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April 16, 2020

Communication Examples: Sample Phone scripts, Emails, and More to Check-in with Families (Available in English & Spanish)

Looking to reach out to your students’ families but don’t know where to start? This guide from NYU contains sample email/text language, phone call scripts, and surveys in English and Spanish.

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April 6, 2020

Communication Example: How to Make Individual Phone Calls to Families

This Edutopia article has many good suggestions for how teachers can make phone calls home to families. “My biggest mistake was that I waited to make those calls. I was young and nervous. Once...

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April 6, 2020

“We’ve got to get this right”: Ideas for schools to support families during the pandemic

The following suggestions are from STEM Next’s recent blog post, “Supporting Families and COVID-19: We’ve Got to Get This Right.” Join their social media campaign to highlight your examples of these practices using the...

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March 31, 2020

Communication Examples: “Check-in” Surveys to Send All Families in a District

Example 1: In March 2020, Columbus City Schools sent a needs survey to all families and provided telephone hotlines to survey families in five languages other than English. The survey covered needs that families...

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March 23, 2020

Talking Points: A Free App Teachers and Families Can Use to Translate their Text Messages Back and Forth

Two-way communication between families and schools is extremely important. To ensure that all families can understand and benefit from school communications, families and teachers can download the FREE Talking Points translation app on their...

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March 17, 2020

How to talk to children and teens about Coronavirus

We found two helpful articles for you to use as you talk to your children/students about Coronavirus over the next few weeks: Age-specific tips for conversations with young children and teens from Psychology Today...

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February 5, 2020

Intentional Partnerships Podcast

“Each episode of the Intentional Partnerships Podcast offers an on-the-ground perspective from real people exploring their shared values around family engagement. Over the 11-episode season, you’ll hear from teachers, parents, district administrators, early childhood...

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January 14, 2020

Understanding and Incorporating Families’ Funds of Knowledge in the Classroom

This toolkit offers some historical perspective on the uses of Funds of Knowledge in education, and provides a Funds of Knowledge Inventory Matrix and other tools for teachers to use. “A student’s funds of...

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December 17, 2019

Recent Research for Schools on the Benefits of Communication with Families

We encourage educators to read the following recent papers on the benefits of regular communication with families: Houri, A. K., Thayer, A. J., & Cook, C. R. (2019). Targeting parent trust to enhance engagement...

Fact Sheet for non English proficient families

Communication / Communication with Schools / Early Childhood / Elementary School / For Families / For Schools / Middle & High School

December 5, 2019

Fact Sheet: Info for Families with Limited English Language Proficiency and for School Staff who Communicate with Them (Available in 11 Languages)

This fact sheet answers common questions about the rights of parents and guardians who do not speak, listen, read, or write English proficiently because it is not their primary language. Translations of the fact...

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