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Families and heritage schools

A programme in preparation for families and heritage schools. It offers teacher training, curricula and a shared library.

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  1. Yalda M. Kaveh (2017). Family language policy and maintenance of Persian: the stories of Iranian immigrant families in the northeast, USA. Language Policy. DOI 10.1007/s10993-017-9444-4
  2. Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, Akram Khosravi (2021). The process of acquiring the heritage or home language by children in immigrant families (A case study of Iranian migrant families to Georgia). International Journal of Multilingual Education. DOI 10.22333/ijme.2021.19009
  3. Fatemeh Hajnaghizadeh (2026). Parenting Toward Belonging to the Not-Yet-There: Identity and Imagination in Iranian Immigrant Families. Proceedings of the 2026 AERA Annual Meeting. DOI 10.3102/2283574
  4. Maryam Salahshoor (2017). Maintaining Farsi as a Heritage Language in the United States: Exploring Persian Parents’ Attitudes, Efforts, and Challenges. DOI 10.13021/mars/4063
  5. Hadis Tamleh, Saeed Rezaei, Nettie Boivin (2022). Family language policy among Kurdish–Persian speaking families in Kermanshah, Iran. Multilingua. DOI 10.1515/multi-2021-0130

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01What it offers

  • 01

    Teacher training

    Training for weekend and Saturday school teachers.

  • 02

    Curricula

    Language curricula for Persian and other languages of Iran.

  • 03

    Family learning

    Activities parents and children can do at home.

  • 04

    Shared library

    Teaching materials shared between schools, with their sources.

02Who it is for

  • Parents
  • Heritage school teachers
  • Children and teenagers
  • School organisers

03How it works

Interest
schools and families register interest.
Training
teachers take the training course.
Materials
schools use and adapt the shared curricula.
Exchange
schools share what works with each other.

04What it always keeps

  • Every language of Iran is welcome.
  • Materials are non-partisan and plural.
  • Schools follow the safeguarding policy.
  • No data on children is collected.

05Courses

  • Heritage language education · Practitioner

    Saturday-school teacher training

    Teaching Persian to children of the diaspora in weekend and community schools.

    Wave 1 · 30 h Outline drafted

  • Persian language · Foundations

    Persian A1

    First steps in spoken and written Persian for everyday life.

    Wave 1 · 40 h Outline drafted

  • Persian language · Foundations

    Persian script and reading (ZWNJ, nasta’liq)

    Reading and writing the Persian script, from letter shapes to the half-space and nasta’liq.

    Wave 1 · 20 h Outline drafted

  • Iranian food and everyday culture · Foundations

    Nowruz and the Iranian calendar

    Nowruz, its customs and the solar calendar that sets it, shared by many peoples and faiths.

    Wave 1 · 6 h Outline drafted

06More in Development

  • Forming

    Youth

    A network for young people on leadership, identity and heritage.

  • Forming

    Women

    A network for women on leadership, enterprise and mutual support.

  • In preparation

    Elders

    Company, care and the recording of memory for older members of the community.

  • In preparation

    Wellbeing

    Vetted referrals to culturally competent mental health and social care.

  • In preparation

    Newcomers

    First steps in a new country, with a local guide from a Chapter.

  • In preparation

    Convenings

    Festivals, lectures and gatherings, with private venues and published rules.

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APA

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. (2026). Families and heritage schools. iranians.global. https://iranians.global/development/families-and-heritage-schools/

Chicago

Iranian Diaspora Cooperation & Development Council. 2026. “Families and Heritage Schools.” iranians.global. https://iranians.global/development/families-and-heritage-schools/.

BibTeX
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	author = {{Iranian Diaspora Cooperation \& Development Council}},
	year = {2026},
	note = {Licence: CC BY 4.0},
	title = {Families and heritage schools},
	url = {https://iranians.global/development/families-and-heritage-schools/},
	howpublished = {https://iranians.global/development/families-and-heritage-schools/},
}

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  1. Family language policy and maintenance of Persian: the stories of Iranian immigrant families in the northeast, USA

    Yalda M. Kaveh · 2017 · Language Policy

    ArticleOpenAlexOpenAIRE

  2. The process of acquiring the heritage or home language by children in immigrant families (A case study of Iranian migrant families to Georgia)

    Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia, Akram Khosravi · 2021 · International Journal of Multilingual Education

    ArticleCrossref

  3. Parenting Toward Belonging to the Not-Yet-There: Identity and Imagination in Iranian Immigrant Families

    Fatemeh Hajnaghizadeh · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 AERA Annual Meeting

    ArticleCrossref

  4. Maintaining Farsi as a Heritage Language in the United States: Exploring Persian Parents’ Attitudes, Efforts, and Challenges

    Maryam Salahshoor · 2017

    ThesisOpenAlexOpenAIREOpen access

  5. Family language policy among Kurdish–Persian speaking families in Kermanshah, Iran

    Hadis Tamleh, Saeed Rezaei, Nettie Boivin · 2022 · Multilingua

    ArticleOpenAIRE

  6. Experiencing Anti-Immigrant Policies on Both Sides of the U.S./Mexico Borderland: A Comparative Study of Mexican and Iranian Families

    Sandra L. Candel, Shahla Fayazpour · 2019 · Education Sciences

    ArticleDOAJOpen access

  7. Heritage language policies of the Iranian diaspora in New Zealand

    Khadij Gharibi, Corinne A. Seals · 2019 · International Multilingual Research Journal

    ArticleOpenAlexOpen access

  8. In search of home : family literacy practices among Iranian refugee and immigrant families

    Mahshid Ghaffartehrani · 2018 · University of British Columbia

    ArticleDataCite

  9. Persian as a Heritage Language

    Anousha Sedighi · 2018 · Oxford Handbooks Online

    BookCrossref

  10. ‘You are Iranian even if you were born on the moon’: family language policies of the Iranian diaspora in the UK

    Khadij Gharibi, Seyed Hadi Mirvahedi · 2021 · Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

    ArticleOpenAlexOpen accessCC-BY

  11. Family Language Policy towards Heritage Language Literacy Acquisition and Maintenance: Iranians in New Zealand

    Khadij Gharibi, Corinne A. Seals · 2019 · Springer eBooks

    ChapterOpenAlex

  12. Linguistic competence of Persian heritage versus second language speakers

    Karine Megerdoomian · 2020 · The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy of Persian

    ChapterCrossref

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