A) Strategies for collaborating with families of students with special needs:
Inviting families to attend parent-teacher conferences
Creating volunteer opportunities in the classroom
Asking families to share their language, culture, knowledge, skills, talents, and hobbies with the class
Using families’ preferred modes of communication (e.g., emails, texts, phone calls, notes)
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Resource link to many different parent advocacy articles:
TED Talk Detailing Parent Needs:
B) Strategies for collaboration between general education teachers and special education teachers:
Hold meetings
Clearly communicate
Deliberately schedule
Document
Set goals as a team
Resources and Articles:
https://doi.org/10.1177/1053451217693370
C) Strategies for developing culturally responsive instruction:
Know your students
Be aware of personal biases
Transform pedagogy and curriculum
Respect and reinforce student culture
Involve family and community
Sources and Articles:
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/4084/5155a0afe7be67867c264402996981cf9443.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1108/JME-09-2016-005