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THE PRACTICE: Positive Perspectives on Parents and Families of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students - There is an ongoing participation in dialogue with students, parents, and community members on issues important to them, along with the inclusion of these individuals and issues in classroom curriculum and activities.
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Content Presented By:
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The Education Alliance at Brown University
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What is it?
Parents are a child's first teacher and are critically important partners to both students and teachers. To help parents become aware of how they can be effective partners in the education process, teachers engage in dialogue with parents as early as possible about parents' hopes for their child, their sense of what the child needs, and suggestions about ways teachers can help.
Teachers explain their own limitations and invite parents to participate in specific ways. Attention to verbal and body language are important in communicating acceptance of parents as partners. Interpreters make parents more comfortable about expressing complex concepts in a new language.
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