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Choosing
a School for Your Child Download PDF (1.4 MB) This reader-friendly guide helps parents navigate the process of choosing a school for their children. It explains some of the public school choices--from charter to virtual schools--as well as private school options available to parents. It also outlines four steps for selecting a school and includes questions that parents may consider when going through the process. |
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to School Checklist Download PDF (56 KB) This 3-page checklist provides questions and tips for parents, schools, and the community as they prepare for the upcoming school year. It helps parents ask the right questions to make sure that the factors that go into a quality education are closely monitored. |
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Helping
Families by Supporting and Expanding School Choice Download PDF (64 KB) This two-page guide helps explain expanded educational options for parents under the No Child Left Behind Act. |
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Taking
a Closer Look: A Guide to Online Resources on Family Involvement Download PDF (824 KB) This 50-page comprehensive resource guide compiles a wealth of information about family involvement from over 100 national organizations. It contains web links to recent research, information, and tools, as well as resources about family involvement in early childhood education, elementary, middle school, and high school. It includes family involvement in several contexts, including home, school, and out-of-school time programs. |
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School-Parent-Community Partnerships Resource Book Download PDF 315 KB This resource guide was developed by the Indiana Department of Education as part of its statewide school improvement plan. The guide provides a comprehensive review of nationally accepted standards on parent involvement, considerations for implementing and evaluating parent involvement programs at the local level, and sample tools such as parent, teacher, and administrator surveys, a team work plan, and compacts for teachers, students, and parents. |
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Teacher Welcome Packet Download PDF 773 KB Developed by Wisconsin's Department of Instruction and the Wisconsin PIRC, this document provides useful parent involvement information for new and "seasoned" teachers. This is also an excellent resource for teacher educators to use when integrating parent involvement in teacher education curriculum. |
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Conway Middle School: Student-Led Conferences Download PDF 165 KB Student-led conferences spotlight the most important person in the process (the student); improve parent involvement; and bring students to the point where they ask their teachers, “How can I make my work better?” Student-led conferences put the students in charge, holding them responsible and accountable as they present their work to their parents. This type of conference is a natural progression in the quest for a Standards-based school. |
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The
First Day of School Activity Guide Download PDF 1.29 MB This publication is all you need to get started. It includes program examples, sample letters, a collection of First Day stories, frequently asked questions, and planning checklists. The Activity Guide is a valuable tool for your First Day planning team. |
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Choosing Better Schools: A Report on Student Transfers Under the No Child Left Behind Act Download PDF 1.64 MB More families are benefiting from the school choice mandates of No Child Left Behind than is generally recognized, according to a report by the Citizens' Comission on Civil Rights. But incomplete data might have greatly underestimated the actual number of students who applied to transfer or actually did so. The commission called on the U.S. Department of Education to "enforce the data collection and reporting provisions of the law." Further, most states ranked the choice provisions as a low priority and did little to help districts carry them out effectively. |
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ABC Book of Education Terms: Additional Special Education terms have been added as well as a math glossary at the end of the booklet that contains # of commonly used terms in mathematics.
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Watch KANSAS Key Education Facts and Figures Download PDF 283 KB Published by the Education Trust, Inc (Winter 2002-2003) this document provides an overview of the state of education in Kansas comparing academic progress of students from all ethnicity groups from elementary school through college. You can get onto the Education Trust website at www.edtrust.org to compare educational progress of Kansas students to other states. |
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Homework
Tips For Parents Download PDF 2.13 MB This 20-page booklet, in English and Spanish, lists numerous suggestions for helping parents support their children at home with homework in reading and math. It also provides general information for parents on No Child Left Behind. |
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Teacher's Guide To Homework Tips For Parents Download PDF 78 KB This 17-page guide presents information that teachers can share with parents on the value of homework and how they can support their children's learning at home in reading and math. |
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Parents
Rights Download PDF 1.81 MB This bilingual document, developed by Region VII Comprehensive Center at the University of Oklahoma is a useful document to teach parents of ELL about general parent rights as well as how school systems in the United States are structured and run. It includes pre-assessment that you can give to parents to determine their understanding of general parent rights. The handout Parents Rights Answer Sheet below includes the answers to pre-assessment in this document. |
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No
Child Left Behind State Responsibilities Download PDF 159 KB This document, developed by the Council of Chief State School Officers, provides an overview of the No Child Left Behind legislation and how your state is required to respond to this federal education legislation. It explains in detail how the state then is mandated to work with your local school district and school in ensuring that the law is being implemented. |
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Gaining
Ground Newsletter Download PDF 1.10 MB Gaining Ground, the newsletter of the Chief Council of State School Officers, focuses on parent and community involvement. In this issue you’ll find articles by Anne Henderson, "Ten Things Every Parent School Know about the No Child Left Behind Act." |
