Trying to learn during the Covid-19 pandemic is tough on kids and families, which is why Seek Common Ground and the experts at Student Achievement Partners have created Family Guides to help parents, grandparents, caregivers, friends— anyone helping a child to learn in the 2020-21 school year— understand more about what children should know and be able to do by the end of each grade. These academic guides provide information on the most important things students should be learning in literacy and math, how to support students, tips for talking to teachers, education words so families and educators can speak the same language, and online resources that match the most important content and skills.

These guides are meant for everyone— no matter what school looks like for your family this year and where it’s happening. Please share the guides with family, friends, neighbors, and organizations you belong to and/or work with!**

Click the icons below to view the Family Guide for each grade level.

If you have comments or questions, please email us at familyguides@seekcommonground.org. And if you are using the guides, please let us know that, too. We’d love to hear from you!

These guides were made possible with support from the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York. Special thanks to the English Learners Success Forum for their assistance in providing aligned Spanish language resources and to all the parents, educators, and partners who helped us along the way!

**The Family Guides have the most generous Creative Commons license. That means you are free to use, add to, and edit as you see fit. The space where the Seek Common Ground and Student Achievement Partners logo is present was specifically designed to enable you to add your logos (and swap out ours, if you'd like.) These Family Guides were created in Adobe InDesign. If you have Acrobat Professional, you should be able to add your logo and/or edit these guides. If not or if you need the native InDesign file, please contact us at familyguides@seekcommonground.org.