This brief, Putting Families at the Center: The Role of Parent Advocacy Groups during COVID-19, will give district, intermediary, and school leaders ideas on how and why to connect families to advocacy groups that support and empower families (CRPE).
Culturally Responsive Education Hub
ideas such as: • Video discussions – Could a parent/guardian in a front-line worker profession share the upsides and downsides of their role during COVID-19? Or could a parent/guardian in an arts or design profession lead a group discussion about their work process? Or could a multilingual parent/guardian lead a book club for multilingual learners? …
Maintaining Relationships in a Time of Social Distancing
A toolbox offers tips and actions for helping teachers maintain relationships with families despite social distancing, such as: • Reflecting on any assumptions they might have about how families “should” educate or care for their children during isolation. • Reaching all their students’ families in their home languages through apps such as Talking Points (free …
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Tools for Educators to Listen to and Learn from Families During COVID-19 School Closures
A guide for family engagement that offers sample scripts and surveys for outreach in both Spanish and English. Other strategies for engagement are offered.
Family Engagement Resources in Spanish
Research-backed and culturally relevant materials including a Webinar: Distance Learning with Common Sense: Equitable Distance Learning for English Learners
Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Family Engagement in the Time of COVID-19 and Remote Learning, and Always
Provides guidance for districts, schools, and educators who want to deepen family engagement and continue to foster learning during the pandemic, and for parent and community groups advocating for stronger and more community-connected practices in their schools.
Learning Hero Roadmap
A bilingual “roadmap” parents can use to help keep their children on track with math, reading, life skills, and more while school is closed.
Congrove Distance Learning Model
A distance learning plan that contains clear, concise language on: a distance-learning theory of action (page 2); Sample schedules (pages 3 and 5); Weekly individual learning plans and after-school support (page 4); Structures and operations for non-instructional staff (pages 6); Instructional design and delivery (pages 7-10); Learning community for school and family (pages 11-12); Systems …
Family and Community Engagement Planning Tool
Contains a series of questions that school systems can ask themselves to determine how to make the most of two other recent resources: 1.TNTP’s Five Essentials for Engaging Families and Community Partners in Reopening EffortsTNTP’s Five Essentials for Engaging Families and Community Partners in Reopening EffortsTNTP’s Five Essentials for Engaging Families and Community Partners in …
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Virtual Coffee Hour
A toolkit for educators that helps them share resources about Google’s technology with families and guardians.