week 4 assignment#2 Describe your plan to involve families and communities with 3 specific examples

1. Language is not a problem

     I believe everyone feels comfortable when they speak the same language. I would like to organize some bilingual parents to have their own groups based on their languages. In the beginning, they can help me to write the bilingual invitations to the parents and make a call to encourage them to participate my open house time. And then, on the day, volunteers can interpret my teaching ideas for them and help parents express their concerns without the language barrier. After open house day, schedule out for family visiting with translators if they need further communication.

2. Blogger can boost communication

      I will like to form an atmosphere that every culture is welcome in the class and educate parents that any relevant activity, festival, the celebration is a portal for our children to experience the different culture. I will create a Blogger for my class and encourage the volunteer parents to share some information about cultural activities, ask them to provide some incentive to motivate parents to bring their children there. Through this platform, teacher, family, and community can collaborate, get know each other more and set a respectful environment.

3. Tell your  story, say your language

       I heard people mentioned the shortest distance between two people is a story. we should listen to a firsthand story from the person's lip not from the appearance or behavior even they do mean something sometimes. In my class, I would like to have all my students' families to prepare a family storytelling. The best part, I would invite parents to do the presentation in their native language and their children do translation simultaneously. Even students are the English speakers, they need to translate it in Spanish or Chinese depending what language speakers in the class.  I would cooperate with ESL teachers and other volunteer parents to help the students' script out when they need to translate in advance. There are two purposes in this activity. One is for all students to understand it's not easy to learn another language and hopefully, they can generate the empathy; the other purpose is to understand each group more and make minority family feel involved.