Cultural Bridges is an Issaquah Schools Foundation run program that helps build relationships between families, their children, the District, and the community.
Cultural Bridges
Cultural Bridges is for everyone! As our community grows, the Issaquah School District is becoming more and more culturally diverse. Cultural Bridges helps parents feel more confident becoming involved in school and supporting their students at home.
Based on demographic trends, Asian, and Latino student populations have increased significantly over the past decade and the district is about 43% white students and 57% students of color.
For all of us, learning about other cultures lets us have more meaningful interactions with those around us. Cultural Bridges helps our community to build respect and empathy, and to celebrate our differences as well as our similarities. Parents who are new to the state or the country may not know how best to support their children’s education.
Questions? Contact Alicia Spinner, Cultural Bridges Manager at 425.391.8557 or alicia@isfdn.org.
Cultural Bridges Magazine
Cultural Bridges is an Issaquah Schools Foundation run program that helps build relationships between families, their children, the Issaquah School District, and the broader Issaquah community through outreach, events, mentoring, translation services and a magazine published in eight languages including: Arabic, Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
Parents who are new to the country may not know how best to support their children's education. Through culturally sensitive support offered either in families' native language or in English, Cultural Bridges helps parents feel more confident becoming involved in school and supporting their students at home.
See all current issue of Cultural Bridges Magazine and the Cultural Bridges Family Guide issues below. Past issues available here.
Cultural Bridges Family Guide
Cultural Bridges is for everyone! Our cities across our region keep growing and expanding into thriving communities made up of transplant families of all backgrounds, arriving from other states or countries. As our area grows, our district is becoming more culturally diverse.
For all of us, learning about other cultures lets us have more meaningful interactions with those around us. Cultural Bridges help our community to build respect and empathy, and to celebrate our differences as well as our similarities. Parents who are new to the state or the country may not know how best to support their children’s education. Through culturally sensitive support offered either in English or in families’ native language, Cultural Bridges helps parents feel more confident becoming involved in school and supporting their students at home.
See all current of the Family Guide issues below. Past issues available here.
Cultural Bridges Staff
The Cultural Bridges program publishes a magazine that helps families navigate the Issaquah School District and the cities of Issaquah, Sammamish, Newcastle, Bellevue, and Renton. The magazine is currently offered in English, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
