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Mi Padre centers on the promise of parent involvement practices that build upon the range of linguistic and sociocultural resources that Latin@ immigrant students and their families bring to school. Through the experiences of Mexican immigrant fathers and their children, this book illustrates the need for humanizing family engagement. Gallo identifies the many ways these fathers contribute to their children’s education and how educators can communicate more effectively with immigrant families. Mi Padre also shows the consequences of deportation-based immigration policies on elementary school education and offers strategies for supporting students and their families in the classroom. The author stresses the importance of learning from and with families and offers practical suggestions for how to build relationships with all caregivers as a counterpractice to the one-size-fits-all schooling that many teachers, students, and families experience today.

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Mi Padre is a thought-provoking book that urges educators working with minoritized children and families to challenge the status quo and support children's learning by valuing resources from home under the current constraints of increasing accountability. --Anthropology & Education Quarterly ... a valuable resource for thinking critically about the concept of 'privilege' and how to support students who have faced/are facing a particular type of trauma...a required text for teachers at the beginning of their career as well as for more experienced teachers in their continuing professional development. --Language and Education Highly recommended for undergraduate and graduate programs, especially education, sociology, Latina studies in education, multicultural education, English as a second language programs, and social justice in education. --Teachers College Record With its humanizing approach, it is a refreshing read during this time of charged political rhetoric and turmoil. --Harvard Educational Review

With its humanizing approach, it is a refreshing read during this time of charged political rhetoric and turmoil. --Harvard Educational Review Highly recommended for undergraduate and graduate programs, especially education, sociology, Latina studies in education, multicultural education, English as a second language programs, and social justice in education. --Teachers College Record ... a valuable resource for thinking critically about the concept of 'privilege' and how to support students who have faced/are facing a particular type of trauma...a required text for teachers at the beginning of their career as well as for more experienced teachers in their continuing professional development. --Language and Education Mi Padre is a thought-provoking book that urges educators working with minoritized children and families to challenge the status quo and support children's learning by valuing resources from home under the current constraints of increasing accountability. --Anthropology & Education Quarterly

With its humanizing approach, it is a refreshing read during this time of charged political rhetoric and turmoil. --Harvard Educational Review Mi Padre is a thought-provoking book that urges educators working with minoritized children and families to challenge the status quo and support children's learning by valuing resources from home under the current constraints of increasing accountability. --Anthropology & Education Quarterly ... a valuable resource for thinking critically about the concept of 'privilege' and how to support students who have faced/are facing a particular type of trauma...a required text for teachers at the beginning of their career as well as for more experienced teachers in their continuing professional development. --Language and Education Highly recommended for undergraduate and graduate programs, especially education, sociology, Latina studies in education, multicultural education, English as a second language programs, and social justice in education. --Teachers College Record

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Sarah Gallo is an assistant professor of bilingual and immigrant education in the department of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University.

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