Today's Parent Teacher Relationship: Getting Adult Caretakers Involved

Join us at 2pm EST with our special guest Ms. Helen Westmoreland as she discusses the challenges schools around the U.S. face engaging families and adult caretakers and some innovative strategies they use to overcome those challenges. Helen Westmoreland is the Director of National Parent Teacher Association's Center for Family Engagement, where she leads PTA’s efforts to empower parent leaders to be champions for transformative family engagement.Prior to National PTA, Helen was Deputy Director at Flamboyan Foundation, where she co-developed their family engagement strategy. Previously, she worked at the Harvard Family Research Project and with community-based afterschool programs. She has provided consulting services and authored publications on family engagement, education organizing, out-of-school time, and scaling impact.Helen received an MEd from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a BA from Duke University. She is also a proud graduate of South Carolina public schools and a new mother.