Leveraging School-Family-Community Collaborations Toward Learning and Leading With Latinx (Im)Migrant Farmworker Families

• In Event: Student, Family, and Community Engagement for Educational Leadership

Abstract

This study examines the equitable collaboration a rural school district forged with Latinx (im)migrant farmworker families and community partners to shift power dynamics instantiated in engagement and leadership processes. Using data from interviews, observations, and institutional documents collected over the course of 5 months through a qualitative case study design, the emergent themes include (1) Latinx migrant families as decision makers; (2) Cross-sector goals and responsibility for transforming unilateral relations; (3) Systemic strategies for leveraging and learning from subaltern experiential knowledge; and (4) Collaboration with families as a political process. The school-family-community collaboration cultivated in this district provides key insights for re-envisioning traditional partnerships with minoritized families.

Author

• Henedina Tavares, University of Washington - Seattle