Parent Web Links
Helping your Teen with homework – Beginning in middle school, homework gets more intense and grades start to matter more. At the same time, teens face a lot of other big changes. Parents can play a crucial role in helping teens handle these challenges to succeed in school.
Kids Health: School and Family Life – All parents need a little advice now and then. Get the lowdown on parenting basics like discipline, homework help, and how to talk to your child about tough subjects like sex, tobacco, and alcohol. Plus, find out where you can turn for help and support.
Adolescent Literacy – AdLit.org is a national multimedia project offering information and resources to the parents and educators of struggling adolescent readers and writers.
Launching Young Readers – Parent Tips – A child’s success as a reader begins much earlier than the first day of school. Reading, and a love for reading, begins at home. These five sets of tips have been put together for busy parents to help kids become successful readers.
Great Schools – Grade-by-grade steps to success for students to solve education-related problems, raise expectations for your child’s learning, develop education-related parenting skills, and access helpful resources online.
Great Schools – Grade-by-grade steps to success for students to solve education-related problems, raise expectations for your child’s learning, develop education-related parenting skills, and access helpful resources online.
Have a Conversation About School – Talking about school with your children shows them that you value education and keeps you aware of what’s going on in their lives, but what should you do when they don’t want to talk?