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Engaging families in my practices can influence student learning, classroom community and identity development by building relationships that enable students to learn and grow in a supportive and safe environment.  When we all work together, students have a greater chance of success and growth.
Cheryl Bencivenga-Sanchez

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Kareen's assignment (back-up link)
https://flipgrid.com/s/UWbywCimtfLp

Rubric example (will have to be changed for new project)

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Read:

Snyder, S. & Staehr-Fenner, D. (2021). Culturally-responsive teaching for multilingual learners: Tools for equity. Corwin. Chapters 7 & 8

Watch:

https://www.edutopia.org/article/using-diversity-build-culture-belonging

Post:

1. SKETCH your notes about the reading, making visible relationships among teachers, students, parents, communities, questions, physical environment organization, body positioning, social emotional states, collaboration, languages used/not used, who is talking more/less, etc.

2. SHARE: Use google drawing or a regular notebook to represent your thinking. Post your sketch/drawing by taking a picture, screenshot of it or by providing the link to it.

3. REFLECT: In what ways can engaging families in your practices influence student learning, classroom community and identity development? Post a short, Twitter-like 208-character response.

Comment:
Choose three peers' posts to comment on: What have you learned from their sketches/drawings? Please share insights, questions, reactions, opinions, etc.

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Using Diversity to Build a Culture of Belonging

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Academics and social skills are equally prioritized at this multilingual elementary school in Chicago, ranked one of the best in the city.

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Individually, use 5 sense sketch notes to brainstorm on what you would like your ideal classroom to feel like, smell like, taste like, sound like, and look like. be as detailed as you can! 😊

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Use the 5 Senses Graphic Organizer to organize your ideas about the topic.

Use previous articles, reading material, videos and read alouds to gather all that you already know.

Here is an example using SPRING:

Add a COLOUR to what your topic is about: Spring is COLOURFUL

Add how the topic makes you FEEL: It makes me feel energetic and ready to run under the cherry blossom trees!

Look over your graphic organizer very carefully and choose your favourite one from each sense and create a detailed sentence on this graphic organizer.

This is a DRAFT so make change, edit and carefully look over your work to see how to make it better.

Once you are ready, use the good copy page to publish your work.

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Use the 5 Senses Graphic Organizer to organize your ideas about the topic. Use previous articles, reading material, videos and read alouds to gather all that you already know. Here is an example using SPRING: Add a COLOUR to what your topic is about: Spring is COLOURFUL Add how the topic makes you FEEL: It makes me feel energetic and ready to run under the cherry blossom trees!

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1) Read Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 in "Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners" by Snyder and Staehr-Fenner and listen to the SupportEd webinar.
2) Explain ways in which your ideal classroom features and connect to the five principles for culturally-responsive education outlined in "Culturally Responsive Teaching for Multilingual Learners" by Snyder and Staehr-Fenner (see p. 22-27).

3) Post your answer to this padlet as a comment to this post. You can take a picture of your sketch notes and post it as an attachment or you can write your answer in narrative form.

4) Choose three peers' posts to comment on: How similar or different are your classrooms/sessions? What would you add or change to your own classroom/session based on your peers' ideas? React to their posts by liking, commenting, etc.

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Using Diversity to Build a Culture of Belonging

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Parents and teachers share a responsibility to help their children/students learn. Involving families can influence student learning by reducing behavior issues in the classroom.  It also increases students' performances by encouraging them to attend extra help or extracurricular activities. The teacher can also share advice about how families can reinforce skills at home.