Are you a teacher, instructional assistant, school counselor, family and community engagement specialist, out-of-school time provider, or administrator in a K-6 grade setting?

Join us

to find out how to better engage families in providing the best support for the children you work with in a 5-part workshop series and
for a deeper dive into the how of family engagement with strengths- and relationship-based practices - 16-hour Touchpoints Training

Workshop begins April 4

For teachers, principals, and other K - 6th-grade education professionals, building relationships with families is one of the most important responsibilities that school staff have to foster students’ success and well-being. Come explore the how of building relationships. We will offer family engagement strategies that educators can use to support the success of their students. In this workshop series, you will learn how to cultivate a strengths-based mindset in your work with families.

Live sessions:

Thursdays, 4 – 5:30 PM PT

April 4 – A View from All Sides: Perspective-Taking to Support Family Engagement
April 11 – Choosing Your Attitude: Using Strengths-Based Family Assumptions
April 18 – Listening to Understand: Communicating with Families
April 25 – Reimagining Parent-Teacher Conversations: Engaging Families to Understand Students Behaviors
May 2 – Value Passion: Connecting with Families and What They Care About

Registration fee:

Regular rate: $175
BTC Learning Network member rate: $150 (Click here to learn about joining the BTC Learning Network.)

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Training begins August 27

For teachers, principals, and other K - 6 education professionals, building collaborative relationships with families is one of the most important responsibilities that school staff have to foster students’ overall success and well-being. When we focus on HOW to build relationships, we can strengthen our collaborations with families, even when we and they have different points of view.

The Touchpoints Approach offers strategies for educators to:

Understand the process of students’ development and examine how and why change in behavior occurs
Partner with families to promote child and family strengths
Address developmental or behavioral concerns with families
Re-examine our assumptions, biases, interactions, and communication with families to foster students’ overall success

Live sessions:

Tuesdays/Thursdays August 27 & 29, September 3 & 5, 12 – 4 pm ET

Registration fee:

Regular rate: $795
BTC Learning Network member rate: $770 (Click here to learn about joining the BTC Learning Network.)

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Would you like to bring this workshop or another BTC training to your program, organization, or community?

BTC facilitators can offer our courses online to your specific group. We can also customize trainings to meet your program’s or organization’s professional learning needs.

Additional Trainings

Development is a Journey Roadmap Workshop — Begins June 13

Early identification and intervention are critical to promote a child’s optimal development. Yet, developmental screening results and concerns can be anxiety-provoking for families and providers. The Brazelton Touchpoints Center has developed a tool to help family-facing providers have collaborative and productive conversations with families about developmental screening results.

Learn about and practice using the Development is a Journey Conversation Roadma p to enhance the provider-parent partnership and engage parents and other caregivers in planning for their child’s developmental needs.

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Navigating Challenging Conversations Series — Begins August 21

As professionals working with families of young children, we may often feel anxious or at a loss about how to navigate conversations on challenging topics. Yet these are often the most important conversations to have in order to build and maintain trusting relationships with families.

In this three-part workshop series, we will explore how racism, culture, and bias may affect when and how we experience conversations as challenging. We will discuss how our perspectives and roles may influence our understanding of those of the children, families, and colleagues we work with.

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ABOUT BTC

The Brazelton Touchpoints Center (BTC) provides professional and leadership development, organizational learning and change, and research and evaluation for family-facing professionals in pediatrics, early childhood, infant mental health, children's libraries and museums, home visiting, and child welfare. BTC is home to the Touchpoints Approach, the Brazelton Institute (the Newborn Behavioral Observations systems and the Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale), the Indigenous Early Learning Collaborative Institute, Family Connections, and the BTC Research and Evaluation team. At BTC, we are dedicated to creating a lasting community in which equity, diversity, inclusion, belonging, and antiracism thrive.

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