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We get photo releases from parents and stay in touch through Facebook, Instagram, and our blog. We also post "public information": articles that provide support to students and families.

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DYCD would like to work with the network to build out STEM-based resources for digital Toolkit. How can we work together?

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What is going on in the city? What can students and families participate in? Is there admin support for getting info out to families?

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Ensuring that staff are trained / on board, that engaging parents is CRITICAL.

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Loved this idea from another participant. We're stealing that one!

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Curiousity Machine uses multi generational learning offers.  5 workshops offered to whole family.

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Curiousity Machine uses multi generational learning offers.  5 workshops offered to whole family.

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Understanding what people are doing at other sites

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Understanding what people are doing at other sites

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A shared calendar for events would be helpful to all of us, and allow us to direct families to resources that are outside of individual site expertise.

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It's great to have anecdotal evidence, but it is important to have more robust data behind our findings.

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Be targeted.  Ask principal or site leaders to help identify the parents likely to get involved.

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Be targeted.  Ask principal or site leaders to help identify the parents likely to get involved.

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Partner with NYCHA or events like Lego to reach parents.  Don't do family engagement alone.

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Partner with NYCHA or events like Lego to reach parents.  Don't do family engagement alone.

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Inviting Parents, especially for older students 

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Inviting Parents, especially for older students 

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Calling to invite parents, especially for older kids, let's parents know they are welcomed. Often time we assume parents can't/won't come, however they don't always know they are welcome/wanted.

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Get parents involved early, invite them to PD!

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Get parents involved early, invite them to PD!

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Connects class and home from the start.

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Parent Action Committees / Parent Ambassadors 

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Parent Action Committees / Parent Ambassadors 

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Promoting parent to parent engagement to encourage more participation in STEM. Lends to "side" conversations of the value of programming and engagement with their students.

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Get parents talking to parents.  Builds community, familarity speaking in the same language and kids on the same track.

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Get parents talking to parents.  Builds community, familarity speaking in the same language and kids on the same track.

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Prompting hands-on experiences that families could do at home with existing household items

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Partner with locations like Mount Sinai to learn how the brain works, etc. Expands existing events and allows for family participation

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Family Science nights - go to a schools in one of five boroughs,  expanding on an existing event, to create a "pop-up science fair." Hands-on experiences for families.

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Invite parents to come on trips with students as part of a mentoring program. In attendance: students, mentors and families. (build the expense into the budget; and find locations that are more affordable)

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Tey more non STEM relationship building: yoga, literacy, dance...  then add in more STEM content

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Tey more non STEM relationship building: yoga, literacy, dance...  then add in more STEM content

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Help in areas families need it, ie. college applications, camp registrations...

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Help in areas families need it, ie. college applications, camp registrations...

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How do you build on interest in math and science once you spark initial interest as a parent?  (it is difficult to continue to FIND new activities to build on skills)

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How do we get parents to use resources, such as Bedtime Math app?

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Does anyone have the link for the queens college free language translation program?

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Does anyone have the link for the queens college free language translation program?

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Can Network organizations partner with DYCD and distribute kits to parents? How can Network members partner with DYCD on this initiative? 

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Can Network organizations partner with DYCD and distribute kits to parents? How can Network members partner with DYCD on this initiative? 

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"Advertising" programs, applications and next steps.  Be okay hand holding a bit.

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"Advertising" programs, applications and next steps.  Be okay hand holding a bit.

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Family Engagement night, where families can partipate in our STEM activities alongside their children and take ideas (and resources!) home with them to continue the exploration

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How can DYCD tap into the organizations that offer STEM based programming to include with our resource libraries for the CBOs we support?

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Is there research that suggests that distributed kits are actually completed at home?

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We're all on a continuum. It might be nice to have a self-assessment so my organization can identify what we're doing well and what we need to work on.

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Sharing insights learned from parent interactions across sites

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Sharing insights learned from parent interactions across sites

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Is there research that says that “talking about math” at home has an impact on future use success?

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Love the idea of re-thinking "family" to include the wider circle of support

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Love the idea of re-thinking "family" to include the wider circle of support

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We can't underestimate how important parents are to developing stem identities.  Our orgs need to boil down the theory of Growth Mindset with conversation starters, prompts, dos and donts  for families

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We can't underestimate how important parents are to developing stem identities.  Our orgs need to boil down the theory of Growth Mindset with conversation starters, prompts, dos and donts  for families

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How can I get the STEM kits that DYCD provides to families to my families?

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How can I get the STEM kits that DYCD provides to families to my families?

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Makerspace facilitators in our program provide "parent reports" to students to take home and share with their parents

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Makerspace facilitators in our program provide "parent reports" to students to take home and share with their parents

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What turned out to be the barrier to parents not attending the Saturday activity?

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Earlier this week, we started a parent committee. The plan is to have parents talk to parents. Our students stay with us from 6th grade through college so there's always parents of older students who have experience and advice to give to fellow parents. The plan is to run parallel events for students and parents at key points in their educational trajectory.

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How did DYCD fund the distribution of kits? Will they be expanding this kind of initiative and if so how will providers be compensated for those kits?

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Outreach to NYC Housing Authority sites to demontrate activities and bring
families to our site for programming.

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What type of engagement activities help parents build confidence in their own STEM knowledge ?

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Parent orientation and family celebrations of student STEM work

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Parent orientation and family celebrations of student STEM work

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1.  Regular communications with parents with email list and handouts to take home.  2.  Make it convenient with transportation, food, open to siblings.  3.  Make family part of the Lego team with shirts, buttons etc.  4. Make sure all staff knows their job includes connecting with parents, sharing stories about their youth etc

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1.  Regular communications with parents with email list and handouts to take home.  2.  Make it convenient with transportation, food, open to siblings.  3.  Make family part of the Lego team with shirts, buttons etc.  4. Make sure all staff knows their job includes connecting with parents, sharing stories about their youth etc