Education's Future: Teachers + Families

Explore how educators are doing community-based work to engage families in learning, fight against inequities head on, and create a more optimistic vision for a future uniting families, educators, and communities.

Follow young educators as they explore how to better engage with students, their families and caregivers, and the communities they come from.

Meet the roadtrippers and follow them as they interview superintendents, teachers of the year, and more.

Explore how parents, teachers, and community leaders are doing their part to help students flourish in the classroom and out of it.

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Explore exciting new approaches empowering families and teachers to be partners in their students’ success.

Struggles over digital learning, chaotic school board meetings, and breakdowns in student support have all grabbed headlines for the last several years. While you may see this on the news, it’s not the full story. Teachers and families agree far more often than they disagree because they share the same priorities: putting students at the center of learning

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Insights from the Interviews

"It’s simple. This is my motto: just roll up your sleeves and do the work."

Jimmy Lee Day II, Band and Orchestra Teacher, East Middle School

"It’s hard to not feel attached to the cause because we know that it’s going to pay off somewhere down the line for somebody."

Early Learning Project Manager, Envision Utah

"Find some way to reach out to your families, to your students. Get to know them as human beings. See them in their full humanity and let them see you in your full humanity."

Executive Director, Parent Teacher Home Visits

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Featured Interviews

Debra Smith

Superintendent, Fremont County School District

Jimmy Lee Day II

Band and Orchestra Teacher, East Middle School

Travis Allred

Early Learning Project Manager, Envision Utah

Val Teichert

Licensed Drug and Alcohol Counselor, The Family Support Center

Gina Martinez-Keddy

Executive Director, Parent Teacher Home Visits

Rachelle Rhodes

Parent, Family and Child Empowerment Services (FACES Inc.)

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