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Tips for Parental Involvement
Web resources and publications for parental involvement in education.
Sometimes parents, even those who use technology in their jobs, leap ahead without professional partnering.
For example, one on-line service portrays a parent, wishing he could go to a sports event rather than accompanying his child to a library to prepare a report on dinosaurs. Lo and behold, a friend demonstrates how a service can provide a 2 page encyclopedia article about dinosaurs and off they go to the sports arena, printout in hand.
Here are some resources for a better outcome.
Especially for Parents - Department of Education
http://www2.ed.gov/parents/landing.jhtml
The DOEd has a multitude of resources for homework assistance and education in general in their Especially for Parents section.
NWREL publications for Parents
http://educationnorthwest.org/catalog
/parent-and-community-involvement-products
Similarly, NWREL offers a wide range of publications for parents, on such as subjects as balancing life and work, charter schools, planning for youth success, and homeschooling.
CyberKids
Cyberkids offers an opportunity for young artists and composers to display their work. The site has educational games and other resources.
One would describe this publishing opportunity as "free-hand" rather than school-like.
PACER - Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights
The Center for Family Involvement at Rutgers and PACER sites address strategies for encouraging family involvement.
Both are highly regarded nationally.
Discovery Education's Parent Channel
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/parents/
The Discovery School's section for parents provides tips for school readiness, updated annually, and thorny issues such as a potential mismatch between a student and teacher.
ECAP Collaborative
http://ecap.crc.uiuc.edu/about.html
Formerly, the ERIC space for early and elementary-aged children, ECAP (the Early Childhood and Parent Collaborative) contains publications which can be downloaded easily.
Thanks to the University of Illinois.
Student Edge
StudentEdge is a free online college and career planning resource center. It offers tools to help all high school students take ownership of the college planning process by letting them find scholarship money, prepare for exams, search for colleges, and explore career interests.
