Abstract
While raising children in the United States Latinx immigrants face economic constraints, language barriers, cultural gaps, and other environmental factors that negatively impact the wellbeing of their children and undermine their social, emotional, and educational outcomes. Although nearly all children possess the potential to learn, external environmental (ecological) factors can enhance or detract from that potential. In this context, Latinx students continue to have low academic achievement and the highest dropout rates in the nation, as well as low postsecondary attainment. This discussion will introduce two programs focused on effective ways to address the barriers faced by children of Latinx immigrants’ to learn and perform well in the U.S. educational system. Both programs use an eco-developmental approach influencing the systems in which the Latinx students grow: their family and school. Partnering for School Success is a community-informed program developed to promote and strengthen the interaction and partnerships between parents or caregivers and children, and parents or caregivers and schools. It includes interactive sessions with multiple activities to increase caregivers’ skills, knowledge, and self-efficacy to support their children to navigate the school system. Whole Learners is a yearlong teacher professional development program tailored to improving student engagement and academic outcomes. This training dives deep into equitable teaching practices for dismantling structural racism in the schools. The program showed promising outcomes in addressing teachers’ implicit bias in particular when working with immigrants and refugee students. Lessons learned and implications for practitioners will be shared.
Presenters
Silvia Alvarez de DavilaAbigail Gadea
Whole Learners Co-Developer & Deputy Director, Healthy Youth Development PRC, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, United States
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Theme
Education and Learning in a World of Difference
KEYWORDS
Minorities, Disparities, Gap, Bias, Empowerment, Training, Engagement. Performance, Achievement
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