Making Family Night Events Truly Engaging

In our latest episode, Brian welcomes MIND’s Lead Mathematician Brandon Smith back to the show, for a discussion on family engagement. Building on our previous discussions of student engagement and getting dynamically active in learning, we explore the challenges that schools face when trying to put together family night events that truly engage parents and students. Brandon explains four common missteps that can be avoided when designing family nights, and provides guidance on how to put families in the driver's seat to provide an experience that both parents and students will take back home with them. Brandon also outlines some of the resources we are developing for schools that will help make designing, organizing and implementing family nights easier and more impactful. Topics Covered in the Podcast: 0:45 Intro 3:00 Reaching students' families and social networks 11:30 Changing the focus 15:00 Intrinsic vs.Extrinsic motivators 20:30 Who is driving the experience 25:30 Shortcoming of station rotation or "fair" model 30:45 The cell phone metric 33:30 Resources for engaging family nights For more resources on student and family engagement, visit mindresearch.org and mathmindsgames.com. Thanks for listening to the podcast! Please leave us a review on iTunes, Google Play, Spreaker, or wherever you are listening to the show.

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Making Family Night Events Truly Engaging is an episode from Inside Our MIND by MIND Research Institute.

This episode is 37:39 long.

This episode was published on Oct 19, 2019.

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