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What might this look like at the classroom, building, or district level?

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What might this look like at the classroom, building, or district level?

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What might this look like at the classroom, building, or district level?

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What might this look like at the classroom, building, or district level?

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What might this look like at the classroom, building, or district level?

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Building - Offer childcare for Open House night

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Building - Offer childcare for Open House night

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District - Offer school lunches that reflect a variety of cultures.

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District - Offer school lunches that reflect a variety of cultures.

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Begin translating all newsletters

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Invite parents with science-related jobs (doctors, engineers, biologists) to speak about their careers.

Record these sessions for families who can’t attend live.

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Attend Medfield Day

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Creating a padlet of student project and sharing with home for families to view.

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Add a column on the weekly HW chart that gives an overview of what topics will be covered in your class that week.

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Include discussion questions in monthly newsletter to encourage conversations about science topics that have been covered in the classroom

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Having a culture night where students can express their cultures and religions in a way that students and staff can learn

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Compiled a list of experiences near Boston to supplement social studies interests. Reached out to library to help curate a book list as well for students who are interested in history, geography, etc

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Book displays in the library celebrating cultures and celebratory "months" of honor

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Discuss holidays in advisory that are important to different cultures but might not be as main stream in Medfield.

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Library books that reflect wide variety of cultures, etc.

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Having a consistent hub for parents to access so they do not have information coming from many different platforms

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Hosting open houses where students can display projects from various classes (creative writing, creature features, projects, artwork, etc)

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Send word home to families at the start of bigger projects with objectives, due dates, materials needed, and overview of work to be done.

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Employ students to record events link our 'turkey bowl' or volleyball tournament and share on youtube. Promote community fitness opportunities- local 5k's, yoga events etc.

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Utilize concerts as opportunities for families to share input/ask questions about their child's music experience - i.e. what's going well, what supports do they need, how can they engage with their child at home in music-based activities

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Providing time for parents and teachers to meet and share what is going on in school / get to know one another

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Invite caregiver volunteers to help with building our pollinator garden or to visit during the trout release for sceince exploration in 7th grade

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When students get assessments signed, there is a place for comments and it has been a place where some ELL families have felt comfortable writing me a note.  

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When students get assessments signed, there is a place for comments and it has been a place where some ELL families have felt comfortable writing me a note.  

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Continue to seek suggestions on holiday music and make an effort to write out melodies/song sheets that reflect a wider variety of family traditions

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Connect families through a "parent buddy system" based on a mutual desire to learn more and stay compassionately connected as a town.

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Invite parents from different cultural/religious backgrounds to talk about their holidays and how they are celebrated.

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Provide opportunities for parents of students with diverse profiles to meet on a regular basis for social networking and sharing strategies for best supporting their students.

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Make information about translation services easier to find for both staff and families.

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Provide in person or digital opportunities for parents to talk about how they help their children at home. Teacher would moderate, but the focus would be on how parents seek to assist/support their children.

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Welcome to Medfield, -ex. bus tour, walking tour, Rocky Woods -comnnection to New n'Town?

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Providing supplemental 'play along' videos that help students navigate practicing on their own at home/'how to' materials for families that give step by step instructions for practicing at home

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School: Maybe we could make a "traveling math museum" with our grade 8 crafts. They could travel to the town hall, library, local businesses, etc... (maryellen & Susan)

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School: Maybe we could make a "traveling math museum" with our grade 8 crafts. They could travel to the town hall, library, local businesses, etc... (maryellen & Susan)

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I liked the article idea of creating QR codes for some essential docs to help families access them easier. We can work with the maker space to create stickers or magnets to help families access school information.

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Ask families to come in share experiences around cultures and holidays experienced by the majority of students

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Ask families to come in share experiences around cultures and holidays experienced by the majority of students

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Invite small groups of kids to have lunch with a teacher or group of teachers to talk in a non-academic informal way.

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Develop more consistent identification of and response to families with high rates of absences / tardies. Establish a stronger culture of collaboration with families who need support getting their kids to school consistently.

