Extractions: Return to Federal Citizen Information Center Home Page Chapter 7: Getting Involved And Staying Involved Parents do not need to feel they are alone in helping their children stay drug- free. For the first time ever, there are preventative intervention programs that have been proven to be effective and are available to schools, families and communities. Children have the best prospects for leading healthy, drug-free lives when schools support parents in their anti-drug message. There should be nothing confusing or contradictory in what children learn about drugs from the adults in their lives, and school policies need to reflect the same attitude toward alcohol and drugs that you express at home: Drug use is not acceptable. Drugs diminish a child's ability to concentrate and follow through on academic responsibilities, they cause loss of motivation and absenteeism, and students who use them can be disruptive and drain teachers' time and energy. The best way to ensure that the anti-drug policies at your child's school are strong is to be involved. You can: Learn about the current policies regarding alcohol and other drugs at your child's school.
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Extractions: October of each year is designated as Parent Involvement Monthâa time when Parent Teacher Associations (PTAs) around the Nation put an extra emphasis on the importance of parent participation in a child's life. Getting involved in your child's life at school may seem challenging and time consuming, but the benefits of playing an active role are countless. What's dinnertime like in your home? Does everyone heat up their own meal in the microwave at different times and retire to their own corner of the house? Eating dinner together as a family has become a lost art. A lot of emphasis is placed on what we eat, but not on how we eat. Yet there are many benefits to sitting down together as a family to share a meal. Time flies! Itâs an old saying, but in todayâs fast-paced world, itâs never been so true. Before we know it, our kids are all grown upâout on their own or off to college. Most parents realize the rewards of close family ties. Yet the demands of jobs and day-to-day household activities can be stressful and tiring. So, itâs easy for quality time with our kids to get squeezed out. When the first sweet days of spring finally arrive, the schedules of parents and kids alike tend to change. Sometimes the schedule-shifting is necessary to accommodate baseball practice or the upcoming end-of-the-year piano recital. Other times, schedules shift as families head off to spring festivals or kids spend more time playing outside. Keeping children focused on schoolwork can be a challenge, but it is necessary to help them finish the school year successfully.
Extractions: For and About Members Help for Parents Press Center Legislative Action Center ... Other Resources A Michigan survey Parents say they want to be more involved Teachers say they want to communicate more Michigan Education Association making the most of parent-teacher conferences Major League Soccer (MLS) and NEA have launched a new literacy program, "
Resources For Parents How parents and Families Can HelpTheir Children Do Better in School; getting Readyfor College Early to encourage parent and public involvement in the http://www.bcps.org/offices/lis/resources/parentres.html
Extractions: The Parents Guide to the Internet is intended to help parents - regardless of your level of technological know-howmake use of the on-line world as an important educational tool. The guide gives parents an introduction to the Internet and suggests how parents can allow their children to tap into the wonders of the Internet while safeguarding them from its potential hazards. Electric Library a fee-based database of full text magazine and newspaper articles for which students and parents have remote access - use from home. Literatue Resource Center, a fee-based database relating to authors and literary criticism. (See library media specialist for your school's password and logon directions for these databases.)
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Extractions: you are here: home getting involved projects Regional Projects are initiated by the Center for Nonviolent Communication sm to create national teams capable of offering Nonviolent Communication sm training in countries within that area of the world. At present we have four such projects in operation: African Project coordinated by Dunia Hategekimana, includes Burundi, Congo, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and other countries. Eastern European Project Latin American Project coordinated by Jorge Rubio includes Argentina, chile, colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. South Asia Project coordinated by Father Chris Rajendram, includes NVC activities in India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Theme projects are initiated by the Center for Nonviolent Communication sm to create specialized Nonviolent Communication training programs which focus on certain areas of application. These are some of our theme projects: Parenting Project coordinated by Inbal Kashtan focuses on creating a space for children to grow up acting out of joyful choice instead of guilt, shame, obligation, fear of consequences or desire for reward.
