Partner with immigrant-serving community-based organizations to engage linguistically diverse families and sustain feedback loops¶

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Description¶

The guide recommends that district leaders partnering on ARP-funded plans work with immigrant-serving community-based organizations to "draw on their expertise, share resources, and inform families, communities, and advocates about new resources available." Because these organizations already hold trusted relationships with communities, they can run focus groups, forums, surveys, and working groups that feed district policy, provided they are compensated for this work.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Organizations must be appropriately compensated for gathering input, ensuring access, and distributing resources

Constraints¶

• Especially important for districts that have struggled to engage immigrant students and families

Target Learners¶

• English learners and their linguistically diverse families

Target Learning Goals¶

• Equitable representation of English learner needs in district spending plans

Related Strategies¶

• Remove language and participation barriers by communicating with families in multiple languages through varied channels with interpreters available
• Assign a compensated navigator to each family to connect English learner households with learning and support services
• Partner with community-based organizations to deliver critical services, since districts and schools alone cannot reduce chronic absenteeism
• Disaggregate engagement and performance data by subgroup and regularly evaluate and adjust support plans

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• The Next100, UnidosUS, and The Education Trust. (2021). Action Guide: Targeting Resources From the American Rescue Plan to Address the Needs of English Learners. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED614289