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CHAPTER 2<br />

PROFESSIONAL REFLECTION AND DISCUSSION ACTIVITY GUIDE<br />

CONSULTATION SHEET:<br />

Characteristics of Effective Practices to<br />

Engage Newcomer Parents and Families<br />

Schools can foster strong parent engagement partnerships with newcomer parents by supporting the particular<br />

needs of newcomer students and their families with effective policies and practices. Strong partnerships with<br />

newcomers, and the effective policies and practices that support them, exhibit most of the following characteristics:<br />

co-construction and collaboration, capacity development, assets orientation, language supports, continuous<br />

improvement, and diversified structures and processes.<br />

Characteristic<br />

Co-construction and<br />

Collaboration<br />

Capacity<br />

Development<br />

Assets Orientation<br />

Multimodal<br />

Communications and<br />

Language Supports<br />

Continuous<br />

Improvement<br />

Brief Description<br />

Bring newcomer parents and staff together to co-construct meaningful<br />

communications and resources for parents and to collaborate in the delivery of<br />

learning and support activities for parents.<br />

Build newcomers’ and staff’s capacities to effectively carry out the multiple<br />

engagement roles (advocate, supporter, encourager, decision-maker, etc.) expected<br />

of parents.<br />

Build partnerships that listen to and hear parents and strive to meet high<br />

expectations, aspirations, and hopes as they draw on newcomers’ culture,<br />

language, knowledge, and skills.<br />

Use multiple methods and structures to communicate and ensure that language<br />

supports are available for all educational communications and activities.<br />

Continuously improve family engagement by examining multiple data sources for<br />

impact of policies and practices on the newcomers.<br />

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION • <strong>NEWCOMER</strong> <strong>TOOL</strong> <strong>KIT</strong> • CHAPTER 2 • 22<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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