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Social Emotional Learning and Bullying Prevention

While bullying is a pervasive problem in many schools, schools can take specific steps to improve the school climate and encourage positive interactions designed to reduce or prevent bullying. Schools using a social and emotional learning (SEL) framework can foster an overall climate of inclusion, warmth, and respect, and promote the development of core social and emotional skills among both students and staff. Because bullying prevention is entirely congruent with SEL, it can be embedded in a school’s SEL framework. The aims of this brief are to (a) provide a basic description of a school-wide SEL framework, (b) illustrate the relationship between social and emotional factors and bullying, and (c) explain how an SEL framework can be extended to include bullying prevention.

Filed under Parents Schools Early Childhood and tagged with bullying social/emotional social development on March 25, 2010 #

Social Emotional Development in Early Childhood: A Booklet for Kansas Families

This booklet has been complied to provide information on the development of social and emotional skills in young children and is intended for use by Kansas families.

Filed under Parents Early Childhood and tagged with social/emotional social development Early Learning Document on March 12, 2010 #

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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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Healthy Children

The Administration for Children and Families Office of Head Start has created a new website designed to empower parents that is supported by the American Academy of Pediatrics. The site includes information about ages and stages from prenatal through young adult. It also includes healthy living information (e.g., nutrition, fitness, sports, oral health, and emotional wellness), as well as safety and prevention information, health issues, news, and tips and tools. and “Ask the Pediatrician” or “Find a Pediatrician” features.

Filed under Parents and tagged with health development on January 26, 2010 #

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 #

Engaging All Parents

Research about the positive impact of Parent Involvement, presented by KPIRC Director, Jane Groff.

Filed under Parents Schools Higher Education Businesses and tagged with ESEA Law Title 1 research on January 26, 2010 #

Coffeyville Community Elementary School, Family and Parent Partnership Project Report (FPPPs)

The Kansas Parent Information Resource Center (KPIRC) annually supports five Family and Parent Partnership Projects (FPPP’s) in public schools across Kansas. These schools are asked to plan, strategize, implement and evaluate family engagement efforts in their school. Each school submits an annual proposal to KPIRC with a specific plan for family engagement planning and strategies for the school year. This is the Family and Parent Partnership Project midyear report from Coffeyville, Kansas.

Filed under Parents Schools and tagged with effective practices family family school partnership Parent Involvement Plan Family Centers on January 18, 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 #

Institute for Youth, Education and Families

The YEF Institute has published a new toolkit on Preventing Gang Violence and Building Communities Where Young People Thrive. The toolkit draws upon lessons learned over the past three years from the California Cities Gang Prevention Network, a 13-city network formed to identify strategies for reducing gang violence and victimization. The kit highlights a wide range of city practices and contains eight chapters divided into three sections: marshalling resources to fund anti-gang strategies; strategic partnerships within the criminal justice system, and with county agencies, schools, neighborhoods, and the faith community; and targeted approaches, including street-level outreach and facilitating reentry from detention facilities.

Filed under Parents Schools Businesses and tagged with high school gang preventions guidance community family family school partnership public education parenting on January 15, 2010 #

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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