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Video: Shifting Mindsets to Grow Awareness

Explore this video that features three WIDA Fellows discussing how they have developed a deeper understanding around authentic family and community engagement, leading to shifts in their beliefs and practices.

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Released August 2025

Video: Community Support and Advocacy for Multilingual Families

WIDA Fellow Madison Leech discusses how her school partners with families, community members and community organizations to network and map community assets and resources in support of multilingual families.

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Released August 2025

Video: Spanish Story Hour

Engage with this video to learn how educators and families in one district collaborated to offer a resource for families that previously was not available — a Spanish story hour at the local library.

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Released August 2025

Video: Teachers as Ethnographers

In this video, Diep Nguyen invites teachers to become ethnographers. Engage with this brief video to inform and strengthen your practice.

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Released August 2025

Video: Introduction to Awareness

Engage with this brief introductory video to reflect and deepen your knowledge about awareness- one of the six ABC’s of Family and Community Engagement. For more context around this resource, please visit the Awareness in Action Snapshot.

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Released August 2025

Avenues for Advocacy: Individual, Local, State and National

Explore this tool, which introduces three avenues for advocacy — individual, local, and state/national — with example actions in each. For more context around this resource, please visit the Advocacy in Action Snapshot.

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Released August 2025

Video: Abogando for Your Child

In this brief video, the mother of a multilingual learner discusses how she collaborated with her child’s teacher and other school staff to advocate for her child.

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Released August 2025

Video: Families and Educators Advocating at School

In this video, Maggie Karr, a family advocate, shares how she collaborates with families and her colleagues to promote a culture that welcomes and supports family advocacy.

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Released August 2025

Video: A Sample Teacher-Parent Conversation

This video models a supportive conversation between a teacher and a Spanish-speaking parent to show how educators and families can advocate for inclusive practices that center family perspectives. The video features people speaking in Spanish.

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Released August 2025

Video: Introduction to Advocacy

Engage with this brief introductory video to reflect and deepen your knowledge about advocacy- one of the six ABC’s of Family and Community Engagement.

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Released August 2025

Vignette: Building Trust Through Conversation and Action

This vignette demonstrates how a multilingual learner school-community liaison builds trusting relationships with multilingual learners and their families and communities. For more context around this resource, please visit the Building Trust in Action Snapshot.

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Released August 2025

Monthly Coffee Chats: Building Trust With Multilingual Families

This resource offers guidance for starting and sustaining monthly coffee chats with families of multilingual learners. Use the information to get started with coffee chats in your context or to reflect on similar activities that you already do. For more context around this resource, please visit the Building Trust in Action Snapshot.

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Released August 2025

Video: Building Trust With Coffee Chats

In this video, WIDA Fellow Pushpanjali Sengupta shares how she has built trust through dialogue and action in ways that center multilingual families’ voices.

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Released August 2025

Video: Building Trust in the Car Line

In this video, WIDA Fellow Madison Leech shares how her school has formed and sustained trusting relationships with families in the car line during pick-up and drop-off.

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Released August 2025

Video: Introduction to Building Trust

Engage with this brief introductory video to reflect and deepen your knowledge about building trust – one of the six ABCs of Family and Community Engagement.

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Released August 2025

Video: Voices of Families Part I

In this video, multilingual families and their children share about building trust through care, mutual respect and cultural and linguistic humility.

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Released August 2025

Video: Voices of Families Part II

In this video, multilingual families share about building trust with educators through believing in each other’s skills and knowledge, and showing integrity and follow-through.

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Released August 2025

Video: Voices of Educators

In this video, educators share how they build trust with multilingual families and communities, including questions they suggest for ongoing conversations.

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Released August 2025

Conversation Card Template (multiple languages)

This customizable template has fillable conversation cards for you to add questions to. Use the template to support you as you build trusting relationships with multilingual learners and their families and communities.

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Released August 2025

Student Questions (multiple languages)

This resource suggests questions you can use for your ongoing conversations with multilingual learners to help build trust and collaborative relationships.

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Released August 2025