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The Welcoming Classroom: Building Strong Home-to-School Connections for Early Learning - Paperback

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Category: Family Engagement

The children in today's early childhood classroom are more culturally, linguistically, and ability diverse than ever. As a teacher, your challenge is to partner with each family through recognizing their individual strengths, concerns, priorities, and resources. Dr. Johnna Darragh Ernst offers practical ideas for creating a welcoming atmosphere for families that will encourage them to participate in their children's learning community. From improving children's school readiness to encouraging positive engagement with peers, promoting student academic achievement, increasing graduation rates, and helping reduce the negative impact of poverty, the benefits of engaging families early will impact the young children in your care long after they leave your classroom! Paperback. 152 pages.

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Customer Reviews (4.7 / 5 · 3 reviews)

Brian ★★★★★

I was dreading parent-teacher conferences until I read the section on framing initial conversations as partnerships—it gave me actual scripts to use. The book’s focus on honoring each family’s cultural and linguistic background made my outreach feel genuine, not forced. It’s rare to find a guide thi

Nicholas ★★★★★

This book's practical strategies for building trust with diverse families are exactly what I needed. I particularly appreciated the concrete examples for navigating cultural differences during home visits, which made the concepts easy to apply.

Andrew C. ★★★★☆

I grabbed this for a professional development book study and the focus on culturally and linguistically diverse families really hits the mark for my classroom. The paperback is easy to carry around, though I wish some of the strategies came with more printable templates. Still, it’s given me fresh i