Categorías: Todo - inclusion - empathy - partnerships - collaboration

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Successful Partnerships with Parents and Community

Establishing successful partnerships with parents and the community necessitates overcoming discriminatory biases and systemic barriers. Key strategies include offering translators during meetings and utilizing various online platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and School-Day to maintain consistent communication.

Successful Partnerships with Parents and Community

Successful Partnerships with Parents and Community

Self Advocate

Workshops to understand IEP and parent role
Opportunities to voice concerns Welcoming different perspectives.

Emotional Intelligence

Empathy: Listening and understanding various perspectives
Build Trust with all stakeholders

How to Overcome discriminatory biases and systemic barriers

Parent Involvement Committee and School Council
Casual conversations before and after school
Use various online platforms to communicate. E.g., Twitter, Facebook, School-Day
Translators available during meetings
Materials available in multiple languages

Epstein's Framework

Collaborating with community: Involving community interest in school projects: Outdoor learning, food gardens
Decision Making: Parent Involvement committee, School council
Learning at Home: Home reading, Family activities like making play-doh to practice measurement
Volunteering: Multiple volunteering opportunities based on parent interest
Communicating: Use multiple ways to communicate in multiple languages, use translation apps like Deepl and Talking points to communicate in students home language
Parenting: workshops, settlement worker, social worker, curriculum nights

Vision: Parents are welcomed, respected, and valued by the school community as partners in their children's learning and development

Welcoming environment. Parents are partners
Parents are part of various school committees. Are involved in decision making at school
Positive climate that is safe and secure