 When we talk about connecting with the families of our students, it often reflects a posture of teaching them how to be better parents. For instance, we'll have literacy nights to teach them how to be better instructors, and we'll host conferences to teach them how to teach their children, regulate their emotions, and we'll bring in guest speakers that might teach them about some up and coming topic, like the science of reading is really hot right now. But I found that we rarely adopt approaches that indicate our interest in what families can teach us.