Extractions: Skip Navigation Links ILR Site Index - Directories Michael True - Consultant TruEnergy Enterprises ... PLEASE! Your Generous Donations Help Build this Site - (Click here for Details) d Independent Life Resources attempts to bring you the most up-to-date SPECIAL EDUCATION/TEACHING support links available. This directory was personally created to support persons with disabilities, senior citizens, and those with other health related needs. This is, however, not an endorsement of any of the programs, products, or services listed. Get personal support, for independent living, program development, or educational needs with connections to Internet resources all over the world, all in one place! Please visit the Independent Life Resources Directories and Site Index Page to view individual page desciptions. Michael S. True, ILR Publishing Editor, TruEnergy Enterprises
Extractions: htmlAdWH('93212823', '728', '90'); Main Children's Mental Health Taking the Bully by the Horns ADVICE I hope you find my research helpful: Recent statistics show that: 1 out of 4 kids is Bullied. 1 out of 5 kids admits to being a bully, or doing some "Bullying." 8% of students miss 1 day of class per month for fear of Bullies. 43% fear harassment in the bathroom at school. 100,000 students carry a gun to school. 28% of youths who carry weapons have witnessed violence at home. A poll of teens ages 12-17 proved that they think violence increased at their schools. 282,000 students are physically attacked in secondary schools each month. More youth violence occurs on school grounds as opposed to on the way to school. 80% of the time, an argument with a bully will end up in a physical fight. 1/3 of students surveyed said they heard another student threaten to kill someone. 1 out of 5 teens knows someone who brings a gun to school. 2 out of 3 say they know how to make a bomb, or know where to get the info. to do it. Almost half of all students say they know another student who's capable of murder.
Industry Information: AEP Online: Archives as well as ideas, support and training on how to get parents involved. Younger children are more responsive, and it is easier to teach them these http://www.edpress.org/industryinfo/newsletter/marketarchives/character.htm
(Vol. 3, No. 2 - Fall 1999) He s been overt in getting his parents involved, and he s the first principalanywhere in How do we train staff to use the best teaching practices? http://www.middleweb.com/CSLV6cipl.html
Extractions: Despite the group's serious purpose, the atmosphere is casual and collaborative. The parents, mostly women, are comfortably dressed in everything from t-shirts to stylish pantsuits. They range from young moms to grandmoms, black and white, sophisticated and plain-spoken. Snacks, coffee, and soft drinks are in good supply. In front of each participant is a jumbo-sized three-ring binder, stuffed to overflowing with the CIPL curriculum, handouts, and assorted sticky notes. A big sheet of poster paper, headed "The Rest Stop," is taped to the back wall of the conference room. It's a place where participants can list specific questions or issues that are off-topic but can be processed at the end of each session. Edelen points to the poster as she offers her next reminder, which might be described as the Institute's "prime directive"
NUT On The Web that is being done to spread effective teaching and learning to every classroom. getting parents to become more involved in their children s education http://www.teachers.org.uk/showwirearchive.php?id=7666616
NSTA - Education News In order to teach evolution in the schools in the current cultural and Websites are offering a new connection for parents to become involved in their http://www.nsta.org/educationnews/&category_ID=269
Extractions: Public officials and educators in several states are offering classroom space to students impacted by Hurricane Katrina. Gov. Rick Perry of Texas has invited students from Louisiana and Mississippi left homeless by the storm to enroll in any of Texas public schools. Cecil J. Picard, Louisianas superintendent of education, has urged school districts unaffected by the storm to enroll homeless students. Universities and colleges are making efforts to help the estimated 100,000 college students whose schools were severely damaged by the hurricane. A California-based foundation has selected a Maryland school system for its next partnership. The Stupski Foundation aims to improve education for poor and minority children. The organization plans to send experts to work with the Baltimore school system for the next three or four years. Our goal is to help the district become really high-performing, observed John Simpson, a former school superintendent and one of three veteran educators who will work with the Baltimore schools. Other school systems that have partnered with the foundation include Cleveland; New Haven, Connecticut; and Jackson, Mississippi.
