Advancing Culturally Responsive and Socially Just Approaches to Multilingual Family-School Partnerships

Vera J. Lee, Kristine S. Lewis Grant

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781978783768
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice

This compilation of research and stories from the field about multilingual family-school partnerships explores where systemic inequities exist at the school, district, or community level, and consider strategies that disrupt normative ways in which multilingual families are included in educational decisions. The authors present family-school partnerships in educational and non-educational settings across the United States, and identify frameworks, models, and practices for engaging multilingual families in schooling. This edited volume is organized into four sections. Section one, "School District Collaborations with Multilingual Families," describes how districts honor the knowledge of multilingual parents as foundational tenets in their collaborative work with them. Section two, "School Leadership Approaches to Engaging Multilingual Families," focuses on how school leaders enacted critical approaches to building relationships with multilingual families. Section three, "Educator Partnerships with Multilingual Families," explores educators' approaches to developing relationships with multilingual families. Section four, "Multilingual Families as Leaders in School Partnerships," highlights the visible and invisible ways that multilingual parents contribute to the overall success of their children. Each chapter offers examples of successes and challenges of partnerships with multilingual families and how they can help to transform school communities.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I: School District Collaborations with Multilingual Families
• Chapter 1: Collaborative Multilingual Families’ Story Making that Transcends School Policies and Practices of Inequity at Community Translanguaging Spaces
• Chapter 2: From Receiver to Contributor: Redefining the Role of Multilingual Families in School and Community Partnerships
• Part II: School Leadership Approaches to Engaging Multilingual Families
• Chapter 3: Humanizing Family Outreach: The Story of Los Angeles County Office of Education Parent and Family Education and Consultation Program
• Chapter 4: Social Justice Leadership: Leading through Times of Deportability
• Chapter 5: Three Bridges: A Framework for Culturally Responsive Brokering in Multilingual Family-School-Community Engagement
• Part III: Educator Partnerships with Multilingual Families
• Chapter 6: Family-School Partnership with Multilingual Families: A Two-Way Street for Change
• Chapter 7: “Cuando Tenía Siete Años . . . ”: Family Storytelling in Early Years Bilingual Classrooms during Distance Learning
• Chapter 8: Learning to Learn from Families: Professional Development for Culturally Responsive Relationships with Parents and Caregivers
• Chapter 9: Engaging in a Multilingual Family Literacy Program: An Evolving Collaborative Approach
• Part IV: Multilingual Families as Leaders in School Partnerships
• Chapter 10: Illuminating the Immigrant Bargain: Multilingual Asian Immigrant and Asian American Families Cultivating Leadership Capabilities and Challenging Systemic Barriers
• Chapter 11: Voices of Multilingual Mothers in Early Care and Education Settings
• Chapter 12: Latinx Mothers Take the Lead: Epistemic Narratives to Construct Family-School Partnerships
• Chapter 13: A New Language, a New Culture, and a New Way of Thinking: Examining How Parents Navigate Barriers to Support Their Emerging Multilingual Learners
• Conclusion
• Index
• About the Authors