Stop the SUMMER SLIDE . . . summer ideas for parents

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Stop the SUMMER SLIDE . . . summer ideas for parents 🔆

Parent Engagement Tools to increase student achievement.

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Delivering Academic Supoort between home a school

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Delivering Academic Supoort between home a school ★

Family engagement resources designed for Title I schools, bilingual families, and districts committed to student achievement.

THE PROBLEM

Schools know family engagement improves student success –

But most engagement efforts don’t reach what matters most:

What happens between parent and student.

THE SOLUTION

Family engagement tools to . . .

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    Improve home learning conversations

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    Support bilingual families and increase confidence

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    Strengthen school-to-home communication

WHO IS IT FOR?

Superintendents

Principals

Family Engagement Directors

Title I Coordinators

Bilingual Education Programs

Featured Products

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  • the PARENT Notebook

    Exclusive, one-of-a-kind, fully-customizable parent notebooks that provide essential K-12 academic information to parents.

    Make planning of family engagement programs easier. Save time and resources with ready-to-use, translated to Spanish, content to use year-after-year.

    Meet migrant, homeless, and home-schooled student needs with an organized, and historical record of their education.

    Explore Parent Notebooks
    Three white notebooks with covers featuring children's photos and graphics, labeled "The Parent Notebook" with the middle notebook emphasizing "The Middle School Years."

  • The Involved Parent “TIP” cards

    Short, ready-to-use activities for parents and students to “to think about, to talk about, and to do” together. 

    Keep busy parents involved all year by offering monthly “tip” cards to continue the education conversations at home.

    Versatile “tip” cards are a perfect way to insert academic information into various activities:

    Explore Tip Cards
    A collection of educational cards about school-related topics, with the first card addressed to parents discussing back-to-school information and standards.

  • aROUND CONVERSATIONS SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL LEARNING (SEL)

    Research shows students practicing academic and social-emotional conversations do better in school.

    Topics to practice and prompt social-emotional learning conversations at school and at home.

    Explore aRound Conversations
    Around Conversation circle card explaining social skills, social learning, and ways to practice at home. It includes questions and tips for helping children develop social skills like communication, cooperation, relationships, and respect.

  • CARRY-ON Learning Packet

    Create a packet of learning aids for K-5 students to CARRY-ON learning anywhere and anytime.

    • Extend learning at home

    • Learning Packet for spring, winter, summer breaks

    • Portable, organized tools for Migrant education programs and homeless students

    • Create custom Learning Packs

    Explore Learning Packets
    Collection of educational family resources including a family learning at home folder, a story discussion guide, reading tips, schedules, and calendars, with content in English and Spanish.

NEW! Stop the SUMMER SLIDE

Simple tips for parents to keep students learning during the summer.

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Elementary to high school tools that complement the Parent Notebooks

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Explore our range of fully Custom Educational Tools

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Set of colorful informational handouts for parents covering topics like school conferences, homework, reading, study habits, and parent involvement, with the first page displaying a message from the principal.

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A collection of colorful school-related bulletins, including a personal letter to parents covering various academic topics displayed in a fan arrangement.
A collection of back-to-school flyers and bulletins, including a blue envelope promoting middle school parent involvement and upcoming school events for the fall, September, and October.
A stack of informational cards about parent involvement at home and school, with text and icons, secured with a red key ring.
A display of folders and a notebook organizer for parents and students with sections labeled School & Career, My Stuff, and School Records, featuring images of framed memories and a chalkboard.

"Help has arrived!"

Superintendent introducing the Parent Notebook™ Bulletins

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  • "It's empowering to see parents bring their notebooks to parent-teacher conferences . . . they are now prepared to meet with teachers and are ready to take full advantage of the parent-teacher conference."

    — Middle School Principal

  • "We “LOVE” the Parent Notebooks and are making them a part of the way we do business. It makes sharing the information with our parents easy. Having everything in Spanish and English too is a HUGH help . . . I’m able to conduct parent training to a bilingual group simultaneously. Teachers are also seeing how this information helps reinforce their efforts in the classroom."

    — Title I Coordinator, High School

  • "I am so happy the district had the parent classes and the notebooks. The notebook reminds me of what I can do to help my son at home (translated from Spanish.)"

    — Parent Middle School

  • "The information is so easy to understand . . I’d like to have parent notebooks for every parent in our school."

    — Parent Center Coordinator, Elementary School

  • "It’s hard for all parents to participate in parent education classes. So we try to meet parents where they are and so we give out parent “tip” cards for parents to support their son or daughter at home."

    — Principal, Elementary School

  • "These bulletins are perfect . . . they’re easy to understand and each page covers only one topic . . . it’s great for busy parents and keeps them informed . . it’s the type of information that I would have liked to put together, but now I don’t have to . . . it’s already done and translated into Spanish too."

    — Principal,  Elementary School

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