Title I ask the school system to hold sessions to teach parents about those things . Find out how to get involved in drafting the schoolparent compact. http://www.cleweb.org/issues/title1/tool.htm
Extractions: Title I as a Tool for Parent Involvement How does the new law require that parents be involved? I. Building Parents' Capacity for Involvement Under Title I schools are required to provide assistance to parents to help them understand the National Education Goals and the standards and assessments which will be used to determine children's progress. Schools are also required to help parents understand the Title I law and how to help their children. Each school district (except the smallest ones) is required to spend at least 1% of its Title I funds on training/education program for parents. Parents must be involved in decisions about how that money is to be spent. In fact, parents must jointly develop and approve the district and school's parent involvement policies which should spell out how this money is spent. WHAT YOU CAN DO: Work with the school district in planning use of the 1% (or more) of its Title I funds. Make sure that the school/school district is working with all parents to make sure that they understand what high standards all children should meet and how all children will be assessed. (What kinds of tests will be used, for example, or alternative ways of measuring progress?) Make sure that parents of students with disabilities or of limited English proficiency have the same access to information as all other parents, including getting information in a language and form they can understand, and that activities and meetings are conducted in a language they understand.
Judge: Parents Can't Teach Pagan Beliefs | IndyStar.com The parents Wiccan beliefs came to Bradford s attention in a confidential getting the judge s religious restriction lifted should be a slamdunk, http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050526/NEWS01/505260481
Better Kid Care Past Satellite Workshops Secrets of How to Get parents involved. Help for the new parent and child Talking with children; Discussing problems with parents; getting children to http://betterkidcare.psu.edu/page05b.html
Professional Reading: Teaching And Learning [English Online] Has Accountability Taken All the Fun Out of Teaching and Learning? He reflectson how getting parents involved in their students education also http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/resources/prof_reading.html?sub_type=Teaching
Extractions: TEXT VERSION PRINT-FRIENDLY VERSION Wednesday, September 21, 2005 Site Search GO DOE Home Page About the DOE Media Relations ... Contact Us Good evening everyone. I want to thank Jennifer Raab, President of Hunter College, and Dona Matthews, Director of the Center for Gifted Studies and Education, for inviting me to be here this evening. Itâs an honor to be part of the celebration of opening this new educational resource for New York City. We have long needed a place where teachers and the community can share and display best practices. The Hunter College Center for Gifted Studies and Education will provide a new vital link in the development of best teaching practices for our cityâs most gifted and talented students. I am here tonight to discuss the Department of Educationâs plans for the future. But before I go into any specifics, let me share with you my perspective on gifted and talented education.
Extractions: During the past four years, we have worked closely with our students' families, making efforts to get to know them better to improve classroom instruction in a multiage primary school classroom of six- to eight-year-olds. Through improved instruction, our hope was to enhance the students' learning. Many of the families offered comments similar to these:
Extractions: Get your evaluation ... Programs School Administrators Article S C H O O L A D M I N I S T R A T O R S A R T I C L E Read about how schools across the nation in urban, rural, and suburban areas are breaking down barriers with parents and their communities by making the first day of school an exciting holiday with special activities that include everyone! Typically, on the first day of school, parents drop off their children at the bus stop or the school playground. Maybe they get the kids as far as the classroom door. Then the school doors close and the parents leave. If they're lucky, the school will welcome them back a month or two later for a school-wide open house. Terry Ehrich thought there must be a better way to begin the school year a way that might welcome parents, get them involved, and keep them involved. Ehrich thought the first day of school should be more like the Fourth of July but in this case, a celebration of education.
Teaching Pre K-8: All Around Math Full text of the article, All Around Math from Teaching Pre K8, Gettingparents involved. parents are a huge part of the learning process and when it http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3666/is_200501/ai_n9466533
Extractions: Save a personal copy of this article and quickly find it again with Furl.net. It's free! Save it. Here are some math-tacular book suggestions to show kids that math is everywhere Try some cooking. Attempt some art. Mix in a little writing, perhaps some design and graphics, even some poetry - all of it involves good old Math! It beats anchovies... Sam 's Pizza by David Pelham (Dutton, 1996, ISBN: 0-52545594-9) is truly a favorite read-aloud book for many students. This pop-up book gets lots of funny reactions to the pizza's ingredients, such as eels and bugs. Not only can students draw pizza circles, but they can also study fractions, use a recipe and incorporate creative writing. Linda Mains, a third grade teacher, invites a secret reader to her classroom each month. September is reserved for Mr. Mains (her husband). After he left this September, students wrote about what happens after the pizza is cooked.
