Learning begins in the womb, and the family’s involvement in a child’s life has a lasting impact on a child’s health and success. The Kansas Parent Information Resource Center (KPIRC) provides parents and educators with early childhood information and training. KPIRC also supports policies, programs, and organizations that promote family involvement in a child’s growth and development throughout early childhood.
KPIRC 2008-2009 Annual Summary Report
The Kansas Parent Information Resource Center promotes meaningful parent involvement at all levels of education and provides information and resources to help parents, educators and other organizations promote the educational success of every Kansas child. This report summarizes the work of the KPIRC for the 2008-09 grant year. Filed under Parents Schools Early Childhood Higher Education Businesses Espanol and tagged with Order from KPIRC accountability on February 22, 2010 # |
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Collaborating with Families
The IRIS Center and the PACER Center have created an interactive, online module to support educators in diversifying and improving family participation in school. In the module, a principal and staff demonstrate how they gain information about of their students' families because this helps them best engage all members of a family in education. Many schools enjoy a high level of parental involvement from some families, but schools should be ever-interested in increasing involvement, especially among families of students with disabilities. Filed under Schools Early Childhood Higher Education and tagged with Parent Involvement Plan parent leadership on February 18, 2010 # |
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Circles of Caring: What Child Abuse Prevention Looks Like
The West Virginia Prevent Child Abuse America Chapter has created a short video based on the Strengthening Families Protective Factors. It is a powerful combination of the recent Frameworks reframing research blended with the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) Protective Factors framework. Filed under Parents Early Childhood and tagged with protective factors child abuse prevention social/emotional on January 26, 2010 # |
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Reading Tip Sheets for Parents
Reading, and a love for reading, begins at home. Our one-page Reading Tip Sheets offer easy ways for parents to help kids become successful readers. Although we've divided these tips by age, many of them can be used with children at various ages and stages — we encourage you to choose the ones that work best for your child. Tip sheets for parents of children in Preschool through Third Grade are available in eleven languages! Filed under Parents Early Childhood Espanol and tagged with early literacy fluency phonemic awareness phonics literacy reading on January 15, 2010 # |
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Born Learning: Your Child At...Series
Throughout the early years, your child will grow and change tremendously. For more information about your child’s age and stage, use the following tools. Includes information on development, immunization schedules, discipline, and more! Filed under Parents Early Childhood and tagged with development immunizations parenting on January 14, 2010 # |
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A Place of Our Own
KCET’s A Place of Our Own (and Los Niños en Su Casa) is a daily television series, a website, and an extensive outreach program devoted to the unique needs of people who care for children. Family, friends and neighbors – everyone who takes care of young children – are child care providers. Every interaction and every activity of these adults with their charges provide valuable opportunities to help children learn and grow. A Place of Our Own shares ways for us all to help children acquire cognitive, social, emotional and physical skills, as well as nurture language and literacy development. Filed under Parents Early Childhood and tagged with high quality preschool early childhood education podcasts literacy on January 14, 2010 # |
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Our Book by Us!
Download this book and use it with your child to create a wonderful masterpiece! This book was created to give every adult and child a fun way to spend time together, even if you only have five minutes a day. Filed under Parents Early Childhood and tagged with reading writing early literacy literacy on January 14, 2010 # |
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American Academy of Pediatrics: Literacy Toolkit, Sharing Books Tip Sheets
Families discuss the important matters that take place in a doctor's office including vaccines, sleep issues, speech development, and so many other topics that are essential to a child's development. Filed under Parents Early Childhood and tagged with literacy reading early literacy on January 14, 2010 # |
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National Wildlife Federation's, "Be Out There!" Green Hour Activities
A daily dose of the outdoors will improve your family's overall well-being and inspire a life-long appreciation of wildlife and nature. Check out the activities and events listed below and make time for a Green Hour today! Filed under Parents Early Childhood and tagged with outdoor activity physical activity physical development recess play on January 14, 2010 # |
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Reading Rockets Classroom Templates
Parents love to know what's going on in their child's classroom. A weekly newsletter is a great way to keep the communication going. We've created a ready-to-use, editable newsletter template complete with extra graphics and more than 50 reading tips. Filed under Early Childhood and tagged with early childhood special education early childhood education education newsletter on January 14, 2010 # |
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