Family And Community Engagement (FACE): Checklist to Making Your Family-Community Partnership Work

Successful schools not only embrace but also actively solicit the engagement of student families.

– Debbie Silver


This checklist can be useful both in planning and evaluating family engagement practices as your school site.

We have updated the original PDF checklist into a Google Doc version, so you can make and modify your own copies to fit each school’s individual needs.

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