ELL's Parents Archives | The Latino Family Literacy Project Parent and Family Engagement with English Learners Sat, 27 Mar 2021 16:51:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 Parental Engagement Resources for Hispanic Parents https://www.latinoliteracy.com/resources-to-assist-in-parental-engagement-for-hispanic-parents/ Thu, 01 Sep 2016 18:40:17 +0000 https://www.latinoliteracy.com/?p=14674 One of the biggest obstacles to student achievement is a lack of parental involvement in a child’s academic pursuits. For Hispanic students, this can be a challenge to negotiate due to the difficulties their parents sometimes face when it comes to finding the proper outlets or resources to engage in a meaningful manner. At the heart of the problem is ... Read More

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]]> One of the biggest obstacles to student achievement is a lack of parental involvement in a child’s academic pursuits. For Hispanic students, this can be a challenge to negotiate due to the difficulties their parents sometimes face when it comes to finding the proper outlets or resources to engage in a meaningful manner. At the heart of the problem is communication, or lack thereof, as a significant number of Hispanic parents aren’t comfortable interacting with teachers or school administrators for any number of reasons. For some there are language barriers that prevent parents from discussing their child’s academic progress, for others it could be an inability with knowing how to engage, and even more Hispanic parents are reluctant to get fully involved because they feel that educators are the primary decision-makers when it comes to educating their child and they don’t wish to interfere. Whatever the main obstacles are to full parental engagement, there are Spanish-languages resources available to help parents feel more comfortable about getting involved in the educational process with an eye towards overcoming these problems. Here are just a few of the most widely available and useful resources for Hispanic parents to explore:

Parental Engagement Resources for Hispanic Parents
National PTA – The National Parent/Teachers Association is the leading organization devoted to incorporating parents into the conversation surrounding the education of our nation’s children. They work towards advocating for successful educational outcomes of students by making all stake-holders accountable for meeting this goal. That includes parents and the PTA strives to create avenues to help them get thoroughly involved in the process.

Univision Contigo – Clave al Exito – “Key to Success” is media company Univision’s educational online resource designed to help Spanish-speaking parents get involved in their child’s education. The platform serves an access point for helping parents communicate with educators and learn how to help their children read and excel with their studies.

Be a Learning Hero – Another valuable source for vital information and tips for parents on how to stay up to date with all of the growing changes happening in the education system in the United States. With so many new shifts in the current paradigm, it can be tough to navigate so many developments and this website is dedicated to helping parents stay on top of every new change to become more effectively involved in schooling.

The ENLACE Initiative – A program under management by the Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA), the ENLACE initiative was created with the sole purpose of helping Hispanic families find the resources they need in order for children to complete high school and pursue college. It serves students in grades K-12 as well as students enrolled in college and universities both public and private.

Lectura Books – Publishes bilingual books to meet the language needs of Spanish speaking parents and their children.

Family Phonics – A program to use with parents who need to learn basic phonics and phonemic awareness, so that they can help their children with English phonics.

Family Stories Curriculum – published by The Latino Family Literacy Project. Requires staff development for effective implementation of a Parent Involvement and family reading program.

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]]> What Can Title III Funds be Used for in Parent Involvement Efforts? https://www.latinoliteracy.com/what-can-title-iii-funds-be-used-for-in-parent-involvement-efforts/ Mon, 08 Aug 2016 17:00:21 +0000 https://www.latinoliteracy.com/?p=13911 What Can Title III Funds be Used for in Parent Involvement Efforts? Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) is the funding component that gives states the necessary financial resources to develop standards-based learning initiatives and programs for English Language Learners (ELLs) in the form of subgrants. These funds are designed to improve the academic outcomes toward ... Read More

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What Can Title III Funds be Used for in Parent Involvement Efforts?

Title III Funds for English Instruction

Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) is the funding component that gives states the necessary financial resources to develop standards-based learning initiatives and programs for English Language Learners (ELLs) in the form of subgrants. These funds are designed to improve the academic outcomes toward English language proficiency and the school districts that benefit from these subgrants must demonstrate positive results on an annual basis.

Required Use of Funds

Support of High-Quality ELD programs

  • Proposed activities must provide for and support high-quality language instruction educational programs, or English language development (ELD) programs, that are scientifically based and that are effective in increasing English proficiency and Academic achievement in the core academic subjects (Section 3115 (c) (1)).
  • The LEA must provide high-quality professional development to classroom teachers (including teachers in classroom settings that are not designed for only language instruction educational programs), principals, administrators, and other school or community-based organizational personnel. The professional development must:

    • -Improve the instruction of ELs;
    -Enhance the ability of teachers to understand and use curricula, assessment measures, and instructional strategies for ELs;
    -Be scientifically research-based and of sufficient duration and intensity (Section 3115 (c) (2)).

    Title III Immigrant Funds

    Title III Immigrant funds can be spent on:

  • Family literacy, parent outreach and training activities designed to assist parents in actively participating in the education of their children;
  • Support for personnel, including teacher aides who have been specifically trained to provide services to immigrant children;
  • Provision for tutorials, mentoring, and academic or career counseling for immigrant children and youth;
  • Identification and acquisition of supplemental curricular materials, educational software and technologies;
  • Basic instruction services that are directly attributable to the presence in the school of immigrant children and youth: classroom supplies, costs of transportation, etc.;
  • Other instruction services designed to assist immigrant children and youth: civics education, introduction to educational system, etc.;
  • Activities coordinated with community-based organizations, institutes of higher education to assist parent of immigrant children and youth by offering comprehensive community services.
    • Other Allowable Use of Funds

    Funds may be used to support additional, supplemental staff (counselor, paraprofessional, etc.) Upgrading program objectives and effective instruction strategies:

    • Improving the instruction program for EL students by identifying, acquiring and upgrading supplemental curricula, instruction materials, and educational software;
    • Tutorials and academic or vocational education for EL children;
    • Developing and implementing and improving elementary school or secondary school language instruction educational programs (may be coordinated with other relevant programs and services);
    • Activities that improve the English proficiency and academic achievement of EL children;
    • Community participation programs, family literacy services and parent outreach and training activities to EL children and their families;
    • Evaluation of ELD programs.

    These efforts can be established either exclusively or in concert with parental resource centers that are created to better serve the needs of parents who are eager to become further involved in the education of their children but aren’t sure how to participate effectively.

    The Latino Family Literacy Project specializes in training staff to work with Hispanic families. If you’re interested in setting up a webinar for your staff so that they can implement a parent program with strong proven outcomes, please contact us at 1-877-LECTURA.

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