Family Engagement in K–8 Mathematics Curricula: This brief shares findings from a landscape scan of widely adopted and recommended K–8 mathematics curricula. It highlights emerging approaches to helping families understand contemporary math instruction, increasing access through multilingual and multimodal resources, reducing communication burdens on teachers, incorporating family perspectives into curriculum development, and strengthening the connection between home and school learning. It also identifies a critical challenge: even strong family resources have limited impact if educators and families do not know they exist or how to use them. Download the Brief here.
Put the Ideas Into Practice:
District Math Reflection Tool: Evaluating Mathematics Curricula for Family Engagement
Designed for district curriculum committees, family engagement leaders, administrators, and educators, this practical tool helps teams look beyond a simple checklist of features and examine how well a curriculum supports families as partners in mathematics learning.
Organized around Reflect, Connect, Collaborate, and Lead, the tool provides guiding questions, a 1–5 reflection scale, space to document evidence and questions for publishers, and a concluding reflection focused on strengths, equity and access, family voice, and implementation. Use it when selecting a new mathematics curriculum, reviewing an existing one, or planning how family engagement will be implemented alongside curriculum adoption. Download the Reflection Tool here.
Designed for district curriculum committees, family engagement leaders, administrators, and educators, this practical tool helps teams look beyond a simple checklist of features and examine how well a curriculum supports families as partners in mathematics learning.
Organized around Reflect, Connect, Collaborate, and Lead, the tool provides guiding questions, a 1–5 reflection scale, space to document evidence and questions for publishers, and a concluding reflection focused on strengths, equity and access, family voice, and implementation. Use it when selecting a new mathematics curriculum, reviewing an existing one, or planning how family engagement will be implemented alongside curriculum adoption. Download the Reflection Tool here.
