Family Engagement

Rocking and Rolling. Using Materials Creatively to Enhance Toddler Learning Environments

In this article, we offer three strategies we have found helpful for enhancing toddlers’ learning environments.

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Engaging Families of Multilingual Learners: Using Families’ Stories to Link Classroom Content with Children’s Funds of Knowledge

Teachers can use technology as a tool to create equitable learning environments that celebrate families' funds of knowledge.

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Message in a Backpack™. Los beneficios de hablar el idioma de origen en el seno de la familia

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Using Pláticas as an Inclusive and Responsive Approach in Early Learning Settings

By integrating pláticas, or sustained conversations, into their settings, educators focus on children’s strengths, interests, and abilities linked to their home languages and cultures.

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Honoring Home Languages: Strategies to Encourage Preschoolers’ Translanguaging Practices

By encouraging children’s translanguaging, educators create equitable learning settings that nurture children's sense of belonging.

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Message in a Backpack™. Benefits When Families Speak Their Home Languages

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6X. Six Ways Educators Can Honor Home Languages

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Embracing Linguistic Diversity to Support Multilingual Learners

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7X. Dare to Roar: Tapping Families’ Expertise to Guide Planning and Teaching

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Individualizing Approaches Through Intentional Practice: A Family Educator’s Experience

In this article, we share examples of intentional practices in a family child care setting, and we highlight how these approaches can be adapted by educators in other types of programs to foster an inclusive learning community.

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Planning for Individuality in Preschool Spaces

This article outlines ways that educators can identify children’s unique strengths and abilities, then offers examples of individualized lesson plans for different times and activities during the day.