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Parents' Guide to Student Success

From the National PTA: The Parents’ Guide to Student Success (linked from the site in English and Spanish) was developed in response to the Common Core State Standards in English language arts and mathematics that more than 40 states, including Kansas, have adopted. Created by teachers, parents, education experts, and others from across the country, the standards provide clear, consistent expectations for what students should be learning at each grade in order to be prepared for college and career.

Filed under Parents Schools Espanol and tagged with national standards Common standards Common Cord Standards PTA standards curriculum curricular standards on March 29, 2011 #

Classroom Family Engagement Rubric

HFRP invited the Flamboyan Foundation to share its classroom family engagement rubric. The rubric provides districts, school leaders, and teachers with a clear picture of what effective family engagement looks like in the classroom through concrete descriptions of how teachers demonstrate strong family engagement through their daily practice.

Filed under Schools Early Childhood and tagged with family engagement meaningful family engagement rubric FINE HFRP Flamboyan on March 10, 2011 #

Cyberbulling Research Page

The Cyberbullying Research Center is dedicated to providing up-to-date information about the nature, extent, causes, and consequences of cyberbullying among adolescents. Cyberbullying can be defined as "willful and repeated harm inflicted through the use of computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices."

Filed under Parents Schools Higher Education and tagged with cyberbullying online harassment bullying on February 10, 2011 #

Podcast: Parents, Books and the Roots of Literacy

Conventional wisdom tells us that children learn to read in school, but research continues to show how much the skills that influence a child's reading success are being established long before they arrive in those pre-kindergarten and kindergarten classrooms. For a taste of what this research means and its implications for schools and early childhood programs, Early Ed Watch spoke with Gabrielle Miller, a former teacher and national expert on early literacy interventions whose work has included running several initiatives for Reading is Fundamental and developing programs for the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, MD.

Filed under Parents Schools Early Childhood Higher Education and tagged with literacy early literacy podcasts on February 02, 2011 #

Ruth Clark Elementary School-Mid Year Report, 2010-2011

The Ruth Clark SuperHero program is designed to encourage students to read and to encourage parents to take an active part in their child’s reading practice. At the beginning of the year students were given a STAR reading test to determine the reading level and zone of proximal development (ZPD). This data then determined the number of Accelerated Reading points each child should earn during the school year.

Filed under Schools and tagged with family school partnership family project partnership FPP Parent Involvement Plan Title 1 on January 25, 2011 #

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The Teacher-Parent Relationship: Using Professional Development to Improve Family and CommunityEngagement Webinar

The U.S. Department of Education and its partners United Way Worldwide, National PTA, SEDL, and Harvard Family Research Project are proud to bring you a free webinar series on family, school and community engagement. The Achieving Excellence and Innovation in Family, School, and Community Engagement webinar series is an opportunity for stakeholders representing national, regional, and local organizations to learn about family, school, and community engagement research, best practices from the field, and new innovations that are making a difference in school improvement and student learning.

Filed under Schools and tagged with parent involvement family engagement relationships professional development on January 25, 2011 #

Making Resources Count

Education Resource Strategies has released a practical kit of tools designed to help districts begin the process of identifying and addressing resource decisions that don't support improving student performance. "The Teaching Job: Restructuring for Effectiveness" is one of six publications specifically designed to help district leaders analyze and optimize school system resource allocation, and includes a self-assessment to help district leaders begin to understand the best practices for restructuring the job of teaching, and to match district resources with instructional priorities. The guide offers practical direction for restructuring the teaching job tailored to a district's situation, and enables district leaders to gauge how their district stacks up in terms of defining and measuring teacher effectiveness, hiring, growth, compensation, and career paths. It also helps to assess school-based support for teachers and the causes of misalignment between resource allocation and strategic goals. It identifies actions that district leaders can take, and helps determine priorities for reallocating resources and leveraging federal dollars.

Filed under Schools and tagged with Resources School Improvement on December 17, 2010 #

Family Engagement: A Critical Component to Building An Empowering Culture in the Kansas Multi-Tier System of Support

Family engagement is a key aspect of Kansas MTSS. For this reason, schools must make a concerted effort to involve families as early as possible. The PTA National Standards for Family School Partnerships focus on what families, schools, and communities can do together to support positive student outcomes. Each of the six standards includes quality indicators for successful partnerships. The standards are available on the National PTA website, www.pta.org.

Filed under Schools and tagged with MTSS multi-tier system of support KSDE on November 30, 2010 #

Family Professional Partnerships (Online Module)

CONNECT: The Center to Mobilize Early Childhood Knowledge recently released CONNECT Module 4: Family-Professional Partnerships, which focuses on effective practices for developing trusting family-professional partnerships in early care and education programs (including home visiting, early intervention and other 0-3 settings). CONNECT Modules are free and use an evidence-based approach to professional development. They include video clips, activities, and handouts that are designed to be embedded into existing curricula, coursework and other professional development opportunities.

Filed under Parents Schools Early Childhood Higher Education and tagged with CONNECT modules family school partnership family professional partnership connecting with families relationships on November 30, 2010 #

How To Help Your Child Become a Better Reader - Espanol

As a child learns to read, your role is to help young readers experience joy and begin to view reading as a pleasurable experience. You can also help children become independent readers through praise and encouragement provided while reading. It is critical that children realize success while reading. This booklet will help children become better readers through offering guidance and giving you tips on how to encourage and support a child’s reading. This is the Spanish version.

Filed under Parents Schools Espanol and tagged with family engagement family literacy Title 1 Order from KPIRC tips parent involvement phonics testing fluency on November 03, 2010 #

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