McD Home/School Communication

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Relationships between families and educators should be ongoing because it should span a child’s educational journey.

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True

Answer explanation

Home–school relationships take time and effort to develop and sustain. We encourage educators to consider ways to include families’ in the process of establishing a vision for family engagement, as well as planning school-based events or activities for families. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach to family engagement, ensuring families have a voice in the process is critical (Caspe, Lopez, Chu, & Weiss, 2011).

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What tool can we use to identify the type of support families need?

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Advocacy is a tool that parents and educators use to identify family needs.

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Schools can only communicate with families face to face.

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False

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Connecting family engagement to what students are learning in school, calls for all of the following approaches to family engagement, except: being systematic, being forgetful, being sustainable, being focused.

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being forgetful.

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Which of the following is a positive impact of family-school engagement? Teachers stop emailing parents., Students become fearful of teachers., Students are disengaged and don't care about their education., Student performance improves.

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Student performance improves.

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Knowing your strengths cannot assist in creating better teams when schools effectively communicate with families.

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False