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- Education Tips for Parents
Education Tips for Parents
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As a parent, you are your child's first and most important teacher, and the learning you do together doesn't stop when children head off to school. Click on the links below for ways to be an active part of your child's education.
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Academic Support
5 tips for developing important study and organizational skills
- Helping with homework
- How to stay involved in your older student's education
- Staying involved in your child's education
- Supporting your gifted child
- Teacher-tested tips to support learning for young children
- Ways to get the most out of parent-teacher conferences
- Ways to support your child when he struggles academically
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Community Service
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Health, Wellness, and Safety
- 25 ways to make kids safer
- Raising healthy active kids (resource links)
- Teens, drinking, and drugs (resource links)
- Keeping your child moving at home
- Raising fit and active kids
- School Bus Safety
- Supporting healthy habits at home
- Staying healthy during cold and flu season
- Tips for helping your child deal with peer pressure
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Earth Day Ideas
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Internet Use and Research
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Literacy and Communication
- 10 Activities for sparking the writing bug in your child
- At-home reading reinforcers
- Literacy tips for young children
- A closer look at close reading
- Discover great books to read with your child
- Four benefits to learning another language
- Improving information literacy
- K-12 literacy skill-builders
- K-12 resources to encourage your reader
- More tips for supporting literacy
- On-the-go literacy activities for the early grades
- Tips for communicating with your child when you are angry
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Parental Involvement
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Social Studies and Civics
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Tips for Students
- Choices after high school - Postsecondary planning
- Helpful hints for the transition to college
- How to make it through the college admissions process
- How to make the most of your college visit
- Questions to ask during the college search
- Reinforce financial literacy skills at home (resource links)
- Sparking the entrepreneurial spirit in your child
- Tips on Volunteering for Teens