The Lockley Resource Hub

Over the past school year, a team of LSX Fellows—assistant superintendent Tabitha Marino, researcher Susana Beltrán-Grimm, journalist Tara García Mathewson, principal Scott Miller, social entrepreneur Miroslava Rodríguez, principal Erica Slobodnik, and children’s book author Sheila Thomas—engaged in deep listening and feedback sessions with parents to design new tools that strengthen communication and relationships between families and schools.

At Lockley Elementary School, parents and caregivers expressed a need for more centralized communication, and a website that was easy to navigate on mobile devices. In response, Marino and the team of fellows designed a mobile-friendly website and an accompanying flyer embedded with a QR code, which parents can scan to quickly access the website. The flyer will go back and forth with students each day in their red take-home folders, and the website will be regularly updated with the resources that families need to be partners in their children’s learning.

Read more about the design process behind these innovations in our blog, "Designing Tools to Strengthen Communication and Relationships Between Families and Schools," and explore the policies that enable this type of collaboration in our brief, "What Parents Want: How Policies Can Spur School-to-Family Connections and Build Trust."