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FPG Child Development Institute recommended in early developments (Winter 2008) these professional development goals to enable teachers to partner with parents of boys of color to promote achievement...

• Understand values, beliefs, norms, expectations, and practices of families of color.
• Learn and use a variety of approaches/strategies for reaching out to families from diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Be familiar with differences and similarities across contexts of development in discipline strategies, communication styles, language/dialect, goals/expectations for boys of color.
• Learn strategies for conveying expectations to families and soliciting/asking parents to share their expectations of the school/teacher.
• Provide parents with materials and strategies to support boys learning at home.
• Learn about and employ strategies for having productive discussions with families about difficult subjects.
• Strategize on how to repair relationships and partner with "difficult" parents.
• Create varied and multiple opportunities for parents to participate in classroom activities.

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