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Working With Parents: Strengthening Families

The Working with Parents videos are the result of work from Lynn McDonald who piloted the Families and Schools Together (FAST) program at Beacon Primary School, located in a challenging Liverpool community in the UK. The school recruited 14 families to take part in the American-style community-building program. Over seven weeks, the families took part in activities, such as singing and cooking together, and discovered what a sense of community feels like. These videos show how links between communities and schools can affect children’s welfare and education. Some of the topics include: supporting parents across communities; strengthening the family; the strengthening families, strengthening communities approach; and social isolation and parenting.

Filed under Schools Higher Education Businesses and tagged with community Parent Involvement Plan leadership on February 18, 2010 #

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 #

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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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 #

Reading Skills Pyramid

The Reading Skills Pyramid visually depicts the patterns of concept acquisition that children follow in becoming successful readers up through third grade. We recommend a high level of parent involvement in this process by providing high quality educational materials, establishing a pattern of daily reading, creating a rich language environment, and discussing your child's progress with teachers and following up on their recommendations. While most children follow the same sequence of acquiring literacy skills, they do so at their own pace. All children are different: if you have questions or concerns about your child's progress in reading, contact his or her teacher.

Filed under Parents Schools Early Childhood and tagged with reading early literacy literacy phonemic awareness phonics on January 14, 2010 #

Healthy Kids Challenge

Healthy Kids Challenge (HKC) is a nonprofit organization, dedicated to helping schools, programs, and communities with solutions to support kids and families with making healthy eating and physical activity choices.

Filed under Parents Schools Early Childhood Higher Education and tagged with health food nutrition on January 07, 2010 #

A Parent's Guide to Understanding Adequate Yearly Progress

This brochure explains what adequate yearly progress is and how it is determined.

Filed under Parents Schools and tagged with accountability Title 1 school choice NCLB Order from KPIRC AYP on December 15, 2009 #

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A Parent's Guide to Understanding Your Building Level Report Card

This brochure provides answers to questions you may have about your school districts building level report card.

Filed under Parents Schools and tagged with school choice AYP NCLB accountability Order from KPIRC family on December 15, 2009 #

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A Family Guide to Schoolwide Positive Behavior Supports (SWPBS)

The link between families and Schoolwide Positive Behavior Supports (SWPBS) is an important one. When families are meaningfully involved in educational activities their children do better in schools. Families play an important part in their child’s education and social development. The presence of parents in schools not only provides additional academic supports but also creates community and cultural connections. In many schools, family participation in the schoolwide positive behavior support process is growing. Family members are part of state, district, and school planning teams and participate in schoolwide activities in a variety of ways. Family involvement helps to provide consistency between home and school, the key to success for all students. Family members participate in the assessment and problem solving process to create individualized positive behavior support plans when necessary for their children. This booklet is designed to help families understand the important role they play in Schoolwide Positive Behavior Supports.

Filed under Parents Schools Higher Education and tagged with behavior positive behavior support PBS SWPBS on December 14, 2009 #

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