Parental Involvement
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Homeschooling Your Gifted Child
Homeschooling has been on the rise for the past decade. In 2017, it was reported that 3.3% of the nation’s students, about 2.3 million ... -
How to Know If You’re a Helicopter Parent… and How It Could Impair Your Child’s Development
As technology enables us to be more and more connected and aware of the often frightening happenings throughout the world, parents and educators are ... -
Reinventing the Way We Measure Family Outcomes
The lack of family focus and inability to measure family outcomes has many people wondering if we need to reevaluate this entire process. Connecticut’s ... -
How Student-Led Conferences Work
If you are a parent lucky enough to be working with a genuinely progressive teacher, they may tell you that instead of the traditional ... -
How a Traditional Parent-Teacher Conference Works
Your child spends about 180 days with their teachers. If you want your child to live up to their potential academically, then you have ... -
Providing Your Child With The Right Foundation For Academic Success
Before focusing specifically on what a child is learning, parents must lay the foundation for academic success. This starts with a healthy lifestyle. For ... -
Instilling a Love of Learning in Your Child
To help their child attain academic success, parents must show an active interest in education. This is, in fact, one of the most natural ... -
Why Parental Involvement Matters
Parent involvement is actually the best predictor of a student’s educational achievement. Parent involvement demonstrates to the student the importance of school, resulting in ... -
How to Help Your Child Get Ready for Kindergarten
I have several friends who are kindergarten teachers, and their number one complaint is the lack of school readiness that they observe in many ... -
5 Ways to Advocate for K-12 Students in Your Community
Every week I receive calls and emails from parents who have legitimate problems and issues with how their child’s school operates. In response, I ...
