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Create and refine inclusive district-level plans, and activities that promote supportive educational environments for students experiencing homelessness With comprehensive and purposeful support plans schools and school districts can address the unique needs and challenges students experiencing homelessness face. Successful strategies must promote building capacity among staff and educators to identify students, have enrollment and information-sharing… Read More »
Link: https://maec.org/homelessness/
Develop family leadership programs that increase engagement and support for families in positive ways using inclusive and diversity-focused strategies. Learn how to update family leadership programs to consider students’ and families’ diverse knowledge and tools for success. A successful leadership program must identify and work with a family’s unique needs, experience, and knowledge to establish… Read More »
Link: https://maec.org/building-leaders/
Inspire students to embrace and learn STEM with lessons that increase equity and inclusive instruction. Teachers can improve equity in STEM education by following key principles and features that address the historical marginalization of women and BIPOC communities and reframe traditional instructional practices to be more inclusive of different ways of learning. Following an Understanding… Read More »
Link: https://maec.org/stem-education/
While U.S. public education is experiencing an increase in student body size and diversity, there is also an increase in racial and socioeconomic isolation. Participation rates among White students are decreasing as rates among Latine and Asian American and Pacific Islander students increase, and Black student participation rates hold steady. Schools, districts, and communities must… Read More »
Link: https://maec.org/ses_case_studies/
While U.S. public education is experiencing an increase in student body size and diversity, there is also an increase in racial and socioeconomic isolation. Participation rates among White students are decreasing as rates among Latine and Asian American and Pacific Islander students increase, and Black student participation rates hold steady. Schools, districts, and communities must… Read More »
Link: https://maec.org/ses_playbook/
This CAFE guide is designed for families and caregivers to support and lead English Learners through projects at home. The activities within the guide promote communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking while engaging with a child’s culture, family background, and home languages. Each project has the following sections: the purpose of the project, materials suggested,… Read More »
Link: https://maec.org/learning_at_home/
This CAFE toolkit offers strategies to manage mental wellness in the context of school and personally, and it gives methods to assist students and families with learning and well-being. Although each section addresses teachers, students can gain a lot of insight and tips by applying several of the tools listed to aid their own mental… Read More »
Link: https://maec.org/managing-mental-wellness/
The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked a reckoning on how educators, schools, and districts should support AAPI students and communities. In response to an increase in hate crimes and heightened xenophobia against Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) during the pandemic, MAEC’s Collaborative Action for Family Engagement (CAFE) disseminated a survey titled: “Asian American Pacific-Islanders (AAPI) Family Survey: Reflections and Thoughts on School Reopening” (hereafter referred to as “AAPI Family Survey”). The survey sought to learn about AAPI families’ experiences during the pandemic, gain insight into their challenges and concerns as schools reopened, and identify ways that educators and schools could support families.
Lessons from Five Schools that Serve K-12 Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylees Given the influx of immigrants and refugees over the past several years, newcomer students are found in the classrooms of small towns, suburbs, and big cities across the country and they bring with them a world of culturally diverse experiences and knowledge. Newcomers face… Read More »
A Guide to Empower Parents of English Learners to Advocate for their Children In 2010, approximately five million students in the United States were identified as English Learners (ELs). Students under this category have different English proficiency levels and years of formal education. Schools must be able to support students of different backgrounds and proficiency… Read More »
Link: https://maec.org/adelante/