The Broward County School District has a designated website for parents call PARENT INVOLVEMENT. This is great website for parents within the Broward County school district to use as a quick condense reference guide to get and stay info with what's going on in this school district. This website also provides an abundance of valuable resources ranging from ways for parent to get involve in their child's schooling, school policies, academic info, and supportive services to things as Teen Parent Program, health education, and preventive programs from substance abuse, etc.
An iPhone app that allows teachers to call more parents, more often. With Dash, teachers can log student performance and generate a daily speed dial of parent numbers. At the end of each conversation, Dash instantly creates a call log and analytics that inform future parent contact and ensure no student is overlooked. Parent engagement and data that teachers need to fast-track student success are now only a click away.
Parent Benefits Positive parent-school communications benefit parents. The manner in which schools communicate and interact with parents affects the extent and quality of parents' home involvement with their children's learning. For example, schools that communicate bad news about student performance more often than recognizing students' excellence will discourage parent involvement by making parents feel they cannot effectively help their children.
OCPS website offers parents a wealth of information. From lunch menus to after care and online payments. It's a one stop shop for parents that are able to the advantage of online services.
Parent and student resources, information on the new FSA assessments, Student Code of Conduct, provides links to School Pay, ProgressBook, and many more!
LearnZillion is a learning platform that combines video lessons, assessments, and progress reporting. Each lesson highlights a Common Core standard, starting with math in grades 3-9.
FREE for Teachers to: Plan Common Core lessons; Assign lessons, practice, and quizzes; and Engage parents in your student's learning
FREE for Parents to: Find out what your child needs to know, Assign lessons and quizzes, and Track your child's progress
Nanoogo is an online e-portfolio. On this site students can create and share their ideas . This is a digital canvas that the students can share with classmates and parents. Parents can comment on students work. The site is currently free. It is recommended to sign on soon because they are considering charging a fee.
The Scholastic website @ http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/home.jsp is a wonderful website designed for students, parents, and teachers. This website contains reading lesson plans created for student's prekindergarten through twelfth grade. This website a contains numerous resources including reading pintables that could be used in a classroom. I would highly recommend this website for students, parents and teachers.
Great resource for teachers, parents, and students. It's a search database that categorizes math topic by grade level and it explains concepts in plain step by step terms. This type of website would be awesome for parents that are not math savvy to use to brush up on their math skills or to relearn math concepts while trying to help their children.Great for teachers to refer to as a secondary way to explain a concept beyond their knowledge and the textbook being used.
Matho is a great website and also a phone app for both iphone and android for parent to have available for their children. Kids love to play online games and this type of website allows parents to provide their children with a fun interactive game while enhancing their math skills. Also the games are timed so this can further challenge kids to want to compete in trying to get the highest score in the shortest amount of time.
This link provides parents with students enrolled in Manatee County schools with numerous resources including school choice forms, information about before and after school care, volunteering information, and information on SAC and SIP.
This pdf file gives parents all the information about the different types of schools offered in Orange County. It discusses programs, curriculum, different types of services offered, a break down of student achievement, different assessments, health, volunteer services, and etc. It's a great guide!
The Osceola School District's OASIS School Volunteer Program provides the opportunity for parents, businesses, and the community to enrich the education of students. OASIS volunteers extend teachers' and staffs' professional skills and assist in the effort to meet the unique needs of each and every student
Some parents and teachers using media on the class may not be familiar with ESRB ratings. This site helps to clarify media content issues. The site also helps to inform parents. A nice add on to any educator website link list. I was able to get them to send me a set of bookmarks for my library a couple of years ago. :)
Most of the time, kids know more than their parents about the internet. It's important to protect our kids from the dangers that lie within internet usage. Great advice I will give to my parents at Technology Parent Night!