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Created studying schedule for parents so they can help their child prepare for an upcoming test. Various activities included and positive thanks and feedback from parents

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District: could our next district book club involve a book about a particular culture (we have a few students from Brazil, for example) (maryellen & Susan)

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District: could our next district book club involve a book about a particular culture (we have a few students from Brazil, for example) (maryellen & Susan)

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Let's teach the parents too!

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Use more forms of communication besides email - different apps (Talking Points?)

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Parents/caregivers can read what we are reading and I could include book club questions around the current novel or short story so families can engage in conversations.

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School: could we have translators for common languages that come to open house so they are "at the ready" when families come. Even if they are not needed it makes a statement (maryellen&Susan)

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School: could we have translators for common languages that come to open house so they are "at the ready" when families come. Even if they are not needed it makes a statement (maryellen&Susan)

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Allow students the opportunity to take ownership and pride in their school by showing parents around the school/through their schedule and introducing them to their teachers (alternate approach to back to school night).

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In addition to buddy partners for new students, maybe families could offer to "mentor" new families in town. Host some sort of new family night where people meet and connect.

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Communicate with parents when assessments are to be given, and let them know when extra help opportunities (before and after the assessment) are available

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Invite caregivers to share their student's culture through our padlets and other formats we often reserve for just staff.

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Invite caregivers to share their student's culture through our padlets and other formats we often reserve for just staff.

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Design project based, cross-curricular units/projects that involve community businesses or organizations

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This outreach should be more inclusive of all students during the mid-terms, not just the students who are struggling. It would be good to give parents positive feedback too.

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I have seen other schools display flags that represent where students / families are from. Have an interactive map that displays information, photos, facts from cultures that are represented at the school.

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Consolidate and/or be consistent/intentional in terms of timing information is being sent home from school (newsletters, etc). I’d imagine if you have kids in more than one school, both the amount of emails you get and when they come can be overwhelming. Is there an opportunity to either make sure info all goes out at the same time and/or consolidate department news into principal newsletters, etc.?

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I created a simple worksheet activity in which students have to interview an adult in their life about their experiences with jury duty. If students can't find an adult to interview then I allow them to interview me. I feel as though it's a fun way for students and care-givers to connect over the curriculum.

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I'd love to explore implementing student led conferences and digital portfolio use

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Send home curated "talking points" from the curriculum to help parents engage with their children and stay informed about the topics being taught in school.

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Continue to develop a music mentoring program that connects older musicians with beginning musicians - free of cost!

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One sentence from each teacher - about what went on over the course of the week, and what is coming up next. Ask your child about this...

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I'm thinking about a way to communicate where there's a point person or a place where families can receive streamlined communication around updates and information. An app? A point person? A cluster newsletter?

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Host a fun but educational half day where students can put booths together showcasing important parts of their cultures or traditions. Parents and community members could be invited to view the booths set up.

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Writing can be cathartic and powerful, especially when shared with others who are open to listen and learn. This would not be shared with kids.

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With some specific details and pictures about what is going on in each class.

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Assign projects and writing assignments to learn about students' traditions and backgrounds

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Assign projects and writing assignments to learn about students' traditions and backgrounds

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Spend some of our PD time learning about religions/cultures/perspectives on school that are important to our students' families. Maybe snacks from those cultures, too!

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Meet with your teacher on a weekend day at Dunkin's or a soccer field

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Meet with your teacher on a weekend day at Dunkin's or a soccer field

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"Come meet up with your math teacher, answer a math problem...earn a munchkin."

This is just an example - ways to meet up with students and their families in the places that they go.

Go to a location to meet up with teacher. Meet on their turf.

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Can everyone use the same translate signature in emails?

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Can everyone use the same translate signature in emails?

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For events like the Blake marathon etc.

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It would be great to have interpreters available at whole school events - open house, parent conferences, etc.

