# Checklist of Effective Family Partnership Practices

### Young children’s social-emotional outcomes are enhanced when teachers and families partner to support the

### Pyramid Model practices. This checklist can help programs reflect on the classroom team’s relationships and

### communication with the families that they are working with.

## Practice Never Sometimes Often Always

#### 1. I am aware of my own biases and I use strategies with

all families to affirm culture, language, and identity.

#### 2. I make efforts to personally connect with all families

by learning information about the family and their circumstances.

#### 3. I make home visits.

#### 4. I represent each child’s family in the classroom in

multiple ways.

#### 5. I offer a variety of opportunities for families to be

involved in the classroom.

#### 6. I use in-person, paper, and electronic strategies to

communicate with families, based on their preferences.

#### 7. I engage in formal and informal bidirectional

communication with families that includes information about the good things their children are doing.

#### 8. I use a data collection system to ensure that I have regular,

personalized communication with all families.

#### 9. I send home practical suggestions for supporting children’s

social-emotional development and addressing challenging behavior at home and in the community.

#### 10. I provide families with support as needed so that they are

confident and comfortable supporting their children’s social-emotional development.

#### 11. I share information with families about community

resources related to social-emotional development and challenging behavior.

Adapted from Chapter 6 of Unpacking the Pyramid Model: A Practical Guide for Preschool Teachers edited by Mary Louise Hemmeter, Ph.D., Michaelene M. Ostrosky, Ph.D., & Lise Fox, Ph.D. © 2021 Brookes Publishing Co., Inc. All rights reserved.