Multilingual School-Related Resources for Refugee Families Archives

Welcoming Immigrant Students in School

An infographic for public schools who, by law, must serve all children. Not only should undocumented students not be discouraged from attending, [...]

Welcome to School

This video is an orientation video to the school district where newcomer parents and their children can get a sense of what [...]

Welcome to AACPS

A video that explains enrollment, absences, transportation and meals among other topics to parents. A Spanish version of the video is currently [...]

Parent involvement materials

These materials are based on the Parent Institute for Quality Education Program (PIQE) in California and are available in Karen through Drum [...]

Clearinghouse for Multilingual Documents (Web site)

This clearinghouse houses hundreds of resources that facilitate communication with immigrant parents. Within each topic is a list of currently available parental [...]

Bilingual Glossaries

These glossaries were created for teachers, LEP students, test translators, and curricula developers. The glossaries are available in a number of languages; [...]

How to Navigate the Oakland Unified School District

This handbook for refugee and asylee families, service providers and support people includes the following sections: * Overview of the U.S. school [...]

Attending School in the Anchorage School District

This online video is shown to immigrant and refugee families when they register for school in Anchorage, Alaska. Their Web site also [...]