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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This guide includes an infographic that provides a visual representation of all six ABCs of Family and Community Engagement as well as look-fors to identify evidence of the ABCs in your context and ideas for future action.
For more context around this resource, please visit the Engaging Families and Communities page.
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This guide offers a brief synthesis of literature and reflection questions for each of the six ABCs of Family and Community Engagement.
For more context around this resource, please visit the Engaging Families and Communities page.
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Use this handout in intake centers or at parent-teacher conferences to help explain what WIDA Screener is and the process of screening students and identifying them as English learners. This family handout, available in multiple languages, includes a section for families to take notes and ask questions about English language services.
Note: This handout replaces the Explaining ELL Status and What Is Language Testing? flyers, which were retired July 1, 2025.
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Use this handout in intake centers or at parent-teacher conferences to help explain what WIDA Alternate Screener is and the process of screening students with the most significant cognitive disabilities and identifying them as English learners. This family handout, available in multiple languages, includes a section for families to take notes and ask questions about English language services.
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The Tell Us About Your Child Survey is a questionnaire that educators can give to families or caregivers of multilingual learners with the most significant cognitive disabilities to better understand a student's language and communication needs. In the survey, families or caregivers will answer questions about a student’s method of communication and language, their ability to understand communication and their preferred communication supports.
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