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Feb 2024
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222: Building Better Collaboration Betwe...

JENNIFER GONZALEZ
About this episode

As our student population grows ever more diverse, many schools haven't been quite as successful as they'd like to be when trying to connect with students' families. If current efforts aren't working, it's time we tried a different approach. In this episode I talk with Nawal Qarooni, author of the new book Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations about the specific approaches teachers can take to more authentically involve families in their children's education 

Thanks to Listenwise and Khan Academy Kids for sponsoring this episode.

For links to Nawal's book and a transcript of this conversation, go to https://cultofpedagogy.com/pod and choose episode 222.

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