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.
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 # |
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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 # |
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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 # |
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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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How to Develop a Logic Model for Districtwide Family Engagement Strategies
How to Develop a Logic Model for Districtwide Family Engagement Strategies is a step-by-step guide to help you understand and develop a logic model for districtwide family engagement efforts. It is designed to accompany Seeing is Believing: Promising Practices for How School Districts Promote Family Engagement, a policy brief created by Harvard Family Research Project and the National PTA. Filed under Schools Early Childhood and tagged with Parent Involvement Plan logic model continuous improvement effective practices family school partnership on November 30, 2009 # |
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Student Led Parent Conferences
Student-led parent conferences increase parent involvement in schools. Research reveals that parent participation in conferences increases 40 to 60 percent when student-led conferences are implemented as opposed to traditional teacher-led conferences. Filed under Schools and tagged with student performance high school teachers family school partnership parent leadership communication Title 1 Order from KPIRC parent teacher conferences on October 19, 2009 # |
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Proclamation
Proclamation by Governor Mark Parkinson that October, 2009 is Parent Involvement month. Filed under Parents Schools Early Childhood Higher Education Businesses Espanol and tagged with proclamation on October 09, 2009 # |
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