Extractions: Fortunately, many programs throughout the country are recognizing the incredible amount of information that parents need to do their jobs well. And although parenting classes will never be mandatory, the following three programs are making a difference for caregivers and children. Starting at the Beginning Parents as Teachers (PAT) starts as early as any program can, offering pregnant women what they need to know before they even become parents. Rather than requiring parents to meet in a classroom each week, PAT instructors go to the homes of parents and parents-to-be. The program is firmly based on research of early brain and child development, and teachers translate science into information parents can use to guide their kids through every stage.
'Beyond Ready' To Teach means they visit and help teach in one that the title implies from getting theclassroom and writing lesson plans to holding parent conferences, overseeing http://www.glef.org/php/article.php?id=Art_834&key=039
Family Involvement Is Important to no more than two hours on school nights getting personally involved Parentscan also work with schools to develop new ways to get more involved. http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=371979
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Extractions: Be a good listener. Let your children know they can always come to you with their problems. Show respect for your children's concerns. Establish eye contact with your child when he or she is talking to you. If you are reading or working on an activity, set it aside so your child will have your full attention. Offer encouragement to help your children share ideas and ask questions. Help your children set realistic goals. Children are more likely to succeed when goals are short-term so they don't lose interest. The best goals are easy enough for them to accomplish, yet challenging enough so that they will grow. Praise your children for their efforts and avoid too much pressure. If your son is learning a musical instrument, for example, help him set a goal of practicing every day and comment on the improvement you notice. Don't demand that your children always be the best. Remember, we all have off days.
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Extractions: Families today take many different shapes and forms. In many instances, biological parents are not always children's primary caregivers. In this article, the words families and parents are used in the inclusive sense to refer to the group of any and all people who form the main community of caregivers to children. The first article - The home-school connection 1 - gave the rationale behind involving the parents in student learning and outlined two classroom routines that help to achieve this, namely the making of hands-on learning tools which pupils take home to show their parents and the production of an English folder to store these materials. This second article offers three more classroom routines and suggestions for further reading on this topic. As detailed before in The home-class connection 1 , a critical aspect of parental involvement is creating opportunities for parents to have firsthand, demonstrable evidence of what and how their children are doing in class. However, it's rarely possible to invite parents to the class to have them see their child's progress firsthand and to provide them with an opportunity to question and comment on their child's activities and progress.
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Extractions: Parents A question that more and more parents, especially young teen parents, need to ask themselves is whether or not they are raising a future gang member? Will they as parents be one of the weeping mourners at a funeral in the not so distant future? Some scientists claim there is posttraumatic stress disorder among Mexican American gang members coming from exposure in childhood to violence and abuse (Tome 1993). However, there is very little written about what parents can do specifically in these dysfunctional neighborhoods. In many instances, parents need parenting classes themselves. Why is everyone so reluctant to investigate parents as a primary source of the problem? There is a growing number of "children with children" teen parents who are unprepared and overburdened. They need to stop having babies as a rite of passage to maturity or a ticket to welfare financial aid. In the current study, mothers who later decided they had made a mistake, left their children to grandma (sometimes the same person they complained had ruined their own lives). Others left the child to anyone who would watch out for itan aunt, a cousin, etc. Most gang members come from just such homes, from very similar abandonment experiences, and from other noxious home environments where the parents fight violently. Many gang members described a childhood tainted by neglect by their parents, guardian, or foster home (Williams 1992 :88).
