This resource provides tools and resources for ensuring meaningful communication with limited English proficient parents. This resource has been provided by the U.S. Department of Education as part of the EL Tool Kit.
Material Type: Reading
This guide is found on the Colorín Colorado website. This guide shares twenty big ideas to help school leaders build a strong home-school partnership.
Material Type: Reading
Get ready for the start of school with some of PBS LearningMedia's favorite back-to-school resources! This collection features activities and video resources to help students get to know each other and their new school routines, and lesson plans to help you get your new class off to a great start.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game, Interactive, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy
This book contains 10 easy picture stories for beginning students of English. The stories have a Lexile level of 100L-500L and address common home and school situations. Each story includes images, self-correcting comprehension exercises, and a conversation prompt.
Material Type: Textbook
This checklist may assist you in bridging your child’s transition from home to school and give your child the best chance at success in learning and life. While your child’s education begins at home, this tool provides you with a set of questions to ask and important issues to consider when approaching your child’s teachers, principals, and counselors about their development. It can be hard to know how to support your child’s learning as a parent or caregiver, but asking your child’s educators the right questions is a good place to start.
Material Type: Primary Source
This website provides interpretation resources included below that are not necessarily endorsed by the U.S. Department of Justice or the Federal Interagency Working Group on LEP. Still, they are suggested for supporting English learner families. Here you will find videos, Federal resources, and other resources that will guide you in seeking interpretation services.
Material Type: Primary Source
This website provides resources that provide the first steps in building a partnership with English language learners (ELLs) families. This is to make sure that they feel welcome at their child's school. This resource section includes ideas that all members of the school community can try!
Material Type: Primary Source
The Department of Education is sharing this checklist that parents can use to ask school leaders during back-to-school and beyond about how they are supporting students. The strategies in this checklist support students’ learning, mental health, and overall well-being.
Material Type: Reading
