Heat Waves: Resources for Schools
These resources provide tips and multilingual resources for schools and families about keeping children safe during dangerous heat waves.
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Heat Waves
It is essential for schools to ensure that multilingual families have information keeping their children safe during heat waves, as well as updated information about school closures, delays, and early dismissals. These resources offer a starting point, with additional recommendations below.
Related Resources
- Extreme Heat: Bilingual Tips to Keep Kids Safe When Temperatures Soar (HealthyChildren.org)
- Heat Wave Safety Tips in 4 Languages (UNICEF)
- Heat Wave Safety (Save the Children)
- Keeping Kids Safe During a Heat Wave (Climate Council Australia)
- School Safety Tips for Heat Waves (LA Parent)
- What to know when your child starts school during a deadly heat wave (CNN)
Headlines
- As temperatures rise, schools without AC struggle to keep students healthy and learning (PBS NewsHour)
- A heat wave, and lack of air conditioning, disrupt school districts nationwide (NPR)
- Extreme heat is cutting into recess for kids. Experts say that's a problem (NPR)
Natural Disaster Resources for Schools: Partnering with Multilingual Families
The following articles offer multiple tips and resources for schools:
- How Schools Can Partner with ELL Families During Natural Disasters: Learn how schools can partner with multilingual families when preparing for and responding to natural disasters that impact the local community.
- When Your School Community Is Impacted by a Global Crisis: Learn how schools can provide social-emotional support for students who are impacted by crises in other places, such as their countries of origin.
- How to Support Multilingual Families Displaced by a Natural Disaster: Learn how schools can support multilingual families who have been displaced by a natural disaster in another city or country. (This resource section includes examples of community partnerships that supported families following Hurricane Maria.)
- Communicating with ELL Families: 10 Strategies for Schools: Learn how to stay in contact with English learners and their families and how administrators can support that outreach. This article also includes multiple tools, resources, and tips for collaboration.
