Empowering Kids for School Success
This podcast explains how parents can get kids ready for the new school year with confidence. Hear why it’s important for parents and kids to reflect on the previous year and learn ways to help kids manage challenges in the classroom.
Author: Julian Saavedra
Publication Date: August 2024
Publisher: Understood for All
Encircle Families
Collaboration between families and professionals results in the best possible outcomes for children with disabilities. Encircle Families is an Arizona nonprofit organization that provides free training and information to parents to help them understand their rights, roles, and responsibilities in their child’s health care and education. Training for pre-service and in-service professionals in education is available to improve collaboration between families and providers and achieve better results for children.
Publication Date: 2025
Publisher: Encircle Families
Family Digital Safety Toolkit
In today’s fast-paced digital world, it can feel overwhelming to keep up with what your kids are doing on phones, tablets, apps, and games. This toolkit will help you feel more confident and connected as you guide your child’s digital life. It includes a step-by-step Digital Safety Checklist to protect your child online and guidance for setting up privacy, content, and parental controls.
Author: Ann-Louise Lockhart
Publication Date: June 2025
Publisher: American Society for the Positive Care of Children
Help Your Child Become a Great Reader
This article details things a parent can do to help your child become a great reader. Information is included for activities that support reading and understanding the importance of being part of the team of child, parent, and teacher.
Publisher: UD Cooperative Extension, University of Delaware
Helping Your Child Become A Self-Regulated Reader
Self-regulated reading is a process by which students manage their reading and comprehension. This guide helps parents assist students in becoming self-regulated readers through awareness and regulation of their thoughts, knowledge, and actions to read and understand complex texts.
Publication Date: July 2021
Publisher: The University of Texas at Austin/The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk
Helping Your Kid With. . .Comprehending Texts Independently
This video shares a straightforward approach to improving independent text comprehension for students in grade 3 and beyond.
Author: Phil Capin
Publication Date: July 2020
Publisher: The University of Texas at Austin/The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk
Helping Your Kid With. . .Early Language and Literacy
Reading with your child supports the importance of learning language and literacy. This video provides specific examples—from children’s books—and 10 simple strategies for interacting with your child while reading books.
Author: Amory Cable
Publication Date: July 2020
Publisher: The University of Texas at Austin/The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk
Helping Your Kid With. . .Learning (and Loving) the Language of Math
The earliest learning of math comes through language—as kids learn words such as more, difference, square, or three. This video shares how to help your kid with early math learning through the use of math storybooks.
Author: Suzanne Forsyth
Publication Date: July 2020
Publisher: The University of Texas at Austin/The Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk
How Can I Help My Child Do Well in School?
This video explores tips on how to create good habits, discover the joy of learning, and find extra academic support for your child when they need it.
Publication Date: June 2024
Publisher: Child Mind Institute
How Do Educators Assess Student Literacy?
Gathering data through assessments allows educators to identify students at risk for literacy difficulties and adjust their instruction to best fit the needs of each student in their classroom. This flowchart provides caregivers an overview of the different types of assessments that educators use.
Publication Date: September 2024
Publisher: Iowa Reading Research Center
How Parents Can Help Their Kids Be Successful in School
This article includes tips that parents can use to help their children be successful in school and a daily checklist to help parents keep the support going for their children’s learning every day.
Publisher: UD Cooperative Extension, University of Delaware
How to Help Your Child Get Motivated in School
Through this article and video, parents can learn why some children have trouble getting motivated and identify strategies to help their children try harder in school and work up to their potential.
Author: Danielle Cohen
Publication Date: Updated June 2025
Publisher: Child Mind Institute
Learning About Algebra at Home: Evidence-Based Tips for Parents and Caregivers
This three-page tip sheet highlights evidence-based practices from classroom settings that could help parents or caregivers help youth solve algebra problems at home. The example activities are most appropriate for youth who are already familiar with solving linear equations, most often in grades 7–9.
Publication Date: 2021
Publisher: What Works Clearinghouse, U.S. Department of Education
Learning About Fractions at Home: Evidence-Based Tips for Parents and Caregivers
This set of tips highlights evidence-based practices from classroom settings that could help parents or caregivers support their children’s understanding of fractions at home. These tips are appropriate for children in grades K–5.
Publication Date: 2021
Publisher: What Works Clearinghouse, U.S. Department of Education
Making The Best of The School Year
This article provides ways parents can help their children get the most from school by choosing appropriate expectations, expressing the value of education, playing critical thinking games, and engaging in activities to support improvement.
Author: Pat Tanner Nelson
Publisher: UD Cooperative Extension, University of Delaware
Supporting Children through School Transitions
This video offers tips for making school transitions a little smoother. Whether your child is struggling to get out the door in the morning, experiencing anxiety in the classroom or melting down when they get home, hear advice to ease the back-to-school transition.
Author: Deborah Farmer-Kris
Publication Date: September 2022
Publisher: The Center for Family Engagement, National PTA
Supporting Students with Disabilities at School and Home: A Guide for Teachers to Support Families and Students
This guide highlights five key practices for teachers and families to support all students, including students with disabilities, at school and home. For each practice, the guide provides tips for teachers to support students with disabilities during instruction; tips for families that educators can share to support or enhance learning at home; and free-access resources that include strategies shown to be effective by research.
Authors: Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, National Center on Intensive
Intervention, and National Integrated Multi-Tiered Systems of Support Research Network
Publication Date: May 2020
Publisher: University of Oregon
Tools to Help Prepare You and Your Child for the New School Year
This video shares brief information on how parents and caregivers can help their children, and themselves, navigate going to back to school prepared to adjust to the new schedules, learning expectations, and social routines.
Publication Date: July 2025
Publisher: National Association of School Psychologists