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Nuts & Bolts Webinar: A Fathers Place: The Important Role Fathers and Families Have in their Child's Education
When fathers are involved in their child’s life, research shows they are more likely to do well in school, have healthy self-esteem, and exhibit positive social behaviors. This webinar will showcase how participants can effectively engage fathers and families to positively impact student outcomes.
Introduction to Translanguaging in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classrooms
Language acquisition allows for cultural understanding and cultural mindset. This asynchronous module walks you through translanguaging theory, using self-reflection, multicultural children's literature, and other resources to show how to apply your knowledge with equity at the forefront.
Nuts & Bolts Webinar: Family Engagement: Enhance, Unify, and Amplify
The National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement shared their highly anticipated Family Engagement Core Competencies. Based on over 3 years of research, these competencies bring together the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that family facing professionals can utilize.
Nuts & Bolts Webinar: Cultural Reciprocity: Leaning Forward, Not Bending Over Backwards
Cultural reciprocity is an approach that goes beyond the concept of cultural competence. By seeking to learn about the beliefs of family members and reciprocally explaining professional assumptions and beliefs, mutual respect can be established. This process results in genuine collaboration.
Nuts & Bolts Webinar: Looking Back, Looking Around, Looking Forward: The Ecosystem Approach to Education
This engages a panel of three extraordinary educational leaders: Dr. Ira Murray, Mr. Jermar Rountree, and Mr. Kurt Russell who discuss history of schools, the current landscape, and the future of classrooms. They also highlight an ecosystem approach focusing on communities.
Promotora Project Book List
The Promotora Project is a family engagement project that seeks to empower a group of Teacher Candidates and community liaisons, or what we call Early Literacy Promotoras, to support the early literacy development of Spanish speaking children. The following is a list of books that each team used.
BranchED seeks to support individual educator preparation programs (EPPs) and the field at large in reimagining and redefining “quality” preparation programs such that attention to issues of diversity and equity are explicit, embedded, and inextricably linked to high-quality performance.
The Resource Portal was created to support our community by providing resources such as instructional materials, online modules, podcasts, practice-based learning opportunities, research briefs, teaching video library, tool/toolkit, and webinars.