Parents
Helping Your Child Do Well in School
Strategies for staying involved in your child's academic success - at home and at school.
Four Tips To Help Your Child Succeed at School
Students earn higher grades, have better attendance, are more motivated when their families are involved in their education.
Raising Ready Readers
A guide for parents and caregivers with some tips to encourage children to want to read - and keep on reading!
Working Together for Student Success
How families and educators can work together to help students transition to Common Core.
Healthy Habits
Raise Your Hand for Bedtime
Christine Koh, a music and brain scientist, writer, and mom, shares ways to minimize bedtime struggles and maximize your children's chances of success.
Homework Success
Homework Spaces for Kids: Essential, Easy
Mom of three Jennifer McFadden shares tips for creating kid-approved homework stations - no remodeling required.
Parents' Role in Bullying and Intervention
Dr. Dorothea Ross offers advice for parents on how to establish behavior patterns at home that will encourage open communication between parent and child and ensure positive interactions between children and their peers.
Raise Your Hand for a Healthy Breakfast
Rachel Matthews is a food blogger, photographer, wife, and mom of two. In The Importance of Breakfast, she's got some nourishing, easy-to-manage ideas for parents who have to plan the most important meal of the day on the fly.Parent Guide
Hey Mom, I Want To Be An Engineer!
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A two-page guide to helping your child become technologically literate, developed through a joint effort between NEA and the National Parent Teacher Association (PTA).
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NEW! The Healthy Steps for Healthy Lives Family Guide is FREE resource to help families with children grade K-6 live healthier lifestyles. Available in English and Spanish, it's a companion piece to the Healthy Steps for Healthy Lives Teacher Kits.
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Parent Guides: Practical Information Parents Can Use
- Developed through a joint effort between NEA and National Parent Teacher Association (PTA), our two-page parent guides provide parents and caregivers with fundamental tools to encourage their children's success in school.
- The Parents’ Guides to Student Success were developed by teachers, parents, and education experts in response to the Common Core State Standards. Created for grades K-8 high school English language arts/literacy and mathematics the guides provide clear, consistent expectations for what students should be learning at each grade to be prepared for college and career.
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