Welcome to the Meeting Templates

Each ELAC meeting is an opportunity to build community, elevate family voice, and grow leadership. These templates provide the facilitation team with agendas, scripts, slides, activities, and handouts that make meetings easier to lead while centering families as true partners. Use them as a guide to create meaningful conversations, spark collaboration, and ensure every family feels their voice matters in shaping the success of multilingual learners.

• Welcome to ELAC: Leading Together for Student Success: An engaging kickoff meeting that builds community, introduces ELAC’s purpose and responsibilities, and centers family voice from the start.

• Your Child's Multilingual Learner Journey: An interactive session that helps families understand ELD instruction, ELPAC testing, reclassification, and how to support their child’s language development at home and school.

• School-wide Needs Assessment: Family Listening Session for ELAC/LCAP/SPSA: A two-part ELAC needs assessment meeting that centers multilingual family voice through a listening session, then strengthens the schoolwide survey by gathering feedback and planning outreach so more families are heard.

• Supporting Our Students with the ELPAC Test: Schools and Families Partnering Together:This meeting is designed as a follow-up to “Your Child’s Multilingual Journey” and is scheduled closer to the ELPAC testing window. It revisits key ELPAC and language growth concepts with a stronger focus on school supports and practical ways families can partner at home—based directly on questions and requests shared by multilingual families.

• Attendance & Equity: Every Day Counts: A collaborative conversation that connects attendance to opportunity, explores barriers families face, and generates ELAC recommendations.

• Getting the Most from Parent Teacher Conferences: A hands-on session that helps families prepare for conferences, practice key questions, and build confidence to partner with teachers around goals and supports.

• SPSA - Your Voice Matters: Partnering to Improve Our School Together  (coming mid-March): A practical workshop that guides families to turn needs and priorities into clear recommendations that can inform the School Plan for Student Achievement.

• Growing Together: A Year End Celebration: A community-building closing meeting that celebrates family leadership, reflects on progress, gathers feedback, and sets hopes and commitments for next year.