The Kansas Parent Information Resource Center (KPIRC) provides technical assistance to schools and districts with the information, training, and tools needed to successfully involve parents in their children’s education. KPIRC also helps districts and schools comply with the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation and Title 1 mandates by providing information on district and school parent involvement policies and school-parent compacts.
2010 Kansas Parent Leadership Conference Brochure
This brochure presents detailed information on the 2010 Leadership Conference. Filed under Parents Schools Early Childhood Higher Education Businesses Espanol and tagged with PLC Parent Leadership Conference on August 16, 2010 # |
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The Education Innovator Volume IX, No. 5
In this issue of The Education Innovator, a new era of parent and family engagement – one informed by a "skyscraper full of research" concerning the role that parent, family, and community engagements play in children's learning and success in school – is explored. Both a national working group of key stakeholders in parent and family engagement and the national network of Parental Information and Resource Centers are working hard to ensure success in this new era. Filed under Parents Schools Early Childhood Higher Education and tagged with MTSS multi-tier system of support national standards on July 19, 2010 # |
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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. Within the Kansas Multi-Tier System of Supports (MTSS) framework, an empowering culture is a key component that supports the effective instruction of students. Families should be involved from the beginning as a school creates an empowering culture to support implementation of MTSS. Families need information on how MTSS will impact their children. This includes understanding what data will be collected, how it will be used and what supports will be provided to their child. Filed under Parents Schools Higher Education and tagged with MTSS multi-tier system of support collaboration on May 06, 2010 # |
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Parent Teacher Education Connection: Online Parent Modules!
The goal of PTE Connection is to help teachers and early childhood professionals work more effectively with parents and families across cultures to improve student achievement. Our curriculum has been revised to align with the PTA National Family School Partnership Standards, which were endorsed by the Kansas State Board of Education. Each standard has been developed into an online module that can be used for professional development. Filed under Schools Early Childhood Higher Education and tagged with PTA national standards Welcoming Supporting Student Success Communicating Speaking Up for Every Child Collaborating with the Community professional development on April 27, 2010 # |
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Collaboration for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
CASEL was founded in 1994 by Daniel Goleman, the author of Emotional Intelligence, and educator/philanthropist Eileen Rockefeller Growald. CASEL's first years focused on gathering scientific evidence to demonstrate the contributions of social and emotional learning to students' school success, health, well-being, peer and family relationships, and citizenship. While still conducting scientific research and reviewing the best available science evidence, over time CASEL has increasingly worked to provide SEL practitioners and school administrators with the guidelines, tools, informational resources, policies, training, and supports they need to improve and expand their SEL programming. Filed under Parents Schools Early Childhood and tagged with social/emotional social learning social development on March 25, 2010 # |
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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 # |
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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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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 # |
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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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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 # |
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