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The following links are in English

  • Toddler Cozy Daycare Bedding
    Premium quality bedding for daycare, preschool and home child care environment. Cot and sleep mat covers, toddler blankets, pillows and nap sets. Wholesale pricing direct to all daycare providers and free shipping always.

  • How to Write a Newsletter for Your Daycare
    Here is how to create a newsletter that will inform and involve parents.

  • A Day In The Life...A Keepsake Journal for Children in Daycare
    This keepsake journal records all the events of the day for children in daycare. Parents can feel as though they have shared in the day with their child. A valuable resource to parents for dr's visits, evening meal planning and tracking the growth and development of their child. Also a great marketing tool for Childcare Providers looking for creative ways to set their business apart from others.

  • A Parent’s Guide to the National Standards for Arts Education
    As a concerned parent, do these six things to reform arts education in your child's school.

  • All Parents Engaged in Learning
    APEL Education Consultancy LLC is dedicated to promoting parents as their child's first and most important teacher. It focuses on providing children who have school related learning difficulties and their parents with the skills, information and support they need to pursue and secure all of their educational opportunitites.

  • Alliance for Parental Involvement in Education
    The Alliance for Parental Involvement in Education is a nonprofit organization which assists and encourages parental involvement in education, wherever that education takes place: in public school, in private school, or at home. AllPIE offers a newsletter (Options in Learning), annual conferences and retreats, a book catalog, workshops, lending library and more. To find out about how to become a member of AllPIE, see our Membership Information

  • Asian American Parents Association
    AAPA addresses concerns facing our children's K-12 education, provides opportunities for the exchange of ideas on issues related to education, and organizes activities that support student development.

  • Caught in the Middle
    Caught in the Middle is a 28-minute video project and comprehensive web site that encourages parents to stay involved in their children's lives during the often-tumultuous middle school years.

  • Center for Parent Involvement in Education
    Center for Parent Involvement in Education mission is to improve the academic achievement and quality of education for African American children and other children from San Diego's inner city community.

  • Colorado Parent Information and Resource Center
    Colorado Parent Information and Resource Center was created to help families and schools work better together to ensure children succeed in school. CPIRC is a network of statewide organizations and six community agencies representing urban and rural communities working together to: provide parents with information and resources to support them in their efforts to raise healthy, happy and successful children; increase parent participation in schools by helping parents develop their leadership skills and preparing educators for parent involvement in their classrooms; and create a statewide, long-term plan for financing parent involvement and support programs.

  • Commonwealth Institute for Parent Leadership
    The Commonwealth Institute for Parent Leadership, sponsored by the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, brings together parents and others, giving them training, information, and experiences to enable them to work with teachers and other parents to raise student achievement in their home communities.

  • Companionize It
    Our website will help you make positive lifestyle changes, while helping you organize your family life. Our mission is to provide you with all the tools needed to live a more balanced and proactive lifestyle. Home of the Babysitter Companion

  • Department of Education/Family Involvement Partnership for Learning
    To increase opportunities for families to be more involved in their children's learning at school and at home and to use family - school - community partnerships to strengthen schools and improve student achievement.

  • Effective Parenting Educational Resources
    Information on helping children study and get through school.

  • Families in Schools
    Families in Schools (FIS) creates strong school, family and community partnerships to help children become educated, productive and healthy members of their communities.

  • Family Involvement in Education
    A good source of information about getting parents involved with their children's education.

  • Helping Your Child Succeed in School
    This book is about what we can do in our own homes, right now, that will help our children go to school wanting to learn.

  • Home is a learning center, too - Some tips for parents
    Tips to create a nurturing environment.

  • Improving Your Child's Learning Ability
    This page provides information related to assisting parents in helping their children and teenagers to improve their learning and study skills. Techniques on how to develop motivation, attention, comprehension, organization and creativity are provided. Information and materials to bring basic skills in reading, math and written language up to or above grade level are also available.

  • Institute for Humanistic Education and Parenting
    The Institute for Humanistic Education and Parenting has helped families raise children with respect, genuine communication, concern for emotional development, mutual accountability rather than punishment, and the possibility of lifelong friendship between parent and child.

  • National Parenting Education Network
    The purpose of the National Parenting Education Network is to advance the field of parenting education.

  • National Standards for Parent/Family Involvement Programs
    The overall importance of parent and family involvement, as the foundation for all other education reforms, warrants the same consideration and attention as other areas for which national standards are being developed. Therefore, the establishment of standards to guide parent involvement programs and evaluate their quality and effectiveness is crucial.

