School Home Assist

School Home Assist (SHA)

With the primary responsibility of a SHA being to help with communication between home and school, some of the ways schools can utilize them are to:

• Provide interpretation at parent meetings/conferences;

• Call parents to invite them to meetings/relay school information;

• Assist parents with filling out school forms;

• Assist schools with written translation or oral interpretation of school-wide letters to parents;

• Administer the Native Language Proficiency (NLP) test to ELL students who qualify;

• Accompany school staff on home visits;

• Serve as a cultural resource to schools;

• Serve as communication support between schools, ELL families, and community resources.