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Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:2328] Four Purposes Still Pertinent
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Lately, as some of us think about and work with the EFF Framework, we tend to
focus on the Standards and the ever-important Assessment. But now and then,
we read or hear something that takes us back to the beginning of the EFF
Initiative and reminds us that the Four Purposes began it all. The following is an
excerpt from PEN Weekly NewsBlast for May 30, 2003, and it reminds us that
the Four Purposes serve as an authentic starting point for teaching and learning
with the EFF Framework. Remember Access to Information and Voice and ...
IMMIGRANT PARENTS FINDING A VOICE
As schools try to meet state achievement mandates and the requirements of
the new federal No Child Left Behind law, they are emphasizing parents as
key factors in children's academic success. Increasingly, the region's
school districts are developing innovative programs -- from culturally
specific to breakfast gatherings -- to encourage immigrants to take an
active role in their children's education. Districts have stopped waiting
for the parents to join in and, not content just to encourage them, have
started recruiting. The aim is to get "all families to do all things,"
said Joyce L. Epstein, director of Johns Hopkins University's Center on
School, Family and Community Partnerships. "Almost every school system is
becoming more diverse," Epstein said. "Schools are becoming more sensitive
to the need to include every family." To help immigrant parents feel
welcome and motivated, school staffs must first address the obvious
barriers, such as language and cultural differences, before tackling the
most subtle ones, such as a fear of challenging authority that makes them
reluctant to ask basic questions: How do you read a report card? What is a
parent-teacher conference for?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46243-2003May27.html
>From the Four Purposes, you might want to search the Parent/Family Member
Role Map for a way to address the goals of these parents.
All the Best,
Meta Potts, 4-EFF List Moderator
FOCUS on Literacy
Glen Allen, VA
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