  • Parent Academy
    Parental Education program for parents involvement in their children's education.

  • Parent and Family Involvement
    Evidence shows a strong connection between parent and family involvement in schools and children's academic achievement, attendance, attitude, and continued education (Henderson & Berla, 1994; Hickman, 1996). But families may not become involved if they do not feel that the school climate--the social and educational atmosphere of a school--is one that makes families feel welcomed, respected, trusted, heard, and needed.

  • Parent Institute
    The mission of The Parent Institute is to encourage parent involvement in the education of their children. The Parent Institute publishes a variety of materials including newsletters, booklets, brochures, and videos.

  • ParentPartners
    Parent Partners seeks to empower parents to become fully informed and active members of the educational planning team for their child.

  • Parents Engaged in Educational Reform (PEER)
    Parents Engaged in Education Reform (PEER) is a national technical assistance project funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs. PEER’s purpose is to increase the participation of parents of children with disabilities and their organizations in school reform efforts.

  • Parents for Education
    Parents for Education (PARED) - initiative of parents and educators to operate schools and other educational projects which assist parents in their task as the primary educators of their children.

  • Parents United for Responsible Education
    Parents United for Responsible Education exists to build support for and enhance the quality of public education in the city of Chicago by informing parents about educational issues, bringing the views of parents into the decision-making process, and acting as an advocate for parents in their relationships with the school administration.

  • Parlant Tech
    Parlant Technology/ParentLink: the leader in school-to-home communication systems that increase parental involvement.

  • Premier: A Franklin Covey Company School Agendas
    Our motto is: "Student Achievement Through School Effectiveness." Our school agendas teach organizational, goal-setting, and time management skills to children of all ages. The level of our agendas range from Kindergarten to college, and incorporate Dr. Steven Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. This product espouses character education!

  • Preschool Home Activities for Parents and Young Children
    Educational activities that parents and their young children can do together.Counting, pre-reading, language, science, and physical skills are developed as parents play with their preschool children. Use of ordinary household items make these activities inexpensive, easy and fun.

  • Project Appleseed
    The National Campaign for Public School Improvement, a civic institution for the 21st century.

  • Red Ribbon Training Workshop
    The site features an RRC Online Red Ribbon Training Workshop for parent, student and teacher School Site Prevention Coordinators responsible for coordinating school based prevention awareness campaign including the Red Ribbon Celebration at their school or in their community.

  • South Carolina Parents Involved in Education
    SC PIE is a grassroots organization committed to excellence in the public schools of South Carolina through the meaningful involvement of parents in children’s education.

  • Steps to Design and Conduct School-Family-Community Partnerships
    By the National Network of Partnership Schools. These are selected resources from offline publications by Joyce L. Epstein, Director, Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships. Includes sample forms for planning and evaluating partnership activities, suggestions for budgets and funding for the work of partnership programs, and a guide for district-level facilitators of school-family-community partnerships

  • Sunrise Estates Parent Teacher Organization
    Sunrise Estates Parent Teacher Organization promotes quality educational programs for children in Sunrise Estates Elementary through the participation and cooperation of parents and teachers of Sunrise Estates Elementary.

  • Teachers' Best Ideas for Involving Parents
    Research studies confirm that parent involvement improves student achievement, but many times parents aren't sure how to play a more active role in their child's education. Since teachers are the crucial link in the partnership between school and parents, National PTA invited teachers across the country to submit their "best ideas" for involving parents and families-whether it's at home, in school, or in the community.

  • The National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education (NCPIE)
    Effective parent/family involvement programs match the needs of school and community. NCPIE works to build comprehensive family-school partnerships that encompass a wide variety of approaches.

  • The National Parent Information Network (NPIN)
    The mission of NPIN is to provide access to research-based information about the process of parenting, and about family involvement in education. We believe that well-informed families are likely to make good decisions about raising and educating their children.

The following links are in Dutch

  • Parentslikeus.org
    How can parents provide a home environment most conducive to their children's success in school? What programs are schools offering for parents? How are parents involved in improving their children's schools?

The following links are in English

  • Education Coffeehouse
    A trusted source of information on the web since 1999, The Education Coffeehouse is a leader in providing straight talk for parents about their important role in their child's learning, effective classroom management strategies for educators, and real answers for students concerned about education issues.


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