"Bullying" - How To Stop It!, NF96-309 (Revised October 2003) caution here Some bullies actually feed on getting a response. This may be a casefor adult involvement.). There are times when parents must be an advocate for http://www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/family/nf309.htm
Extractions: John DeFrain, Extension Family and Community Development Specialist Previous Category Catalog Order Info "Bullying" is a common experience for many children growing up. According to the National Association of School Psychologists, about one in seven school children-that's about 5 million kids-has been either a bully or a victim. And the costs of this situation are enormous. Children who experience persistent bullying may become depressed or fearful. They may even lose interest in going to school or being involved in church or other activities. What can a parent do? It's important to arm kids against bullies early on-to teach them how to avoid being bullied and how to defend themselves when such abuse occurs. It's also important to teach your children not to be bullies. Before you can take steps to protect your child, you need to understand what bullying is and why some kids tend to get picked on more than others. What is bullying?
Wcr:03/06/2000 -- Parents Discuss Schools' Identity concern, however, is not so much a loss of Catholic identity in the classrooms, butgetting parents to do We need more parents to get involved with things http://www.wcr.ab.ca/news/2000/0306/schoolsidentity030600.shtml
Extractions: Edmonton Catholic education has a history of more than a century in Edmonton. But with issues such as fundraising and shared school facilities arising for Catholic schools, west side trustee Debbie Engel saw the need to revisit this history. "There's all kinds of issues facing us as parents and educators," Engel said. "It's important for us to talk about how these issues affect us. Are we morally doing the right thing, following our Catholic teachings?" Engel hosted a workshop, Understanding the Foundation for the Role of Parents in Catholic Education, Feb. 23. The event, held at Good Shepherd Church, attracted almost 100 parents and school staff and administrators. "We have to see where our responsibilities lie as Catholic parents," Engel said. "We have to look at who we are and where we're going." The focus of the workshop, said Engel, was to increase the participants' understanding of their Catholic identity, clarifying the link between this identity and the schooling of Catholic children and to highlight the responsibilities of parents in the school system.
Child Safety On The Information Highway need a certain amount of privacy, they also need parental involvement. . them stumblingonto inappropriate material or getting into an Guidelines for parents. http://www.safekids.com/child_safety.htm
Extractions: "'Cyberspace,' the 'Web,' the 'Net,' the 'Information Highway'" — Whatever The Benefits of the Information Highway The vast array of services that you currently find online is constantly growing. Reference information such as news, weather, sports, stock quotes, movie reviews, encyclopedias, and airline fares are readily available online. Users can conduct transactions such as trading stocks, making travel reservations, banking, and shopping online. You can find information about your local schools and government, read an out-of-town newspaper, or obtain vital health information. Millions of people communicate through electronic mail (E-mail) with family and friends around the world. Others use the public message board chat areas to make new friends who share common interests. You can even use the Internet to watch video and listen to audio programs produced by major media companies, businesses, organizations, and even individuals. As an educational and entertainment tool users can learn about virtually any topic, visit a museum, take a college course, or play an endless number of computer games with other users or against the computer itself.
Extractions: you are here: home getting involved gratitude project We invite you to participate in The Gratitude Project . The purpose of this project is to contribute to a more peaceful world, one in which people more fully appreciate each other and the power each of us has to make life more wonderful. Each of us has a need to contribute to others, and we need to have feedback letting us know if and when we have done that. Thanking people who have contributed to our well-being provides this feedback and also gives us a chance to express our gratitude. In many cultures this process is mixed up with rewards and various other impediments to natural giving and receiving. Here is a way to express gratitude that is likely to be satisfying and also provide useful information to the one thanked. Think of someone who has done something that contributed to your life in some way. This could be something everyone would agree is a significant contribution, or it could be some apparently small gesture. What matters is only that YOU found the person's action to be valuable to you. Now write down: what the person did how you feel when you recall what the person did: grateful, relieved, touched, pleased, etc.
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Extractions: T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood®OKLAHOMA is a new scholarship program for Oklahoma child care providers. T.E.A.C.H. stands for Teacher Education and Compensation Helps. The Oklahoma Department of Human Services contracts with the Early Childhood Association of Oklahoma to operate TE.A.C.H. The program, which began in North Carolina in1990, increases the educational level of child care staff. This leads to higher wages and lower staff turnover.
