beyond the classroom and creates lasting partnerships for student success. This course will be delivered in Google Classroom. A rockteach email address will be assigned to all participants. RTCI/WTCI course.

Participants will take a deep dive into the book, "The Power of Moments” and discover how important it is for people to create lifetime moments and experiences for others. This includes teachers and principals creating lasting memories for pivotal transition moments, such as the first day of work, the first day of school, graduation, reading 100 books or passing a test. We will have journal entries and a discussion board to discuss each chapter and how it relates to us as teachers. We will discuss the key factors that define pivotal moments and how to create them for others and ourselves. Moments have the ability to define and change our lives. Required Text: The Power of Moments- Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact by Chip Heath and Dan Heath Participants must secure a copy of the book or ebook prior to the start of the course. RTCI/WTCI Course

Participants, who already have a baseline knowledge of Canva, will be able to level up their teaching with this 15 hour asynchronous course. Canva has a wealth of information made readily available to teachers, but what we need more of is to sit down and develop, modify and improve our lessons. This course will be designed to take the type of teaching/learning that has ‘always been done' and the ‘I wish I could make this more engaging' and put that into practice. Students are well versed with technology, and have come to expect their classes to keep up as well. Participants will be asked to look at their lessons with a focus on incorporating Canva into them. For example, while teaching Romeo and Juliet, I used to have the students create masquerade ball invites on construction paper while reading that scene. Now, I use the same concept, but involve Canva, and the results have been much more engaging. We all need more time to work on our lessons, let this class help guide that! This 15 hour asynchronous course will be delivered in Google Classroom. You will be assigned a rockteach email to participants. Canva offers a free version called Canva for Education that is specifically designed for educators and their students. This program provides access to many of the same features as Canva Pro, including access to premium images, fonts, and templates, all at no cost to the user. RTCI will NOT provide Canva subscriptions to participants.
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