Resources/Recursos

An educator shares her experiences engaging families in the school community. This video provides practical advice on how to collaborate with families, start small, and reflect on the process to build a welcoming and effective school environment. See the full handout with additional ideas from Pushpanjali in the Standards in Action: Amplifying Family Voice handout.

Released September 2025

Engage with this video to learn about what meaningful engagement looks like directly from multilingual learners, families, community members and educators.

Released August 2025

This resource suggests questions you can use for your ongoing conversations with other educators to help build trust and collaborative relationships with multilingual students, families and communities.

For more context around this resource, please visit the Building Trust in Action Snapshot.

Released August 2025

This tool, provided in 17 languages, is designed to support families of multilingual learners as they navigate and engage with their child’s school. Consider how you might share this resource with the families you serve to empower them in advocating for their children.

Released August 2025

This resource offers topic areas and sample questions that families can ask educators to strengthen their collaborative advocacy efforts and engage in two-way, meaningful conversations.

Released August 2025

This resource offers topic areas and sample questions that educators can ask families to strengthen their collaborative advocacy efforts and engage in two-way, meaningful conversations.

Released August 2025

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

Released August 2025

This WIDA Snapshot offers an introduction to awareness, one of the six ABCs of Family and Community Engagement. The ABCs of Family and Community Engagement are six key considerations for educators who support multilingual learners and their families and communities. 

Released August 2025

This WIDA Snapshot offers an introduction to advocacy, one of the six ABCs of Family and Community Engagement. The ABCs of Family and Community Engagement are six key considerations for educators who support multilingual learners and their families and communities.

Released August 2025

This WIDA Snapshot offers an introduction to building trust, one of the six ABCs of Family and Community Engagement. The ABCs of Family and Community Engagement are six key considerations for educators who support multilingual learners and their families and communities. 

Released August 2025

This handout serves as a glossary of terms, including a definition of family and community engagement.

For more context around this resource, please visit the Engaging Families and Communities page.

Released August 2025

Use this visual resource to understand and apply the six key considerations of family and community engagement — Awareness, Advocacy, Building Trust, Breaking Barriers, Collaboration, and Connection to Learning. The “Look-Fors” section helps you identify example practices to spark ideas for your own context, and it offers actionable ideas to strengthen engagement in your context.

Review this resource along with the Literature Synopsis: ABCs of Family and Community Engagement. Together, they provide a visual roadmap for action plus a foundation of evidence to support conversations and decisions.

For more practical resources about the ABCs, please visit the Engaging Families and Communities page.

Released August 2025

Use this research-based summary to dive deeper into the evidence underpinning six key considerations of family and community engagement — Awareness, Advocacy, Building Trust, Breaking Barriers, Collaboration, and Connection to Learning. This resource offers a concise synthesis of scholarly literature about each key consideration along with guiding questions you can use individually or collaboratively with your team.

Review this synopsis along with the Infographic and Look-Fors: ABCs of Family and Community Engagement. Together, they provide a visual roadmap for action plus a foundation of evidence to support conversations and decisions.

For more practical resources about the ABCs, please visit the Engaging Families and Communities page.

Released August 2025

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

Released August 2025

Delve into this resource to consider your beliefs about family and community engagement and to identify a shift you would like to make in your practice. For more context around this resource, please visit the Awareness in Action Snapshot.

Released August 2025

Use this resource to map the community assets and resources in your setting. What would your school or district map look like? For more context around this resource, please visit the Awareness in Action Snapshot.

Released August 2025

Use this resource to inform and support your family and community engagement practice. For more context around this resource, please visit the Awareness in Action Snapshot.

Released August 2025

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.

Released August 2025

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.

Released August 2025

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.

Released August 2025