Our seasonal Parent Workshop Series provide a unique opportunity for enhanced community, connection, and support. Parents are invited to attend sessions that focus on life skills and mindfulness, supporting academic growth, and preparing for transitions. These sessions are facilitated by content specialists and mental health professionals.
SEL
The coronavirus pandemic is stressful for everyone, including parents and children. Fear and anxiety about a disease, especially one that is unknown, can be overwhelming and cause strong emotions in adults and children. How you cope with the stress and anxiety, however, can make you, your child, your family, and your community stronger. This workshop offers tips for recognizing anxiety across age groups and strategies for dealing with it.
Helps families recognize signs and symptoms of bullying; understand the steps they can take to ensure their children are not involved in bullying –either as perpetrators, targets, or bystanders; and identify ways to support their children if they are involved.
Nurturing a Growth Mindset and Perseverance
In this era of high-stakes testing and increased academic pressures in schools, correct answers are too often valued as the measure of success over the learning journey. As a result, students may become risk-averse, where the learning process is overshadowed by fear of making mistakes. This session explores strategies to help parents foster a growth mindset with their child, where risk-taking, mistakes, challenges, and persistence are not only valued but expected.
Incorporating the IEP at Home: Supporting Your Child with Special Needs at Home
Designed to help you set realistic goals for what you can do at home to support your child’s IEP. We take into consideration that you are not your child’s usual teacher, and your child is not used to you being their teacher. This workshop offers instructional strategies that parents can use to help children with special needs at home; recommend how parents can structure the day for children with special needs; and, provide parents with external resources that will support their child’s learning needs.
The Emotional Mastery Toolbox – Kids Thrive Here
Emotional Mastery Toolbox (EMT) provides lifelong practical strategies and resources to help families nurture their children’s emotional development as they take control of their feelings and their minds. The program teaches the parent or caregiver how to use various techniques with their child and to create an environment where they can speak as a family about any challenges that arise. Emotional mastery is one of the most beneficial outcomes for both children and adults. EMT starts at the very beginning with foundational self-awareness skills, such as how to identify feelings, followed by strategies to focus the mind and alleviate tension from the body, and finishes with ways to improve self-esteem and confidence. Each concept builds on the next and provides real-life, easy-to-implement activities families can use daily as challenges arise.
Transition Back to In-Person School (K-8)
Between virtual, hybrid, and in-person learning due to the recent world pandemic, it is so wonderful that our children are back to in-person learning with their peers and teachers. This presentation will identify for the participants strategies to best support their child as they transition back to the in-person space.
Building Confidence (3-8)
A large part of learning is having the confidence to participate, interact with peers, and dare to take risks when learning. Within this participation, the participants will learn of some strategies to support your child with building their confidence in order to support their growth and learning.
A large part of learning is having the confidence to participate, interact with peers, and dare to take risks when learning. Within this participation, the participants will learn of some strategies to support your child with building their confidence in order to support their growth and learning.
Building Fun and Strong Social Relationships
Gain Relationship Building Strategies for In-Person and Digitally!
Parents Will Receive:
Language and Strategies to build strong and positive relationships for children
Building positive relationships within a digital world–safely
Strong Relationships
In this session, you will learn how to encourage positive social interactions– foster strong social skills, embrace differences, and build empathy.
Early Childhood
How to Support Your Child’s Learning at Home
In this session, you will learn different skills to help support your child in reading. We will explore fun activities that will help boost your child’s confidence and desire to read. Join our workshop to learn some fun and simple ways to build a strong foundation and enthusiasm for reading for your child.
How to Help Your Child with Phonemic Awareness
Phonemic awareness is vital for anyone learning to read. Learn all about phonemes and how to practice the seven skills of phonemic awareness through fun, interactive activities to prepare your child for reading.
How to Help Your Child with Phonemic Awareness Part 2
Practice the seven skills of phonemic awareness through fun, interactive activities to prepare your child for reading.
Social Studies Science
How Discovery Education Supports Your Child With Social Studies and Science
The use of instructional technology has opened so many doors for our students’ learning. Through the use of Discovery Education’s online platforms, our students are able to really engage in their learning through differentiated digital curricula. This presentation will support you with understanding how to navigate the platform.
Cross Curricular
Inquiry Based Learning and How it Promotes Deeper Learning
Inquiry-based learning supports our students with their engagement, curiosity, and promotes a deeper level of understanding. Students are encouraged to explore by asking questions and identifying solutions based on what they analyzed in class. This presentation will support your student with understanding what inquiry-based learning is and how it fosters a deeper understanding of their subjects.
Math
Math: Dreambox
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Math: Eureka
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