We have compiled a short list of resources we have produced to help you more effectively engage with families and to understand the barriers families are experiencing. Please share these resources widely.
In this webinar, we collaborated with the Office of Education Ombuds and Interpreter Fanny Cordero to provide best practices and tools for communicating with families via spoken language interpreters.
In this report, we detail the feedback we heard from families on their experiences with schools. Listening sessions were held with families speaking the following languages: Amharic, Cantonese, Mandarin, Somali, Spanish, and Tigrinya.
In this blog post, we provide a guide to working with families who may require an interpreter and want to access Continuous Learning Plans for their students.
ODMF developed this tool to receive family feedback on the quality of interpretation after a meeting. Have this printed out and share with the family immediately after the meeting to provide an opportunity for the family to tell you how well they understand the meeting.
In this article, we detail our approach to community-led policy change in support of Language Access in Washington state K-12 schools. The article includes an overview of new legislation due to the passage of House Bill 1153.
This article originally appeared in the June 2022 edition of WSSDA’s Policy & Legal News. It is reproduced here with permission.
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