Maine Resources
A Family Guide to Keeping Youth Mentally Healthy and Drug Free
This site is provided by The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and is a resource developed to support the efforts of parents and other caring adults to promote mental health and prevent the use of alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs among 7- to 18-year-olds. family.samhsa.gov/
AIM at Middle-Grades Results
AIM is a comprehensive school reform program that assists schools in becoming high-performing learning and caring organizations. AIM school achieve this goal by focusing on six key design elements, and gauging their progress on each by instituting the practices and structures articulated in the three phases of AIM's implementation benchmarks. Go to the website for the complete program. www.takingaim.org/components/design.htm
Articles on Parent Involvement
Charter Schools: Creating and Sustaining Family Friendly Schools
Charter schools hold great promise for reforming the American system of public education, and much of that promise rests on their ability to involve parents and the community in constructive ways. As schools of choice, charter schools have to win and maintain families approval in order to keep students enrolled. In response, the Creating and Sustaining Family Friendly Schools document was created as a way to help charter schools develop family-friendly schools that are deeply connected to their communities. www.uscharterschools.org/gb/familyfriendly/
Concept to Action: Action Steps for Implementing Family and Community Involvement in School Health
With the enactment of the No Child Left Behind legislation, family and community partnerships with schools have become central. Making Health Academic has updated the action steps on the website in the field of family and community involvement. To access the action steps for Family and Community go to: www2.edc.org/makinghealthacademic
"Especially for Parents" from the U. S. Department of Education
This website provides information and resources for parents, including tool kits, how to plan for college, tips on how to monitor homework, and even "News Parents Can Use." www.ed.gov/parents/landing.jhtml?src=fp
KnowledgeLoom:School, Family, and Community Partnerships
Strategies, research, and resources for developing School, Family & Community Partnerships. Family involvement research clearly demonstrates that children thrive academically when the family and the school agree that they are stronger together than apart. knowledgeloom.org/sfcp/index.shtml
National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education: A Framework for Family Involvement
A comprehensive and meaningful partnership meets the needs of the families, schools, and communities involved, and incorporates each of the concepts below in ways that are unique to the school community. As a result of these partnerships students do better in school and in life, parents become empowered, teacher morale improves, schools get better, and communities grow stronger. www.ncpie.org/DevelopingPartnerships/
Parent Nights Focus on Test Taking Skills
As students, teachers, and schools face increasing pressure to improve student performance on standardized tests, involving parents as a critical "fourth partner" in improvement efforts makes more than just good sense -- it improves student learning. Last spring, Armstrong Middle School in Starkville, Mississippi implemented a new parent program that provides a good model of how schools can involve parents in student learning in a way that is consistent with these findings. This story shares the details. www.takingaim.org/aboutaim/feature_parent_night.htm
Project Appleseed: Leave No Parent Behind
Project Appleseed is provided by the National Campaign for Public School Improvement. Subjects on their website include award-winning parent programs, tips on how to choose a public school, a parental involvement checklist: "How is Your School Doing?", No Child Left Behind news, a Parental Involvement Toolbox, and much more. www.projectappleseed.org/
School-Parent Compact: Action Guide for Parent and Community Leaders
The compact is a written agreement between parents and school personnel designed to clarify what schools and parents can do to help children reach high academic standards. Every school receiving Title I funds must develop a compact which is a written commitment indicating how all members of a school community -- parents, teachers, principals, students, and concerned community members -- agree to share responsibility for student learning. www.publiceducation.org/pdf/NCLB/Action_Briefs/SchoolParent_Compact.pdf
Schools, Parents and Communities Working Together
These middle grades resources can help parents and communities work more effectively with schools that serve young adolescents. Principals, teachers and other school leaders will find resources that can help forge stronger community partnerships. www.middleweb.com/mw/resources/MWRpublic.html
Strong Neighborhoods, Strong Schools: The Indicators Project Findings
Using an action research approach, the Indicators Project has documented the methods used in community organizing for school reform and provide measures for evaluating their success. Information documenting all phases of the Indicators Project, including the recently announced final report, can be accessed from here: www.crosscity.org/downloads/strong_neighbors_schools.pdf
Taking A Closer Look: A Guide to On-line Resources for Family Involvement from the Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP)
Family involvement, early childhood education, and after school programs are all examples of complementary learning in that they support and complement the work of schools. This publication focuses specifically on family involvement in education. Guide to On-Line Resources for Family Involvement
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