Extractions: April 2002 Download this report: 245KB Acrobat file Help for Acrobat file A review of early childhood education and intervention literature suggests that these experiences can affect parents' current and future beliefs and practices (Barnard, 2001). Compared to non-preschool parents, parents of children who participated in preschool activities had higher occupational aspirations for their children, more satisfaction with their children's school performance, and greater parent involvement in elementary years at home and in school. Preschool factors positively affecting later home and school involvement include the existence, amount, and number of years of preschool, as well as follow-on activities once children reach school age. Yet in her review, Barnard also found studies suggesting that early interventions could lead to less home-school communication and involvement later on. Given the importance of this topic for children's later success, and the mixed results of prior research, we set out to explore connections between early childhood education experiences and later family involvement in education. For a full review of transition literature
Want To Teach Children About Money? Dara Ric, this years results were horrible, and the scores are getting But in many cases, the parent doesnt know how to teach about money. http://www.ricedelman.com/planning/kidsncash/teachkids.asp
Extractions: From Inside Personal Finance I have bad news and worse news. The bad news is that thousands of high school seniors recently flunked a test on personal finance, with an average score of just 50%; only 4% of the students passed. The worse news yeah, it gets worse is that these scores are actually lower than they were six years ago. Thats right: In the 1997 study, seniors scored 57%, and they scored 52% in 2000 and in 2004. The tests were administered nationwide by the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy. To learn more about this, I visited with Dara Duguay: Ric: Dara, what on earth is going on? Dara: Ric, this years results were horrible, and the scores are getting progressively worse. The problem is that only 15% of the students in our survey reported learning anything about personal finance in school. That means the number one teacher is the parent. But in many cases, the parent doesnt know how to teach about money. Thus, we often find the blind leading the blind. Ric: The obvious answer is for parents and teachers to become more involved, but as you said, they often know little about personal finance themselves. So, what can they do to learn how to teach money to kids?
Extractions: Getting Extended Family Members Involved Many of the same issues and concerns arise when talking about raising a child who is deaf and raising one who has a milder degree of hearing loss. However, because some children have residual hearing and benefit from the use of amplification devices, their communication and educational needs are different from those who are deaf. Often these children are able to communicate through spoken language. Hard of hearing children face their own set of challenges, as do their parents. To address these individual concerns of parents with deaf of hard of hearing children, the answer portion of the following section has been separated into two categories: 1) For parents of a hard of hearing children, and 2) For parents of deaf children.
Parent Involvement We want to thank parents for returning the Parent Involvement survey. We hada parent come up with the idea of getting a NEEDS LIST and we are asking http://www.glynn.k12.ga.us/GLY/parent_involvement.htm
Extractions: Parent Involvement Parent Link By Millie Santiago Glyndale Parent Involvement Worker NOTE TO PARENTS We want to thank parents for returning the Parent Involvement survey. We reviewed your answers and decided that placing a Parent Link on our schools website will help us inform you of what is going on with our school on a regular basis. We would like to cover some things that were mentioned in the survey. Lets start by talking about what the P arent I nvolvement W orker ( PIW ) does for our school. A PIW is the link between the community, home and school. Every school has a PIW . All Parent Involvement Workers meet on a monthly basis to share information to improve efforts in different Glynn County schools. The main goal is to get the parents involved with their childs school activities. The PIW involves the community through programs that can be helpful for the entire family such as STAR MELD Success by Six Gateway and many more. You can learn more about these programs if you go to the Programs Available Link . All duties have to do with getting resources for parents to help their children. The Family Resource Center (Check our link for more information) has different books, cassettes, videos, flashcards and games that make learning fun at home. It is located in our Media Center. The
Getting Involved :: San Diego City Schools Research shows that when parents are actively involved with their Servicelearning is a teaching strategy that enables students to learn beyond the http://www.sandi.net/parents/involvement.htm
Extractions: When schools work together with families and the community to support learning, children will succeed not just in school but in just about anything they do in life. Extensive research shows that the most accurate indicator of a student's academic success in school isn't tied to family income or social status, but the extent to which a family: The Dads Club provides school-based opportunities for involved fathers to increase the involvement in their child's life and education, and encourage other fathers to become active participants in classrooms and school activities. Participating dads say it has created stronger bonds with their children and allowed them to form a unique network of involved and active fathers. To learn more, visit the
Extractions: Religious freedom in public schools is guaranteed to students in the United States. However, providing religious accommodation must be done without preaching the superiority of one religion or the other. The separation between church and state in the U.S. means strictly maintaining a secular public school system.
