ELL Family Outreach
Guides
Videos
- A warm welcome for immigrant families in the front office
- Becoming Bilingual: Parents as Partners
- Bobbi Houtchens: Considerations for Adolescent ELLs (Part 4 of 4)
- Communicating effectively with parents about student needs and services
- Community ties
- Different cultural expectations about schools
- ELL parent engagement in Middle School
- ELL Parent Outreach: Tips for Success
- In search of a better life
- Including parents in the special education referral process
- Jessica Panfil: Parent Outreach in Dual-Language Schools
- Our parents value education and their children's teachers
- Parent-Teacher Conferences: Secrets for Success
- Partnerships with ELL parents
- Reaching out to Latino families
- Strategy: Parent Letters
- Title VI requires a competent interpreter for parents
- Title VI requires all communication in a language parents understand
Articles
- A Hidden Language: Supporting Students Who Speak Mixtec
- Bilingual Family Night for ELL Families
- Building Relationships in a Bicultural World
- Communicating Important Information with ELL Families: Strategies for Success
- Communicating with ELL Families: 10 Strategies for Schools
- Connecting with ELL Families: Strategies for Success
- Drawing Upon Strong Community Support: Meeting Immigrant Families’ Needs During Uncertain Times
- Empowering ELL Parents & Families at Home
- Encouraging and Sustaining ELL Parent Engagement
- Engaging ELL Families Through Community Partnerships
- Engaging ELL Parents as Leaders
- Engaging Latino Families: Learning from an Autism Screening Program at a Community Based Clinic
- English Language Learners in Special Education: How to Partner With Your Students' Families
- From the Classroom: Working with Chinese ELLs
- Getting to Know Our Families’ Cultural and Social Assets: The View from Dearborn, MI
- Helping Parents Become Partners
- Honoring Family in the Classroom
- How to Build Partnerships with Immigrant Families
- How to Build Relationships with Immigrant Families
- How to Reach Out to Parents of ELLs
- How to Use Technology to Engage Multilingual Families
- Introduction: Strategies for Engaging ELL Families
- Lessons Learned from Immigrant Families
- Making Students and Families Feel Welcome
- New Freedom Park and the Immigrant Families Who Designed It
- Reaching Out to Hispanic Students and Families
- Six Reasons Why ELL Family Outreach Is Working in Brockton, MA
- Supporting Indigenous Latinx Students' Success in U.S. Schools
- Tips for Successful Parent-Teacher Conferences with Multilingual Families
- When We Stop Counting: An Interview with Supt. Kyle McGowan
The first step in building a partnership with the families of English language learners (ELLs) 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!