Publications on Family Involvement, Nutrition, and 4K

Families-Schools-Communities Partnerships

• Organizing a Successful Family Center in Your School offers school staff and parents strategies and ideas for establishing family centers. It also describes how family centers can strengthen family involvement in schools.
• The Action Team offers guidance and ideas to help schools establish and continue Partnership Action Teams of parents, teachers, other school staff, and community members.
• A Parent’s Guide to Standards and Assessment explains how assessment, academic standards, and curriculum affect your child's learning. This brief guide gives parents an overview of Wisconsin's student assessment system and ideas for how they can help their child do well.
• Connecting Families to the Classroom describes hands-on tools for schools to connect parents to children’s learning in three areas: classroom management, youth service-learning, and Standards of the Heart.
• Developing Grade-Level Brochures for Parents helps schools design easy-to-understand brochures that tell parents what their child is learning by subject and grade level. Templates are provided.
• Involving Parents in No Child Left Behind: Toolkit for Schools details parent notification and involvement requirements in all Title programs and offers schools useful ideas for generating parent and community support.
• New Teacher Welcome Packet gets beginning (and veteran) teachers off to a good start with practical tips, sample letters, and effective practices to create warm parent-teacher relationships around children’s learning.
• School Volunteer Guide helps schools recruit, use, and retain volunteers for many school programs, including youth service-learning.

Nutrition

• What’s Right for Kids — Improving the School Nutrition Environment highlights the issues surrounding children’s nutrition and fitness and offers Wisconsin schools valuable resources to create a climate of healthy nutrition for students, staff, and families.
• What’s Right for Kids poster
  A matching poster is available to complement the What’s Right for Kids publication.

Four-year-old Kindergarten

Discover the lessons Wisconsin communities have learned about starting and creating public awareness for the community approach to serving four-year-old children in:

• Community Approaches to Serving Four-Year-Old Children in Wisconsin, and
• Creating a Community Approach to Serving Four-Year-Old Children in Wisconsin:
  Public Awareness Packet.

 

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Last updated on 2/25/2008 9:07:58 AM