NEWCOMER TOOL KIT
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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 />
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