Family engagement is critical to student achievement, and the essential importance of family-school partnerships has become even more evident during the current sociohistorical context inclusive of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement. As such, it is imperative that pre-service teachers (PSTs) are equipped to build effective relationships in a virtual environment with families from diverse backgrounds, experiences, and histories. In this paper, we highlight our role as teacher educators in ensuring that PSTs know how to forge authentic partnerships with families, and how to continue developing these necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities even during these challenging times of social distancing, often in a virtual environment or setting. We discuss this in the context of how we shifted a critically reflective, process-oriented, relationship-focused face-to-face (F2F) family engagement course that uses experiential learning, to a fully online course during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recommendations for teacher educators are discussed.