Who is a Learning Hero?
Educators, families, and anyone who helps unlock a child's potential to pursue their passion and purpose.
Nearly 90% of parents believe their child is at or above grade level*, but only about 50% are. This disconnect hinders parents’ ability to fully support their child’s success, including prioritizing regular attendance.
When families and educators team up, students and schools win. 
Research shows that schools with strong family engagement pre-pandemic experienced much smaller increases in chronic absence post-pandemic and have had slightly better achievement scores. To learn more about why teaming up matters, check out these new resources: the Education Recovery Scorecard, a blog on stemming chronic absenteeism, and new data insights on the impact of family engagement.
*B-flation: How Good Grades Can Sideline Parents, Gallup 2023
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Transform the way your school partners with families! Designed for school and district leaders, our training and coaching leads to family engagement strategies that directly impact student learning and well-being.
Listening to Educators Around Learning and Thinking Differences
Building on The Parent Journey, our 2023 survey of families, this new research offers the teacher and principal perspective on teaming up with families of children with learning differences. This was part of our participation in the NeuroEquity Research Collaborative (NERC), led and funded by Understood.org.
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*B-Flation: How "Good Grades" Can Sideline Parents, Gallup 2023 October 2023 National Gallup Poll
**School Pulse Panel 2022-2023, Institute of Education Sciences (IES)
Perception vs. Reality
Almost 9 in 10 parents think their kids are at or above grade level*.
What percentage of students are at grade level**?
Learning Heroes works with states, districts, schools and trusted organizations that want to strengthen school-home partnerships to advance student outcomes. We’re grateful for these partnerships and many more.