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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.
This blog post provides the general public with access to virtual museum collections of African American history, heritage, and culture.
This toolkit provides community members and school staff with tools and tactics to help create an impact on students and help to improve attendance .
National Alliance for Secondary Education and Transition (NASET) provides background on youth development and leadership along with recommendations for communities, schools, and families in providing youth development and support.
This tip sheet suggests ways providers can assist young people to strengthen their existing supports and/or to connect them with other supports.
California Department of Education (CDE) identifies practices, strategies, and activities that have a positive effect in encouraging students to attend school regularly.
This guide supports health care providers, systems, and communities seeking to prevent substance misuse among young adults. It describes relevant research findings, examines emerging and best practices, identifies knowledge gaps and implementation challenges, and offers useful resources.
This article helps working parents of children with special needs identity what they should look for in a company. It also helps employers see how they can better serve their employees.
This toolkit helps after-school advocates form partnerships benefitting the business community, after-school programs, parents, and the youth who need these programs.
This list describes 21st Century skills, how they help students, and their importance for career success.
This article presents the most recent research concerning the impact of academic-related stress, including discussion of the impact on students’ learning capacity and academic performance, mental health problems, such as depression and anxiety, sleep disturbances and substance use.
This article details how states and the federal government fund after-school and summer programs.
This article describes how after-school and community-based programs are funded and supported legislatively.
This position statement informs the general public, the K-12 community, and educators about the importance of teaching world religions in the social studies curriculum in ways that are constitutionally and academically sound.
This article identifies six critical elements that impact several important aspects of schooling.
This fact sheet guides on how parents can help youth build a foundation for a successful transition to adult life outside of foster care. It also describes the challenges youth face, the effects of adolescent brain changes, and Federal laws and programs.
This report provides additional information supporting the claim that learning a new language opens career paths and increases employment opportunities for students.
This article describes how a Texas school district offers special-needs students opportunities to receive hands-on training that will allow them to flourish in the real world through work-based learning programs at various schools across the district.
This brief defines employability skills overall with a focus on social and emotional competencies and research on why they are essential. It also discusses how social and emotional learning programs and practices can support the development of these skills and how after-school and expanded learning settings are an ideal place for this to happen.
The report argues for the importance of childcare for the business future of the United States.
This report provides teachers with strategies to implement self-management skills in the classroom. The report also provides supporting research that self-management leads to better life outcomes (e.g., school completion, financial stability, life satisfaction).
This news article provides background on the importance of teaching social studies to young children for their development as critical thinkers and communicators who know how to take meaningful action.
This article discusses how teachers and students in one district used goal setting to improve student achievement. The article also outlines recommendations for successful academic goal implementation.
This article highlights the importance of studying history for understanding the present and preparing for the future.
This article examines examples of history taught through thinking abilities and processes.
This paper provides data for investing in impactful social and emotional learning programs for all children and recommendations for future research.
This article showing the link between chronic school absenteeism and poor long-term health outcomes can help pediatricians and their colleagues promote school attendance through interactions with patients and parents and government advocacy.
This resource details laws, policies, and regulations addressing bullying in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and U.S. territories.
This article has eight indoor exercise activities for parents with younger children.
This guide has recommendations for parents on how to find and select after-school activities by grade level (K-8).
This page offers history teaching/learning recommendations for parents and caregivers homeschooling adolescents due to COVID-19, including activities, conversation-starters, videos, and readings.
This article gives parents basic guidelines to follow in assisting their child in making decisions.
This article provides parents resources and recommendations for supporting their child and themselves during COVID-19.
This guide provides parents advice and answers to common questions about high school career and technical education.
This Department of Defense program provides students with 25 hours of hands-on STEM activities at military bases nationwide.
This toolkit includes customizable resources and strategies for schools, community organizations, businesses, and faith leaders to improve school attendance.
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.
