Family Guides

Parents and caregivers want their children to succeed in school— to be engaged and excited about learning; to build strong relationships with their teachers and peers; and to learn each year the knowledge and skills they need to be successful academically.

But it hasn’t always been easy for parents and caregivers to figure out what children should know and be able to do by the end of each grade— and how to discuss these topics with their children and teachers. These Family Guides, created by Seek Common Ground and the experts at Student Achievement Partners, take the mystery out, and provide parents and caregivers with the information and tools they need to support their children academically in literacy and math, which are the building-block subjects for everything else.

With these Guides, families can engage more deeply in their children’s education, advocate for them, and build partnerships with their teachers— thus developing the strong bond between students, families, and teachers that ensures kids thrive.

Please share these 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!

View this page in Spanish at https://seekcommonground.org/guias-familiares

These guides were made possible with support from the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies 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.