Dual-Role Educator-Parents: How Public Educators Navigate Their Own Children Through Public Education

The purpose of this narrative inquiry was to reveal how parents who are educators navigate their children through public education (from Kindergarten to the completion of high school) and to share their insights with the widest possible audience to ultimately enhance the learning and wellbeing of all children. The premise of this study was that teachers and principals use social capital acquired through their professional practice in their role as parents, and that sharing their experiences with parents who have no insider knowledge may benefit all children. Findings indicated that participants used social capital (knowledge, relationships, and resources) about public schooling to enhance their children’s academic success and wellbeing. Although participants offered advice for all parents and divulged their own personal practices as parents, several also acknowledged the fear some parents would feel to follow their advice entailing involvement with schools, teachers and administrators. As such, policy makers and educators are urged to improve communications that increase parents’ comfort, in order to remove fear as a barrier to involvement and advocacy

Replanteamiento de los recursos cultural y lingüísticamente diversos en un programa de formación inicial docente de Educación Pri

Many teachers enter the profession with a deficit-perspective of their students and their communities, particularly those working with students from low-socioeconomic backgrounds and/or students who are emergent bilinguals. Yet the majority of the students in our schools today come from backgrounds that often have different sets of values and different ways of viewing the world. The result is that, too often, educators adopt a deficit perspective. The goal of this study was to disrupt deficit thinking by introducing preservice teachers to the notion that students arrive in our classrooms with existing funds of knowledge (Moll, Amanti, Neff, & Gonzalez, 1992). Through class activities and assignments, preservice teachers were introduced to the concept of funds of knowledge. This study examines the impact of introducing an asset- based perspective early in candidates’ preparation and asks what shifts occur in preservice teachers’ perspectives of their students and the resources those students bring when engaged in purposeful examination of their own and their prospective students’ cultural funds of knowledge.Muchos maestros ingresan a la profesión con una visión deficitaria acerca de sus estudiantes y de sus comunidades, particularmente aquellos que trabajan con estudiantes de entornos socioeconómicos bajos y/o estudiantes que son bilingües emergentes. Aún así, la mayoría de los estudiantes de nuestras escuelas hoy en día provienen de entornos que a menudo tienen formas de ver el mundo y valores diferentes. El resultado es que, con demasiada frecuencia, los educadores adoptan una visión deficitaria. El objetivo de este estudio fue terminar con la visión deficitaria introduciendo a los maestros en formación la noción de que los estudiantes llegan a nuestras aulas con conocimiento previos (Moll, Amanti, Neff y González, 1992). A través de actividades y asignaciones de clase, los futuros maestros fueron introducidos en el concepto de conocimientos profundos. Este estudio examina el impacto de introducir una perspectiva basada en activos al comienzo de la formación de los candidatos y pregunta qué cambios ocurren en las visiones de los futuros maestros sobre sus estudiantes y los recursos que esos estudiantes aportan cuando se involucran en un análisis intencionado de su propia cultura y la de sus futuros estudiantes

sj-docx-1-ets-10.1177_00472395231197675 - Supplemental material for Co-Teaching in a Digital World: It's Not Teaching by Title, It's Teaching by Talent

Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-ets-10.1177_00472395231197675 for Co-Teaching in a Digital World: It's Not Teaching by Title, It's Teaching by Talent by Kimberly Coy and Libbi R Miller in Journal of Educational Technology Systems</p

Dual-Role Educator-Parents: How Public Educators Navigate Their Own Children Through Public Education

The purpose of this narrative inquiry was to reveal how parents who are educators navigate their children through public education (from Kindergarten to the completion of high school) and to share their insights with the widest possible audience to ultimately enhance the learning and wellbeing of all children.  The premise of this study was that teachers and principals use social capital acquired through their professional practice in their role as parents, and that sharing their experiences with parents who have no insider knowledge may benefit all children.  Findings indicated that participants used social capital (knowledge, relationships, and resources) about public schooling to enhance their children’s academic success and wellbeing.  Although participants offered advice for all parents and divulged their own personal practices as parents, several also acknowledged the fear some parents would feel to follow their advice entailing involvement with schools, teachers and administrators.  As such, policy makers and educators are urged to improve communications that increase parents’ comfort, in order to remove fear as a barrier to involvement and advocacy

Dual-Role Educator-Parents: How Public Educators Navigate Their Own Children Through Public Education

The purpose of this narrative inquiry was to reveal how parents who are educators navigate their children through public education (from Kindergarten to the completion of high school) and to share their insights with the widest possible audience to ultimately enhance the learning and wellbeing of all children. The premise of this study was that teachers and principals use social capital acquired through their professional practice in their role as parents, and that sharing their experiences with parents who have no insider knowledge may benefit all children. Findings indicated that participants used social capital (knowledge, relationships, and resources) about public schooling to enhance their children’s academic success and wellbeing. Although participants offered advice for all parents and divulged their own personal practices as parents, several also acknowledged the fear some parents would feel to follow their advice entailing involvement with schools, teachers and administrators. As such, policy makers and educators are urged to improve communications that increase parents’ comfort, in order to remove fear as a barrier to involvement and advocacy