The Extended FACE Family is a support network of school-based staff charged with leading family and community engagement at the school level. Focusing Denver Public Schools on family engagement best practice is essential for our collective success. This page is designed to be a resource to you and your staff for all things family and community engagement.

The Family, School, Partnership Team supports these staff through:

• building distributive leadership and capacity
• professional development convenings
• 1:1 coaching
• best-practice resource sharing
• bi-weekly Zoom collaborations

Our Strategic Approach

Everyone benefits when parents and families are involved in their children's education. Not only do students perform higher in school, parents feel more connected to their school community. On the left side of the graphic are examples of strategies that build relationships with families and the school community. On the right are strategies that link family engagement directly to student acheivement. When they are used simultenously we see greater student outcomes and family satisfaction.