NEWCOMER TOOL KIT
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CHAPTER 5<br />
PROFESSIONAL REFLECTION AND<br />
DISCUSSION ACTIVITY GUIDE<br />
THE THREE A’S (CORE COMPONENTS)<br />
OF FAMILY ENGAGEMENT PROGRAMS FOR <strong>NEWCOMER</strong>S<br />
When school communities design family engagement programs for newcomers, they should consider including in<br />
their plans three core components or areas of focus:<br />
• Academic Success: strengthening newcomer families’ capacity to support academic achievement by<br />
increasing their awareness of instructional programs and ways they can support their own child’s learning<br />
• Advocacy and Decision making: strengthening families’ understanding of how to advocate for their<br />
child and participate in decisions to improve learning for their children and others in the school<br />
• Awareness and use of Resources: strengthening families’ awareness of resources available in the school<br />
and community and how to access them to support their family’s well-being as well as their own personal<br />
growth<br />
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION • <strong>NEWCOMER</strong> <strong>TOOL</strong> <strong>KIT</strong> • CHAPTER 5 • 18<br />
No official endorsement by the Department of any product, commodity, service, enterprise, curriculum, or program of instruction<br />
mentioned in this publication is intended or should be inferred. For the reader’s convenience, the tool kit contains information about<br />
and from outside organizations, including URLs. Inclusion of such information does not constitute the Department’s endorsement.
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