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Education Tips for Parents

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.

Idea of the Day/Parent Tip of the Day

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

College Planning
  • Helpful hints for the transition to college
  • How to create a college-going culture for your child
  • 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

Community Service
  • Promoting volunteerism at home

 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
  • Supporting healthy habits at home
  • Staying healthy during cold and flu season
  • Tips for helping your child deal with peer pressure

 Earth Day Ideas
  • 8 tips for celebrating Earth Day

 Internet Use and Research
  • Encouraging girls to code 
  • Parental Control Resource Guide
  • Parental Control video
  • Safe surfing tips for the Internet
  • Steps in the research process

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

 Math and Science
  • Boost math skills for your elementary school student with at-home fun
  • Science activities to keep inquiring minds curious
  • Science and Math careers
  • Science Fair tips

Parental Involvement
  • Great ways to help your child succeed
  • How to motivate your child

 School Involvement
  • 10 Parent resolutions for the new school year
  • 10 Things you can do to Be There for your child
  • Why involved parents are critical to student success
  • You don't have to be PTA president to be involved at your child's school

 Special Education
  • Grandparents raising children with special needs 
  • Support at home for your child with ADHD/ADD 
  • Strategies to help relieve stress for families of children with special needs 
  • Tips for a productive IEP meeting with your child's special education team 

 Social Studies and Civics
  • 14 Tips for promoting civic responsibility
  • Enhancing economic and financial education at home

 Testing
  • Help your child manage test anxiety 
  • Tips for test time for parents and students

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
  • Using the web for postsecondary planning
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