Thank you for submitting your resource, event, or news to the Maryland Families Engage website for early care and education providers, parents, and families. Please reference the guidelines below before submitting your resources; all content submitted must abide by these guidelines and our Terms and Conditions. If you have questions or difficulty completing the any of the submission forms, please contact us.

What Type of Content is Appropriate?

Maryland Families Engage features high-quality content on topics relating to family engagement and early learning with our statewide and national audiences. Examples of this include:

• Content that falls within one or more of our 11 featured topics: Community Partnerships, English Language Learners, Family Events, Family Partnerships, Grants/Funding Leadership, Life Events, Policies, Professional Development, Research, Special Needs, and Teaching and Learning.
• Short- or moderate-length articles, usually between 500 and 2,000 words. Topics might include family engagement success stories, programs, or initiatives.
• Produced and edited video clips between two and five minutes in duration.

How Does it Work?

If your program, center, school, college, or organization is interested in submitting content to be included on this website, please use the appropriate form linked below. Please include a one-paragraph description of your resources as well as the intended audience (families or education professionals).

We will contact you within one business week to notify you that we have received the materials. The materials will then go to a committee of experts for a decision about inclusion on the website. The entire process from submission to publication is approximately one month.

Event Submissions

All events on the Maryland Families Engage events calendar should:

• Promote family engagement, school readiness, positive parent-child relationships, and/or the benefits of family engagement
• Be open to the general public
• Be non-partisan and non-political
• Provide resources, training, entertainment, food or other activities to a diverse population of early care and education providers, parents and families

Please allow five to seven business days for event approval and posting. The Maryland State Department of Education’s Division of Early Childhood has the discretion to determine which public events will be included in this calendar.

MSDE Disclaimer of Endorsement:

Any reference obtained from this website to a specific event, activity, program or service does not constitute or imply an endorsement by the Maryland State Department of Education, Johns Hopkins University, or the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of the event, activity, program or service, or its organizer, producer or provider. The views and opinions expressed in any referenced document do not necessarily state or reflect those of the Maryland State Department of Education, Johns Hopkins University, or the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.