Center Schools Provide ELL Parent Digital Literacy

On Monday, April 11, Linda Innes, ELL Coordinator and ELL teacher at Center School District, shared step-by-step examples of how she and her staff enlisted the help of area multilingual high school students to help ELL parents access and utilize the district’s school-to-home digital communication, Infinite Campus.

You can download this powerpoint, How Digital Literacy for ELL Parents Improves Parent[2], created by Linda and embedded with permission, for a step-by-step visual of how she and her staff made the parent trainings possible.  Embedded in the powerpoint are four live action video of students and parents working together with coaching from Linda.  (Be sure you’re in slide show mode to access the video embeds, which can be found by hovering over the clip art characters on slide 7.)

Linda also generously shares the visual guide she created to help parents and their digital student-tutors create passwords for the Infinite Campus system.  Download it from this link, Infinite Campus Parent Portal User Guide2015[1]

Being a forward thinker (or backward planner), Linda knew she needed to be prepared to assist ELL parents with those preliminary log-in passwords that challenge even English-dominant users.  She created a buddy system to connect parents and digital tutors which turned out to be an undertaking of its own.  In this separate, short video, Linda provides a visual of the notebook she designed to organize the matches between parents and digital student-tutors.

The ELL parent digital literacy training was arranged on the same evening as the district’s annual ELL family dinner.  What a great way to combine engagement and involvement.

A huge thank you and kudos to Linda Innes, her staff, the student volunteers, and the entire Center School District for putting ELL family needs at the forefront of parent engagement!

You may leave replies or questions for Linda on the KCMELLblog and I’ll forward them, or you can write to Linda directly at linnes@center.k12.mo.us

 

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