Our main course text describes a number of different school-community partnershi

Our main course text describes a number of different school-community partnership models with the goal of supporting both ELLs and their parents/families in various ways. The Ovando and Combs (2018) state that “For partnerships to develop, the communication of expectations between parents and educators cannot be a one-way street…language minority parents, like all parents, will participate in varying ways in mutual efforts that value their contributions, yield solid academic results, and encourage positive interpersonal and intercultural relationships—efforts that aspire toward a community of learners and a community of leaders” (p. 450). For the final project, I want you to design a comprehensive school-community program, informed by conducting a needs assessment of parents/families.
The needs assessment is actual data i.e. observations, interviews, survey, or questionnaire that you collect from immigrant parents/families whose children attend school in your district, or attend the programs offered through Migrant Education Program. Please work with the program facilitator to help you arrange interviews or administer a survey/questionnaire to parents i.e. consider using an online translation like Google Translate, if they have limited English proficiency. You will use the data to discover what parents/families would like to see in a school-community program that would meet academic and non-academic needs (i.e. perhaps parents desire computer courses, English language courses, help connecting with community resources, activities for students and caregivers to learn together, etc.). Your development of the school-community program model needs to be informed by the expressed needs of multilingual parents. In addition, you need to spend fieldwork hours observing the family programs offered through your District or ones sponsored through Migrant Education program classes and take ample notes about activities that you could integrate into the program you are designing and more importantly, activities that the caregivers themselves expressed that they want in a school-community program, *Please note that it is important to let families know that you will keep their identities (use pseudonyms) confidential in the paper for this course.
The paper length is 15 double-spaced pages. Here are the instructions for the paper:
• Spend time at the fieldwork site observing parents/caregivers in a school/district or and at least 2 different Migrant Education Program sponsored program to get a sense of how these programs are supporting the needs of multilingual families, the approach(es) they take for implementing the program(s), specific activities they use with families in the program, the extent to which families are engaged and participating in the program(s). *Keep detailed notes, which you will turn in with your final paper (you can scan your notes and upload them as a combined PDF with your paper)
• Conduct a needs assessment by asking for assistance from the program facilitator to hand out a survey or questionnaire and/or interview parents/caregivers who attend the program(s) about their involvement in programs and the topics/areas that they would like to see in a school-based program.
• You need to spend time searching for at least 10 scholarly sources that you will discuss in the literature review section of your paper. The sources can be a combination of both course texts and outside sources but you must use at least 5 outside sources using Drexel University databases (feel free to contact any of the reference librarians at Hagerty. Collect literature that addresses issues around school-community partnerships with multilingual families, culturally responsive approaches to partnerships with multilingual families, and programs that offer models of school-based, community-based, or school-community partnerships that support ELLs and their families.
• You need to spend time finding community resources that could partner with the school in supporting ELLs and their families in a number of different ways. Are their immigrant centers in the area, community colleges or universities, health clinics, adult basic education centers, community centers, legal centers, career centers, literacy centers, other organizations that could be valuable partners for this program? After you identify organizations that could be supporting partners in the program, describe what they can offer to ELLs and parents/immigrants in the way of specific services and integrate these organizations into your program plan.
Components of the paper:
• Write an introduction that argues for the importance of schools and communities partnering with multilingual families to support their goals and goals for their children.
• Write a literature review after reading and analyzing the 10 scholarly sources (articles, books, chapters) you found using the Drexel library databases.
• You will summarize the findings of the needs assessment you conducted. Explain what instrument you used to collect the data from parents/caregivers e.g., interview, survey, and/or questionnaire. You will analyze your data and talk about main themes or ideas that emerged from your interviews with ELLs, their teachers, and their parents/families. Give the reader the most critical pieces from the data you collected, and you will use this to develop your school-community based program. Finally, explain how you went about designing your school-community partnership model, i.e. did you look at other models from the literature? .
• You will propose a school-based program for multilingual families (give it a name) starting with a mission statement. Explain how you went about designing your school-community partnership model, i.e. did you look at other models from the literature? Please explain the specifics of this program in terms of what it is offering to ELLs and their parents/families, the critical components of the program (cite any idea that comes from the literature you discussed), how it would be organized, the staffing that would be required, the role/responsibilities of the school in supporting the program, and the role of the community partners. You will also add a descriiption of the community organizations you want to utilize as critical partners in the program. You will also add a descriiption of the community organizations you want to utilize as critical partners in the program.
• The conclusion should be a summary of your overall practicum assignment, end by offering a brief reflection of what you learned from developing the project and how the course content will help you professionally in the future, and any future plans you might have for implementing a similar program at your own (or future) school/district and any lingering questions that emerged from the assignment.