Decode Your Family Engagement Data What It Means and How to Act on It
Every day, districts exchange thousands of messages with families, and those conversations hold powerful clues about what builds trust, strengthens connection, and keeps students showing up.
In this session, we unpack insights from more than 3 million school-home interactions across SchoolStatus districts to reveal the communication habits that consistently drive higher reply rates, the moments when families are most responsive, and how early engagement shapes outcomes for the rest of the year.
Leaders will gain clear benchmarks, real examples of high-impact engagement in action, and simple, evidence-informed strategies they can use immediately.
Take a Sneak Peek:
Decode Your Family Engagement Data What It Means and How to Act on It
During this free on-demand webinar, you’ll learn:
- What strong K-12 family engagement actually shows: Benchmarks for reply rates, response times, and engagement patterns across highly connected school communities
- Why early K-12 family engagement sets the tone for the year: How early-year communication predicts family responsiveness for every month that follows
- How family engagement and communication data connect to attendance outcomes: How consistent, well-timed outreach improves attendance and helps reduce chronic absenteeism
Meet the Speakers
Dr. Joy Smithson is a Data Scientist at SchoolStatus, where she works with districts all over the country to help educators use data to inform decisions and support student success. Dr. Smithson sees her role as a dual mission: understanding educators’ pressing research questions, and translating vast datasets into actionable insights to address those queries. Dr. Smithson leverages her expertise in analyzing, interpreting, summarizing, visualizing, and wrangling data to support educators and create better outcomes for students.
Dr. Kara Stern has seen school from just about every angle: high school English teacher, middle school principal, fellowship director for math and science teachers across New York City, and head of school at a rural N-12 school. That breadth is what she brings to her work at SchoolStatus, where she writes, speaks, and challenges educators to build the kinds of school communities where every student thrives. She holds a Master’s in Education Leadership from Teachers College and a Ph.D. in Teaching and Learning from NYU.