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1. Sacrifices are motivated by parent's aspirations.

2. Engagement involves greater risk due to undocumented status - HIGH COST.

3. Connections to Lopez article - Looks different - celebrating cultural capital. Non-traditional engagement.

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1. Family engagement is crucial for student success during the transition to high school

2. Family engagement often declines in high school without proactive outreach.

3. Effective practices include orientation events, clear communication, and family-educator interactions.

4. Schools benefit from structured, continuous improvement plans to engage families

5. Key strategies: structured engagement plans, two-way communication, parent resources, and ongoing evaluation.

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Families demonstrate agency in different ways. Traditional frameworks for engagement must be challenged.

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1. Teacher stability reflects

the control teachers have over their work environments.

2. Schools that have inclusive leadership and a strong sense of collaboration.

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1. Achievement for All (AfA) was successful in narrowing the achievement gap between students with and without Special Education Needs & Disabilities.

2. 3 Main Strands in AfA - Assessment Tracking & Interventions; Structured conversations with families (1 hour; 3x/year); Wider Outcomes (Attendance, behavior & relationships).

3. Structured Conversations most successful strand and considered to be essential.

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Underscore the value of intentional and planned conversations with families as an essential component. These conversations also lead to improvement in building trusting relationships which has impact on both attendance and behavior.

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1. Parent Teacher Home Visits (PTHV) focuses on implicit bias and midset shifts. We all have implicit bias. It is part of cognition, but can be changed.

2. As a result of PTHV Families saw educators as approachable partners which led to more convidence in reaching out. Educators moved away from deficit-based assumptions and saw families care and concern for their children, increasing their empathy and understanding.

3. This resulted in an educator behavior changes - more empathetic discipline approaches and more regularly incorporating student interests and cultural backgrounds in class procedures.

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Beliefs drive behavior!

PTHV Model is effective approach for shifting mindset, disrupting cycles of bias, and building stronger, more equitable partnerships.

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Improving working conditions is crucial for retaining teachers - especially in schools serving disadvantaged students.

Teachers are likely to stay when they feel supported by leadership; see themselves as part of a collaborative team (high level of trust and respect); and feel safe at school.

Elementary teachers - stability is linked to teacher perceptions of parents as partners.

Secondary teachers - stability is linked to lower rates of student disciplinary problems.

Emphasize PD for both admin and teachers. Admin - Collaborative Management and Shared Decision-Making. Teachers - Class Disciplinary Strategies and Building Trusting Relationships with Families.

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Collaborative - Utilize a jigsaw or scavenger hunt activity to find info for policy and procedures. Maybe a mentimeter activity

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Parent panel where parents share some of the policies and procedures, myth busters style?

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Provide families with some questions ahead of the conference for families to ask during the meeting.

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Interactive: hands on navigating the parent portal

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Asset-Based - Posters hanging around the main meeting space, or entryway, with various policies and procedures that you want draw families attention to. Provide sticky dots or small page flags for families to vote on. Possibly sticky notes for more input.

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Asset-Based/Collaborative - Provide families questions that they can ask during the conferences and sharing data/artifacts prior to the conference so families have an idea what to expect.

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Relational - Ask about hopes and dreams. If hopes and dreams have already been established, revisit this to support conversations about what the teacher and family are doing to support the hopes and dreams. Do we need anything from each other to make the hopes and dreams happen/continue.