Home-School Interaction with Culturally or Language Diverse Families

Book Description

This handbook for educators emphasizes the need to recognize and build upon parent stregths in order to create strong connections between home and school. Topics addressed include transformative education, educational reform, parents as educators, parents as authors and protagonists, language development at home, and the value of bilingualism.

Field tested, easy-to-implement activities and approaches, as well as sample letters to parents in English and Spanish