Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations
Elevating Home Experiences and Classroom Practices for Collective Care
- 198 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations
Elevating Home Experiences and Classroom Practices for Collective Care
About this book
In Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations: Elevating Home Experiences and Classroom Practices for Collective Care, Nawal Qarooni invites us to step beyond school-centric, one-off events and practices to create more authentic, engaging collaborations with caregivers. Instead of asking what families can do to support schools, Qarooni asks how schools can identify and celebrate what families already inherently bring to their children's literacy learning.
Establishing this work in holistic teaching—a pedagogical mindset that affirms the importance of loving the whole child through compassionate, collective care—Qarooni explores five critical literacy tenets by highlighting opportunities to listen for, honor, connect to, and elevate family strengths while inviting them even further into our shared work and encouraging reflection around:
- Recognizing the journey of process,
- Celebrating the role collaboration plays within the collective
- Using observational literacy to read the world
- Advocating for the power of talk to grow ideas and connect with others
- Giving children choice to make self-directed decisions
With moments of memoir woven in alongside diverse family examples and classroom stories connected to realistic instructional practices, Qarooni shows how all families contribute meaningfully to their children's literacy lives. Discover how we can tap into those vast wells to support learning at home and in school while building positive, reciprocal relationships across both settings.
With an afterword by En Comunidad authors, Carla España and Luz Yadira Herrera, Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations is rooted in the simple truth that we cannot separate knowing our students from knowing their home, communities, and the people that they love. This book offers a toolkit for connecting with families and elevating the intrinsic strengths that reside in every child's home.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- A Note to the Reader
- Foreword
- Kilim as a Pedagogical Stance
- Introduction: Families Know: “All Language Is a Longing for Home” ~Rumi
- Chapter 1 Celebrating Families' Intrinsic Knowing
- Chapter 2 Process: The Journey is the Learning
- Chapter 3 The Collective: Elevating Community Through Collaboration and Inclusion
- Chapter 4 Observational Literacy: Reading the World
- Chapter 5 Talk: The Power of Oral Conversation to Grow Ideas and Connect Us
- Chapter 6 Choice: Freeing Students to Make Self-Driven Decisions
- Conclusion: Pushing into Practice with Invitations for Shared Literacy Experiences
- Afterword
- Appendix A: See/Notice/Wonder Art Analysis Chart
- Appendix B: Synthesizing the Collective Care Framework
- Professional Bibliography
- Index