 Reaching out to parents with different cultural backgrounds, it can mean a lot of things because it can mean different home culture, it can mean different religion, it can be just a different type of group in your own society, I mean one that you are not really familiar with. I think that the best strategy, which is of course not a strategy, is to be interested, to be genuinely interested. And of course that also needs this type of lifelong learning urge on the side of the teacher. So to understand it as a teacher you will become more if you learn about cultures that you don't know. And if parents see that this is a genuine interest then they will be happy to contribute on their own cultural differences or their own traditions. There are all these kind of traditional things to invite the parents to bring in their national food, to bring in their special traditions for a certain time of the year. So instead of celebrating Christmas, let's have a look at how different cultures celebrate the shortest day because we all know that Christmas is celebrating the shortest day or that the shortest day is over. But the basis is the genuine interest in the parents' background. What you can do is very much dependent on the age of the children. When you work with small children it's much easier to work with these basic traditions, how things are done in a different way at home, in your own little community. When the children are older you can even combine it with educating the parents because especially from groups where some of the parents have low education and they come with a relatively low level of education into your country, you can organize evenings when they talk about their national poets, writers, when they compare historical events, what happened and how was it like in your country in the 17th century. And it's amazing because for example when the English Revolution happened in 1640, East of Europe was in a feudal state and they had Turkish occupation and if you look at those then a lot of learning can happen. So basically you can be creative and there are methodologies all over the place but the answer for involving different cultural background parents is being genuinely curious. If your curiosity is killed then probably you should check whether you are burnt out or not because if a teacher is not curious anymore there is something wrong. When it comes to parents who speak a different language from your own it's difficult because in more and more contexts you will even have students who speak a different language from your own. When communicating with the parents it's relatively easy to use the children as translators but it's overused because when the children are present they should be there to express their own views and not to act as translators or translators only. So I would rather recommend to try when you genuinely need to have a face-to-face one-to-one type of conversation with a parent to find another parent who is fluent in both languages or to find a colleague who knows some of the other language but not to use the child as a translator and translator only.