Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations is the book we all need to fuel our practice and feed our souls. Nawal Qarooni has gifted us with a book that truly celebrates the beautiful connections between home and school. We are invited to center love, honor families and the journey of learning, and make connections beyond the classroom walls with our community. Qarooni’s book is inspiring and necessary and I feel like I’ve been waiting for this book for way too long.
—Tiffany Jewell, Author of the #1 New York Times-bestselling book This Book Is Anti-Racist, educator and mama
Nawal’s book is a gift to educators and caregivers alike. Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations is a beautiful reminder and proactive resource to cultivate and sustain family partnerships.
—Liz Sohyeon Kleinrock, Author of Start Here Start Now: A Guide to Antibias and Antiracist Work in Your School Community
Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations is a must-read. Nawal’s practical, insightful, reflective, and honest approach beautifully illustrates how we can embrace the power of collective care in our classrooms.
—Britt Hawthorne, New York Times-bestselling author of Raising Antiracist Children: A Practical Parenting Guide
Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations is a compelling and thought-provoking book. Nawal Qarooni uses her personal experiences as both a parent and an educator to highlight the value of genuine family engagement in promoting the success of students.
—Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Ph.D. Professor and author of Advancing Racial Literacies in Teacher Education: Activism for Equity in Digital Spaces, Teachers College, Columbia University
If educators truly want to embrace families and include them at school, this book offers guidance for building better relationships and challenges biases and misconceptions about what families need and expect for their children.
—Donalyn Miller, Author and teacher
A stirring and brilliant call to action for everyone invested in the well-being of young people—educators, parents, and KidLit writers alike. Qarooni provides a framework for how we can better exalt young people in all of their complexity, braiding together their lived experiences from school to home and everything in between. This book gave me so much to think about as both a parent and as a writer and advocate for young people.
—Jasmine Warga, Author of A Rover’s Story and Other Words for Home
Through a series of deeply personal family stories intertwined with practical tools for reflection and action, Nawal Qarooni challenges educators to recast our conceptions of family literacy engagement and brings to life what truly centering family, community, and relationships can mean for supporting students’ pursuit of advanced literacy.
—Jane Fleming, Coauthor of More Mirrors in the Classroom: Using Urban Children’s Literature to Increase Literacy
This book is both brilliant and artful. Its content, its narrative, and even its gorgeous design bring forward a generous and care-full vision of the relationships between literacy and love, kinship and learning, school and home. What an absolutely stunning treasure.
—Carla Shalaby, Author of Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School
Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations provides a fresh and humanistic perspective into how educators can engage with caregivers in authentic and dynamic ways. This book will warm your educator soul with its beautiful stories and message, inspire you to rethink and reimagine family engagement, and provide practical next steps for application.
—Dr. Cindy Bak, Assistant Director at the Cotsen Foundation for the ART of TEACHING