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Each school should have a family liason.

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Most of our families speak Spanish and we have all communication translated into Spanish as well as English. For the other languages, if translation is needed, we as an ESOL team take the time to translate important documents, even down to homework. For example, I translate a 1st graders homework to Portuguese to help her parents help her at home with homework.

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Have staff engage in Language Ambassador Training (free 1.5 hour asynchronous training through doe.mass.edu).

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I’ve created a parent interview for parents before they entered school to get more background knowledge. We have instant translators, training office staff, created community events 2 a year.

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District and school level preplanning before the school starts. Schools need to know their incoming MLLs and prepare.

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We have dedicated time slots available for interpretation services throughout the day.

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I'd like to try to convince our admin that prfessional translators are necessary--not just relying on multilingual staff members for all conversations.

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Building relationships with families so not only do they know what resources are available to them, but so they truly feel that they are NOT a burden using these.

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Something that might benefit our school district is some culturally appropriate training for office staff and transportation. I am also excited about the opportunity to confirm with families what is working and what has been a struggle in regards to access.

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Educate classroom teachers on communicating with multilingual families so that there is shared responsibility for supporting all families.

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Language Line. Some way to know if parents are comfortable in their L1.

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Multilingual focus or subgroups for PTA/PTO meetings to encourage involvement from a diverse group of families

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Training for office staff

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Making sure each school has translated documents in the most frequent languages

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Make sure all office staff, counselors, nurses, and admin are aware of the tools our district has to assist families that don't speak English. Also train them in those tools.

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Asking parents what would help them the most rather than assume we know

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Each school should have a bilingual liason for families and students that speak another language.

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Invite the ML staff to the table to be part of building level and district level conversations. They are the ones in the day to day and can best help plan forward.

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Building an understanding of the "Belonging Quadrants" from equity work. Ensuring collective responsibility and that they are all OUR students.

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We invite new ML families at the beginning of the year to attend a short presentation on the logistics and procedures at our school. We gather information from our office staff and nurse and try to translate info into diff languages

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Build relationships and systems with teachers and staff about how to best use Spanish speaking services

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Making sure parents are aware of their rights options and are comfortable accessing them.

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1. Ensure incoming parents know their rights and know they have access to an interpreter.

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In-person registration events for technology support

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Train office staff on using electronic translating devices

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Something that we use to help multilingual families is have one of our main forms of communication be Class Dojo, an app that can translate over 130 languages

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Gather input from front office staff and ML families to identify gaps

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On-demand interpretation services over the phone.