Parent & Community Engagement

Parent & Community Engagement

Created by: Rebecca Walker

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Family-School Partnerships

Strengths

Weaknesses

How can we engage diverse families in strengthening student learning in and out of school?

What is already having a positive impact? What are we doing well?

What indicates problems? What are we not doing so well?

Opportunities

Threats

What are the barriers that are interfering with efforts to engage our families in their child's learning?

Based on strenghts and weaknesses, what are the opportunities for growth?

identifying Strengths

Our school does an excellent job collaborating with the community. Throughout the year, we put on several events for our students and families that bring them together:-Culture Festival -Academic Night -Family Fit Night -Back to School Nights -Parent/Teacher Conferences

identifying weaknesses

• Overall need for better/more translation services for staff and families
• More resources available in varying languages to meet all families needs
• Staff needing to know which families require/prefer interpreters

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Identifying Opportunities

• Teachers need to maintain the mindset that ML students are general education students first
• Homeroom teachers should reach out to families instead of ML teacher
• Provide better/more direct connection with ML families

Identifying Threats

• Staff not knowing how to utilize translation services for communication
• Staff being unaware of preferred languages
• Lack of interpreters and language resources

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