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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EEC Environmental Learning Resources

The Environmental Education Collaborative (EEC), with the help of educational and community partners, created this digital environmental resource for Riverside and San Bernardino Counties - Environmental Learning Resources Guide. This guide was developed to help educators and community members find sites and programs about natural resources and sustainability. This guide provides information on programs for all ages from early childhood through adult, as well as information on professional training opportunities.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. Be sure to explore #metkids in the dropdown menu!

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Riverside Art Museum

The Riverside Art Museum strives to integrate art into the lives of people in a way that engages, inspires, and builds community by presenting thought-provoking exhibits and providing quality art classes that instill a lifelong love of the arts.

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National Gallery of Art

Learn about art, and learn through art—at any age. Look, imagine, discuss, write, and make. Discover a variety of multi-generational programs and resources that engage children and adults in active exploration of art.

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Google Arts and Culture

An amazing free interactive Art website! So much to explore, play and investigate!

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Create California

Create CA advocates for high quality arts education for all students by providing policy expertise and by mobilizing a statewide network of advocates and allied partners.

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SIM Science and Engineering Fair (SIMSEF)

The SIM Science and Engineering Fair (SIMSEF) is an annual event that brings together students, teachers, and science experts from around the county. Science fairs are important to our schools and students. It helps to develop in students an awareness of the importance of science in their everyday lives, help cultivate students' interest in science, support students' acquisition of scientific knowledge and research skills, extend and reinforce the Science Content Standards for California Public Schools, recognize and reward outstanding achievement in science, and to motivate students to undertake and complete scientific inquiries in their special areas of interest.

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Arts Connection: The Arts Council of San Bernardino County

The Arts are the Seeds of Innovation. Arts Connection is dedicated to stimulating creative and economic vitality and enriching lives throughout the communities we serve by providing support, promotion, education, and advocacy for the arts.

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The Noun Project

Noun Project is building a global visual language that unites us — a language that allows quick and easy communication no matter who you are or where you are. The Most Comprehensive Icon Collection in the World. Our community of designers from 120+ countries is building the most diverse and extensive collection of iconography ever created. Icons are some of the most universal communication tools available, crossing language and cultural boundaries.

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National Resource Center For Asian Languages

National Resource Center for Asian Languages (NRCAL) was established in 2014 to improve the nation’s capacity for the teaching and learning of Asian languages including Vietnamese, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Khmer. NRCAL is 1 of 16 language resource centers funded by the U.S. Department of Education.

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Pre-Referral Flowchart - Multilingual Learner for Initial Special Education Assessment

Team Considerations for Use Prior To Referral of A Multilingual Learner For Initial Special Education Assessment. This resource was created by Imperial County Office of Education to improve outcomes for English learners with disabilities.

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History Day

History Day is an interdisciplinary program that encourages students to research and prepare papers, exhibits, performances, documentary presentations, websites, poster displays, and podcasts on an annual historical theme. Students increase their knowledge of history through classroom activities within the content and process of social studies and language arts curriculum.

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Spelling Bee

The Spelling Bee is an annual contest held amongst the winners of the thirty-three school districts in San Bernardino County where K-8th grade students are challenged to spell words from a given list, as well as more challenging words that require students to have an in-depth knowledge of word morphology. San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools promotes and encourages students to improve their spelling, expand their vocabularies and learn correct English usage that will positively affect communication, reading, and writing skills for the rest of their lives.

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International Children's Digital Library

This digital library hosts a collection of books from around the world. Ultimately, this organization hopes to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children's literature available from the world community.

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Starting Smarter

The Starting Smarter website includes information on student score reports, sample test questions, parent-teacher conferences, and other no-cost resources in English and Spanish.

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Statewide System of Support-Community Engagement Initiative

The Community Engagement Initiative is a five-year effort intended to strengthen the System of Support by building the capacity of school districts to authentically engage one another. This includes identifying effective models of community engagement, developing metrics to evaluate those models, having difficult conversations, building trusting relationships and participating the Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) development process.

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Computer Science at SBCSS

Access information and tools about computer science that is available here in San Bernardino County.

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Escaping the Disability Trap

This article looks at the best ways to prepare special needs students for the workforce.

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Student Achievement and What it May Mean for Educators

This article describes the expected learning losses from the COVID-19 shortened COVID-19 school year.

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What Do Test Scores Really Mean for the Economy?

This article argues that lower reading and math test scores will impact the future U.S. economy.

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How Children's Social Competence Impacts Their Well-Being in Adulthood

This 20-year study tracked a group of kindergarten students who were evaluated on social capabilities (e.g., listening to other, sharing materials). Researchers followed these children for the next two decades, examining whether these assessments could predict how these same children would fare by early adulthood.

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Virtual Healthy School

The Virtual Health School is an online, interactive tool that provides innovative learning experiences to help make schools healthier.

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OECD Future of Education and Skills 2030 - Student Agency

As part of the Future of Education and Skills 2030, this report provides background on how education systems can help develop students agency.

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The Essential Components of Physical Education

This guidance document reviews what SHAPE America has identified as the “essential components” of physical education.

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Ages & Stages: Making Choices

This article discusses how the support and guidance from teachers and parents can help young children in making choices.

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NJSACC's Virtual Afterschool Resource Guide

This virtual after-school resource guide provides parents, educators, and community members with a collection of activities and resources during COVID-19 and beyond.

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What US Schools Can Learn From Finland’s Approach to Education

This report lists four reforms any U.S. state or school can implement to make sustainable improvements within the current educational system.

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Tips for Communities to Help Schools Succeed

The document details how community groups and individuals can get involved in schools to help students succeed.

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History at Home: Exploring African American Heritage, Stories, and Culture Through Online Museum Collection

This blog post provides the general public with access to virtual museum collections of African American history, heritage, and culture.

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Communities Supporting Youth Attendance Toolkit

This toolkit provides community members and school staff with tools and tactics to help create an impact on students and help to improve attendance .