Use this guide to strengthen family partnership across your whole school and move it from isolated efforts to one connected system. It focuses on four areas: ASL classes for families, family engagement and empowerment, schoolwide communication, and home-school collaboration. For each level of practice, from Emerging to Developing to Proficient to Exemplary, it offers concrete recommendations and a clear leadership move, so you can see where your program stands and what to do next. Use it to guide coaching, plan resources, and build consistent, accessible, and culturally responsive partnerships with families over time.
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A planning checklist coordinators use to set up ASL classes for families, covering purpose, scheduling, space, instructors, childcare, budgeting, and outreach.
A directory families and staff use to connect with national organizations that support deaf, hard of hearing, and DeafBlind children through family-to-family help and advocacy.
A reading list educators and families can use to ground family-school partnership work in evidence on language access, early language, and engagement for deaf and hard of hearing children.