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Would love to have translators available for Open House, Conferences and other school-based events. Not provided when asked, but provided based on the data within ASPEN that tells us the primary language spoken in the home.

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Establish Peer-Buddies to encourage participation in Clubs and Extracurricular activities

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Communicate concert dates across multiple platforms - and share out the concerts of other ensembles and encourage students/families to come watch/support the other performing groups.

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I am going to try and making video clips of answers to our most asked questions. I'll post these to our website and perhaps have them translated as well to our most common languages. All 6th-12th students have a device (owned or borrowed) so this would give access to this info at home for everyone.

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Make 1 of the days have evening options for teacher conferences

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Have a cultural heritage night and / or have flags from different countries hanging to represent the different cultures present in the building

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Survey all students and staff about cultural background and hang flags representing all in common places in the school (entrance, cafe, counseling office)

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I would love to see more events that occur either in the school day, after school, or evening where the school community can come together and celebrate-- along the lines of science fairs, Night of Belonging (poetry share), guest performers, art shows, etc. Families can be involved in the planning and participation too.

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Communicating extracurricular activities from local sources for students wanting to extend learning beyond the classroom.

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Translating emails home before they go out - not just relying on families using the translation link at the bottom to access if they need to. (Thanks MGR)

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Cultural background project in advisory?Students can have the opportunity to learn more about their own culture, and share/teach it with others.

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When teaching lessons that may involve a culture or religion that is underrepresented spend a few minutes learning about it with students in class.

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Invite Parent or Family members to be a guest speaker if they have experience in financial literacy topics (Adv. Alg Financial Literacy course)

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Be able to record in-person events, or have more recordings of programming available to parents/guardians.

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When to run through Google instead of through the district translation services.

Some type of two way app that helps support easy translation.

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Create poster with common phrases in variety of languages spoken by my students.

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Conferences allow us to reach out to families to try to boost engagement and input. Particularly in the Spring, it’s nice to invite households that I haven’t personally connected with throughout the year.

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Pick a day where we work as a school with community and DPW to do a work project in town.

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Field Trip Hub connected to Schoolbucks account

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Field Trip Hub connected to Schoolbucks account

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A central payment & field trip form sign-off for easy access for teachers, admin, and nurses ---this has worked successfully in my kids' school district.

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Try to identify those kids that don't play a sport, music, theater, clubs etc.. .and make sure they are involved in something they are interested in even if it means starting a new club.

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May host a culture event, then learn culture from there.

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Shorten the night too - so that it makes more accessible

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Have more courses and opportunities available for non-college bound students.

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Thinking something like a cultural fair would be good. Also, adding what holidays families celebrate to Aspen so we can be sensitive to it. Also wondering what happened to the flags we were going to put up in the cafeteria?

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Link a google form to all emails that go home that says "Questions/Suggestions" that families can fill out anonymously.

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Offer babysitting services or kids can come to parent night

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Offer babysitting services or kids can come to parent night

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Open House - expectations - entire family including babies attended the MHS Open House. Loved that they all came but wondering if the family understood what an open house was. Another person in our group commented that they had a similar experience at another school where a family didn't understand the what a "field trip" was.

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Add pictures from the classroom into newsletters showing a glimpse into the classroom (eg. lab, activity)

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Slides with Medfield places, Medfield-lingo, etc. for new students & families

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We discussed providing translators at events like PIN, conferences, etc. I also would like to see the onus for translations taken off the parents: providing a Google link doesn’t feel as inclusive as providing the translations ourselves. I copy all important emails into Google Translate for my kids whose parents speak other languages. I’ve never had more than 2 students at a time, so it’s not that hard. But with a bigger pool of non-English speakers it’d be hard. Could we designate someone in the Curriculum/Innnovation office to be a go-to translator for important communications, if we tell them what languages we need?

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Continue to share taught study strategies that are given to students so parents can monitor or guide student with study strategies at home

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Have teachers prerecord introductions about class work and expectations so when caregivers are in the school there might be an opportunity to engage with families and learn a little about them.