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Best Practices for Creating a Family-Friendly Climate. Does your program feel welcoming to all families?. “I feel welcome here…everything says that we belong, that we are part of the family.” What messages does your program space send to families?
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Does your program feel welcoming to all families? • “I feel welcome here…everything says that we belong, that we are part of the family.” • What messages does your program space send to families? • Are there spaces for families to gather comfortably to talk? • Do your classrooms display welcoming images of diverse families? • Do your classrooms offer information, documentation and displays that are interesting to families as well as to children? • Are there opportunities for families to get involved and share decision making?
Creating a Family-Friendly Climate • Find Creating a Family-Friendly Climate in your binder materials for Learning Session 4. • Take 5 or 10 minutes to review the best practices listed and note the ones you already do and the ones you would like to do. • Discuss as a table group. Were there any best practices that were new to you? Share ideas for putting them into practice. • Choose someone at your table to report out some of your ideas for implementing best practices.