Parents and Family | Cradle to Career Roadmap

The role of parents and families in the success of their children cannot be overstated. From birth on, family involvement in all aspects of children’s lives impacts the academic and social-emotional well-being of the whole child.

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San Bernardino Countywide Vision Website

San Bernardino Countywide Vision Website

The Countywide Vision is a community-based effort to create a county where residents and investors can prosper and achieve well-being. The Countywide Vision website includes the Countywide Vision statement, information on progress being made to achieve the Vision, and resources to help everyone participate in the Vision effort.
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Literacy Activities in the Home

Literacy Activities in the Home

This document provides interactive literacy activities designed for parents to use with their child at home.
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Footsteps2Brilliance

Footsteps2Brilliance

Students can engage in early literacy learning in this fun and engaging game-based platform that is accessible on-line or as an app download. These fun activities support the development of print concept, phonemic awareness, phonics, and word recognition

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San Bernardino County Reading Rally

TK through second grade students are invited to participate in our annual Reading Rally! This event will have a fun-filled time of storytelling, crafts, and special performances. Special giveaways will also happen!

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Inland Empire/Desert Region Career Education Programs, Pathways & Employers

The Centers of Excellence, in partnership with the Alliance for Education, has developed a regional GIS map that identifies the location of existing K12 CTE pathways, community college programs, and regional labor market data illustrating the alignment/misalignment of workforce needs with regional workforce preparation programs.

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Joyful Reading at School and at Home: A Storybook Reading Routine

Joyful Reading at School and at Home is a four-part webinar series designed to help PreK–1st grade educators learn a routine for storybook reading, explore ideas for creating school-to-home connections, and extend storybook reading to creative expression activities.

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How to Practice Phonics with Kids at Home

If you're the parent of a beginning reader, chances are you're hearing a lot about phonics. Here's what you need to know about how your child will learn phonics — and how you can help practice phonics at home.

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The California State Seal of Biliteracy Requirements

The California State Seal of Biliteracy (SSB) Requirements Poster may be printed on large paper and hung in classrooms, guidance counselor offices, and other areas where students and parents may see it.

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Biliteracy Pathway Recognitions

Recognitions provided to students on the Path to Biliteracy or Multiliteracy.

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Books for Young Adults

If you're looking for books for older kids and teenagers, take a look at these booklists for grades 4-12 organized by topic and representing a wide range of cultures and perspectives.

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Books for Kids

These booklists for children celebrate a wide range of cultures, languages, and experiences. They are perfect for read-alouds and bedtime stories, as well as for author studies! You can also get to know some of the featured authors in our Meet the Authors section.

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Booklists for Young Children

These multicultural booklists for young children introduce a wide range of concepts, themes, and activities and feature a diverse range of children and families. The 40+ booklists are organized by topic/theme, and many of the books are available in bilingual editions or in multiple languages.

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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy offers bilingual children’s e-books in Spanish and English. Navigating the site is simple. Use the tool bar at the top to check out the various book categories (nature, technology, health and others) or search for specific titles. It’s also the place to select the text language (either English or Spanish) and audio translation. Audio translation is available in over 30 languages!

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Financial Literacy Presentation

Financial Literacy powerpoint for 9th-12th graders.

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AVID Data One Pager

RIMS AVID senior graduation date for class of 2019.

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Senior Year FAFSA/CADAA and Cal Grant Checklist

Checklist to help seniors keep track of everything they need for financial aid.

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Student Checklist for Home Space Organization

A checklist to help students and their families set-up organized home space work areas.

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How to Use Social Stories to Teach Your Child New Skills and Expectations

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How to Help Your Child Avoid Meltdowns

The Backpack Connection Series was created by TACSEI to provide a way for teachers and parents/caregivers to work together to help young children develop social emotional skills and reduce challenging behavior. The Backpack Connection Series was created by TACSEI to provide a way for teachers and parents/caregivers to work together to help young children develop social emotional skills and reduce challenging behavior.

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How to Understand the Meaning of Your Child’s Challenging Behavior

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Positive Solutions for Families: Family Routine Guide

This Family Routine Guide can assist parents and caregivers in developing a plan to support young children who are using challenging behavior.

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Interactive Writing & Grammar

Free tools to make your students better writers. Quill provides free writing and grammar activities for elementary, middle, and high school students.

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Raise A Reader

A Parent Guide to Reading for Ages 3-5.

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Parent Strategies to help your child become a better reader

Parent strategies for improving your child's reading & writing.

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Read current events

The Learning Network is a news site that offers a daily resource to process current events driven. Get your finger on the pulse of the world, this free resource can be a reliable source of activities and ideas for current event discussions.

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Interactive E-Books for Middle & High School Students

A Common Sense Selection: Interactive ebooks and web content make reading a social experience. Build collective reading experiences to make challenging texts more approachable and get kids excited about books.

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NaNoWriMo Writing

NaNoWriMo Young Writers Program is an adaptation of the National Novel Writing Month program for kid and teen writers in classrooms (or even at home).

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ActivelyLearn.com

Texts (and videos!) for ELA, Science, and Social Studies with scaffolds and higher-order questions.

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CommonLit

Free online reading passages.

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Educational Theatre Association

The International Thespian Society’s Student Leadership Program is a pathway to leadership at whatever level you choose — troupe, chapter, or international. Participation will give you knowledge you’ll use the rest of your life, whatever career path you choose. Workshops are led by the International Thespian Officers (ITOs).

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Inland Regional Center

Inland Regional Center is dedicated to improving the quality of life for people with Developmental Disabilities.

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Child Care Locations in San Bernardino County

GIS Map for San Bernardino County Child Care Locations and options by districts.

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Family Guide for Universal Prekindergarten

High quality programs create early learning experiences, environments, and relationships that support children's growth and development.

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How to Give Clear Directions

This article is part of the Backpack Connection Series to promote home and school connection. For this article, the focus is on helping parents give clear directions to their children in order to support positive behavior in the home.

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Mindfulness Practices for Families

This parenting resource from Zero to 3 provides parents and families with simple mindfulness activities to help both parents and children manage big emotions and stay calm and connected.

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Child Care Resource Center

Each month, they provide quality, support, development, and education to almost 50,000 children, families in our 22,500-square-mile service area. They remain a unique and distinctive leader in the child care industry. Their current programs include resource libraries, home visiting, workforce development, family engagement, financial care assistance, Head Start preschool, Early Head Start, Early Head Start – Childcare partnership, Motherhood and so much more.

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Five Family Reading Goals Teachers Recommend

Creating book goals turns reading into a fun activity that your kids will look forward to in their free time. These are five tangible family reading goals teachers hope you make.

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Welcoming Wonder (And Endless Questions!) With Kids

Asking questions is an important part of learning.