Abstract
Newly-arrived non-English speaking immigrant families living and working in rural US settings face multiple challenges, including social isolation, transportation, and access to everyday services. These challenges, coupled with language and cultural differences, impede immigrants’ ability to access educational programs that support their children’s learning. Situated in a rural Florida setting, this project sought to understand teachers’ and families’ beliefs and needs, using survey and interview data. We then describe how we developed non-traditional outreach programs and materials, such as the fotonovela, to facilitate home-school partnerships with immigrant Latino families and teachers. We discuss implications for educators.
Highlights
In this paper, we describe a school-home partnership project in a rural area of north Florida
§ How can partnerships be built between immigrant, Latino families and schools to support student learning in that community?
Our study found that building home-school partnerships in rural, new destination settings with immigrant Latinos requires a reconceptualization of both relationships and resources
Summary
We describe a school-home partnership project in a rural area of north Florida. In this paper we describe how one project identified and responded to the local needs of immigrant Latino families in a rural school district.
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