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Centering Voices
Engage with this video to learn about what meaningful engagement looks like directly from multilingual learners, families, community members and educators.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
How to Advocate for Your Child and Yourself in School
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.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Families as Advocates: Advocating for my Multilingual Learner (multiple languages)
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.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Educators as Advocates: Advocating for and with Multilingual Families (multiple languages)
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.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Community Member Questions (multiple languages)
This resource suggests questions you can use for your ongoing conversations with community members to help build trust and collaborative relationships.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Family Questions (multiple languages)
This resource suggests questions you can use for your ongoing conversations with multilingual families to help build trust and collaborative relationships.
Resource DetailsReleased August 2025
Shifting Mindsets to Grow Awareness
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.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased August 2025
Mapping Community Assets and Resources
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.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased August 2025
Gathering Community Information: Reflecting On and Using What You Learn
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.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased August 2025
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.
Resource DetailsReleased 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.
Resource DetailsReleased 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.
Resource DetailsReleased 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.
Resource DetailsReleased 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.
Resource DetailsReleased 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.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased 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.
Resource DetailsReleased 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.
Resource DetailsReleased 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.
Resource DetailsReleased 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.
Resource DetailsReleased 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.
Resource Details View Download NowReleased August 2025