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Making and Enforcing Your Choices as Parents
 (PowerPoint Presentation)

• A to Z Teacher Stuff:  Parent Involvement  These are suggestions made by teachers as to how parents can help their children in school. http://atozteacherstuff.com/tips/Parent_Involvement/ 

• Building Family-School Partnerships that Work  Gives tips for starting and building family school relationships  http://www.ncpie.org/ 

• Comer School Development Program  Structured program for parents and teachers that creates a program within a school that focuses on child development.  http://info.med.yale.edu/comer/ 

• Consumer Privacy Guide  Protect your privacy and that of your children  http://www.consumerprivacyguide.org/ 

• Educational Resources for Parents  Lots and lots of links to other sites are available from this location.  http://www.geocities.com/dboals.geo/parents.html 

• Family Involvement in Children's Education  Successful Local Approaches   Tells about successful programs in a variety of communities.  http://www.ed.gov/pubs/FamInvolve/ 

• Get Involved in Your Child's School  This site gives parents reasons to get involved and to volunteer in schools. http://www.nea.org/helpfrom/connecting/tools/involve.html 

• Innovative Teaching--For Parents  Hotlist
  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Innovative-Teaching/message/180 

• How to Make Parent-Teacher Conferences Work for Your Child  Tips for parents from the National Education Association. http://www.nea.org/helpfrom/connecting/tools/ptconf.html 

• National Parent Information Network  Officers information on physical, intellectual and social development of their child.  http://npin.org 

• Parent Academy  This is an entire structured program that helps parents get involved with their child's school program. http://www.charm.net/~wizards/parent/

• ParentSmart  Links to sites and downloads.  Offers a rating system for some sites. http://www.parentsmart.com/ 

• ParentTech  Offers pamphlets, a CD and lots of information all free of charge. http://www.parentech.org/

• PBS Parents   http://www.pbs.org/parents

• Schwab Learning   A parent's guide to help children with learning differences.  http://www.schwablearning.org/ 

• Stay Safe Online  Works to educate the public on the importance of protecting personal computers from online intruders. http://www.staysafeonline.info/ 

• Surfing the Net With Kids  Get a free weekly newsletter with lots of information and ideas you can do with your child.  http://www.surfnetkids.com/freenewsletters.htm 

• Welcome Parents  A commercial site sponsored by Scholastic http://www.scholastic.com/parents/index.htm

Literacy

• Born to Read:  How to Raise a Reader  http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/alscresources/borntoread/bornread.htm
• Family Literacy Special Collection  Web site for parents, caregivers and kids  http://literacy.kent.edu/Midwest/FamilyLit/parent_links.html
• Early Childhood Education  Publications for Parents  http://www.ed.gov/offices/OERI/ECI/publications.html#ECD
• International Reading Association  http://www.reading.org/
• Moving America to the Head of the Class:  50 Simple Things You Can Do  http://www.ed.gov/pubs/50things/index.html
• Reading is Fundamental  Lots of things for parents and children to do  http://www.rif.org/parents/
• United States Department of Education  Learn about the No Child Left Behind Act and how to help your child.  http://www.ed.gov/parents/landing.jhtml?src=pn