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The U.S. Department of Education and its partners United Way Worldwide, National PTA, SEDL, and Harvard Family Research Project announce the third installment of their webinar series, Achieving Excellence and Innovation in Family, School, and Community Engagement webinar series. The webinar, Data Driven: Making Student Data Accessible and Meaningful to Families, will take place on Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 3:30-5:00 p.m. (EDT).

This webinar will take a look at practical examples of how districts and schools are using data to engage families in their children's education. The webinar will also introduce tools that enable practitioners, districts, and schools to incorporate data into their own family engagement strategies.

Featured speakers will include:

• Kevin Jennings, Assistant Deputy Secretary for Safe and Drug-Free Schools, U.S. Department of Education
• Anna Hinton, Director, Parental Options and Information, Office of Innovation and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education
• Zena Rudo, Project Director, SEDL
• Jennifer Salzstein, Program Director, ARIS Parent Link, New York City Department of Education
• Barbara Taveras, Director, Community Engagement, New Visions for Public Schools
• D'Lisa Crain, Grant Administrator, Nevada State PIRC, Education Alliance of Washoe County

Don't miss this opportunity to gain an understanding of what is needed to engage families through the use of student data, discuss some of the challenges in building capacity, and highlight strategies to overcome them.

Click here to learn more, or to register to participate in the webinar.

ABOUT THE WEBINAR SERIES
The Achieving Excellence and Innovation in Family, School, and Community Engagement webinar series aims to provide opportunities for stakeholders representing national, regional, and local organizations to learn about family, school, and community engagement research and innovations, as well as best practices from the field. The series kicked off in April 2010 and will run through September 2011.