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Establishing and sustaining a partnership with families is essential to their child’s success. Strong family engagement consists of thoughtful, culturally responsive, and equity-centered strategies. Here you will find resources for authentically engaging, educating, and supporting multilingual and immigrant families as active participants in their child’s educational journey.
Immigrant Family Empowerment
Immigrant Family Empowerment
The Immigrant Family Empowerment - Your Advocacy Guide is a resource guide is designed for multilingual and immigrant families in NYC Public Schools. In this guide, you will have access to knowledge about your rights as immigrant families, different ways to get involved in your child's school, and how to lead for the purpose of change in your school community. This guide aims to affirm all members of a school community as active participants in their own learning.
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Multilingual and Immigrant Family Resource Guide
Multilingual and Immigrant Family Resource Guide
The Multilingual and Immigrant Family Resource Guide is designed to inform families of their educational rights regardless of immigration status and provide key resources to promote language justice and postsecondary opportunities. Through this guide, families can learn about:
their child's rights as an English Language Learner student,
how and where they can enroll their children,
how they can be child's advocate at school,
program options for English Language Learners, and m ore.
Schools are encouraged to share this resource with their family-facing staff and families.
Arabic | Bengali | Chinese | English | French | Haitian Creole | Korean | Russian | Spanish | Urdu
English Language Learner Identification
English Language Learner Identification
An English Language Learner, or ELL, is a student whose home language is not English and needs support learning English. All parents and guardians of newly enrolled students must complete a Home Language Identification Survey to let school staff know which language your child speaks at home.
If your responses show that your child speaks a language other than English at home, the school may give your child the New York State Identification Test for English Language Learners. This test measures your child’s knowledge of English and shows whether your child needs support programs and services. If the test shows that your child needs support learning English, your child will be identified as an English language learner.
You can learn more about supports for English language learners on our NYC Public Schools website.
Program Options for English Language Learners
Program Options for English Language Learners
Program Options for ELLs: Find out about the programs offered for English Language Learners:
All ELLs receive English as a New Language (ENL). Your child will be taught to read, write, and speak in English with support in your child's home language.
There are two types of bilingual education programs. In both programs, your child will learn reading, writing, and other classes in both English and in your child’s home language. Both programs include English as a New Language (ENL) instruction. View a list of current Bilingual Programs offered at NYC Public Schools.
In Dual Language Bilingual Education programs, students are taught in two languages: English and their home language, such as Spanish, Chinese, or French, among others. The goal of this program is for students to be able to read, write, and speak in both English and their home language. In Dual Language classes, the home language and English are used equally.
Transitional Bilingual Education programs provide reading, writing, and other classes in English and in your child’s home language. As students’ English improves, time spent learning in English increases, and time spent learning in the home language decreases. Once your child is no longer identified as an English Language Learner, they will exit the program.
What is Career and Technical Education?
What is Career and Technical Education?
Support families in understanding that Career and Technical Education (CTE) program is an available high school pathway for multilingual learners. CTE programs provide high school students with courses, skills, work experience, and professional certifications focused on in-demand careers to pursue after high school or after college. With nearly 300 CTE programs across 135 high schools, New York City Public Schools offers a wide range of options for multilingual learners to explore. The vision for NYC CTE is to equitably prepare all CTE students with the education, skills, and experiences that are necessary to successfully earn postsecondary credentials and pursue careers with family-sustaining wages.
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