Family Engagement and Cultural Perspectives: Applying Strengths-based Attitudes
Learn about the ways that understanding families’ cultural perspectives can help to build positive relationships.
Head Start programs are committed to providing equitable access to comprehensive services that prepare children for school and life. An important part of this commitment is recognizing and respecting the culture and language of the children and their families.
Head Start programs put into practice an equity-focused mindset in several ways. They implement anti-bias and nurturing environments. They promote protective and supportive factors for children’s and family’s health and well-being. And they provide educational opportunities, systems, and policies that position each child to reach their highest level of learning and life potential.
Programs do this while emphasizing children’s cultural and linguistic strengths and holding high expectations for all. Administrators, teachers, providers, caregivers, and families can use these resources to promote a positive experience for all children and by emphasizing children’s cultural and linguistic strengths.
Learn about the ways that understanding families’ cultural perspectives can help to build positive relationships.
Discover the link between positive health outcomes for children and early care and education providers’ cultural competence with this activity.
Find out how this Standards in Action vignette addresses the requirements for tribal language preservation and revitalization.
Discover ways promote a program-wide coordinated approach to supporting dual language learners and their families.
This standard outlines the requirements for tribal language preservation and revitalization in programs that serve American Indian and Alaska Native children.
The PLA is a comprehensive, research-based way for early education programs to ensure optimal language and literacy services for children who speak English and for those who are dual language learners..
Making It Work is a resource that can help American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) early education staff meet school readiness goals. Learn how to use it while teaching traditional cultural skills, values, beliefs, and lifeways.
School readiness and school success for children who are dual language learners are tied directly to mastery of their home language. This series of handouts is designed to provide staff and families with basic information on topics related to children learning two or more languages. They emphasize the benefits of being bilingual, the importance of maintaining home language, and the value of becoming fully bilingual. These easy-to-read resources highlight important information that every adult living or working with young dual language learners should know.
Explore these resources about indigenous immigrant families and their culture.
Head Start programs are committed to providing equitable access to comprehensive services that prepare children for school and life. An important part of this commitment is recognizing and respecting the culture and language of the children and their families.