Family and Community Engagement

All of Athena’s programs integrate family and community outreach and are culturally responsive.

Our acclaimed parent workshops are led by Heather Miller, author of Prime Time Parenting.

Parent Workshops

Athena Learning offers our client schools workshops that engage families as partners in the educational process. Our Parent-School-Student contract establishes a culture of shared responsibility. With a strong sense of belonging and regular communication, families and schools work together much more successfully and happily.

Our workshops build family, community and teacher expertise in areas as diverse as :

  • Getting Kids Ready for Back To School

  • Your Child’s Dream Team: The Teacher, The Family and the Child

  • Raising a Reader in the Digital Age

  • Helping Our Children Manage Anxiety (in under 10-year olds)

  • Helping Our Children Manage Anxiety (in Tweens)

  • Helping Your Child Succeed on the State Tests

  • The Parent’s Role in Homework

  • Cultivating a Growth Mindset, Part 1 and II

  • Creating a Balance between Real Time and Screen Time

  • All About High Schools

  • Prime Time Parenting: How to maximize evening hours to support your child

  • Every Child Needs a Hobby

  • Planning a Summer of Reading and Learning

  • How has the pandemic affected my child?

  • Finishing the School Year Strong

  • Creating an inclusive and welcoming school community

The extent to which schools nur­ture pos­i­tive rela­tion­ships with fam­i­lies — and vice ver­sa — makes all the dif­fer­ence, research shows. Stu­dents whose par­ents stay involved in school have bet­ter atten­dance and behav­ior, get bet­ter grades, demon­strate bet­ter social skills and adapt bet­ter to school.

— The Annie E. Casey Foundation