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Toolkit to Support Family-Community Partnerships

The New Mexico Public Education Department has created, "Working Together: School-Family-Community Partnerships, A Toolkit for New Mexico School Communities." The purpose of the Toolkit is to assist educators and education partners with information, resources and strategies to help strengthen parent and community involvement. The toolkit is designed to make schools places that foster community collaboration and make parents and families feel welcome.

Filed under Parents and tagged with tips community on October 17, 2008 #

Spelling Time

The weekly spelling test is your child’s first encounter with scholastic evaluation in today’s highly competitive environment. SpellingTime.com is an interactive tool designed to prepare children for these tests by utilizing a fun, dynamic and "Mommy Free" approach. Parents or children can enter the spelling words each Monday and SpellingTime.com will create a 4 step, instructional learning program predicated on the marriage between leading edge technology and good old fashion repetition and reward processes.

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The new Parents and Schools blog

The new Parents and Schools blog will also feature insights of other experts who will share their thoughts and opinions. Offering as many as two new articles per week on important parent involvement topics, upcoming blog articles will discuss: “Breaking down the barriers to parent involvement?” “What’s wrong with this picture?” “What success secrets do these people know?” “Parent involvement and at risk students?” “A few bad apple parents?” “The single greatest issue in education,” and many more. Readers can view the blogs at www.parent-institute.com/blog.

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Test Your Knowledge: Find Your Child's Learning Style

Even though two kids may have the same parents, their approaches to learning can make it seem like they come from different planets. Experts such as Howard Gardner, professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, have studied these divergent learning styles, also known as "multiple intelligences." Gardner's premise, first outlined in his book Frames of Mind, is that children have different natural ways of learning, and that parents and teachers who are aware of how children learn can greatly enhance what they learn.

Filed under Parents and tagged with learning styles scholastic on October 17, 2008 #

More Parental Power in Revised NCLB Urged

Advocates want the federal law to give states the power to enforce the parental-involvement sections of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), reports David J. Hoff in Education Week. The No Child Left Behind Act has expanded parents’ power over their children’s education and given them more information about student achievement than ever before. But Congress ought to take further steps to promote parental involvement when it reauthorizes the five-year-old law, parent activists told a Senate panel last week.

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Talk to the Hand: An Innovative Use of an Age-Old Toy

For Georgianne Walsh, of New Jersey, a beloved raccoon puppet known as Chester acts as the official greeter for her kindergarten students every morning. Amy Wallace, who teaches in New York City, created a puppet named Maya about whom her first graders became so concerned that Wallace purchased a tent for her to sleep in at night. In Las Cruces, N.M. Toni Gross's preschoolers are endlessly intrigued by a mouth-shaped puppet named Besos she uses to demonstrate oral movement when teaching speech and language. These puppets, simple hinged paper devices, were all inspired by an innovative website called Puppetools.com. Brainchild of a boundary-busting educator named Jeffrey Peyton, Puppetools provides a wide array of resources designed to introduce teachers and students to a stimulating world of educational play centered on puppetry. "When play enters the classroom, it transforms everything," says Peyton. "And when the play involves puppets, the power opens up and moves into the hands of the students." This is a man who is serious about play. Peyton feels that the whole concept has been marginalized in public education, mostly because so many teachers are intimidated by it, writes Burr Snider in Edutopia magazine. "The idea of communicating playfully using a device like a puppet is just too far out for most adults, and I think that speaks volumes about the classroom environment," Peyton says. "Lots of teachers strive for standardized behavior, and I think children sense this deeply and suffer from it, from prekindergarten on into high school."

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A New Take on Parental Involvement?

Parents Forum is a grass-roots organization concerned with family life issues. Our vision is a shared network of communities, small and large, where we have access to the resources we need to do the best we can at the most important job in the world: raising children.

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Connect with Kids

We’ve developed more than 120 multimedia programs with curriculum for elementary, middle and high school students – and their parents. The largest school districts in the country are successfully using our programs in classrooms and parent groups. Research shows that the Connect with Kids programs are changing student behavior in the classroom and inspiring parents to talk with their children about today’s issues.

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Family Involvement in Elementary School

This research brief synthesizes the latest research that demonstrates how family involvement contributes to elementary-school-age children's learning and development. The brief summarizes the latest evidence base on effective involvement—specifically, the research studies that link family involvement during the elementary school years to outcomes and programs that have been evaluated to show what works.

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Tomasito's Mother Comes to School/La mamá de Tomasito visita la escuela

When his Spanish-speaking mother makes an unexpected visit to his classroom, second-grader Tomasito is angry and embarrassed...until he discovers that his mother and teacher actually want to get to know each other better in order to help him learn. This online storybook about family involvement at school includes a children’s story, along with an informational guide for adult family members and discussion questions. The story draws from the real experiences of one Latino boy and his family who are acculturating to the U.S. The storybook is designed to engage children, inform and inspire their families, and help educators build connections with families, all while supporting literacy. Developed from research by HFRP's Ellen Mayer and full of vibrant illustrations by award-winning children's book illustrator Joe Cepeda, this bilingual storybook is an easy-to-use family involvement resource that can be downloaded, viewed, and printed out for free on HFRP’s Family Involvement Storybook Corner website.

Filed under Parents Espanol and tagged with - on October 17, 2008 #

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