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Find out about what skills help children learn, how they learn language, how they learn about feelings and relationships, how they learn about numbers, and how they become skillful at moving their bodies on All About Young Children, a resource Read more >>

10 Things To Do Before School Starts

If your child has learning challenges, a successful school year begins in July, not the first day of classes. Set up your child for success by reviewing his IEP or 504 Plan, developing organization systems with him, communicating with teachers, Read more >>

Dear Teacher, Please Meet My Child [downloadable]

Begin each new school year by composing a letter to your child’s new teacher that outlines his strengths, interests, academic and social challenges, ADHD symptoms, and successful learning strategies. Read more >>

Stop Bullying: Speak Up [downloadable]

Launched in 209 by Cartoon Network, the Stop Bullying: Speak Up campaign, encourages the bystander to ‘speak up’ when they see bullying by getting an adult. Read more >>

Report: Are Students’ Assessments of Their Own Interpersonal Skills Reliable? [downloadable]

Researchers who examined data from five large California school districts have concluded that measures of students’ personal strengths and interpersonal skills are not reliable enough at this point to include in states’ and districts’ school accountability systems. Read more >>

Concrete Ways To Help Students Self-Regulate And Prioritize Work

There are a lot of skills necessary to succeed in school that aren’t directly about mastering content, including the ability to recognize, name and control ones emotions. The school day often comes with lots of emotion, everything from elation to Read more >>

National PTA’s Special Education Toolkit [web resource]

The Special Education Toolkit from National Parent-Teacher Association (National PTA) helps make sense of an often confusing system and educates families of newly diagnosed children with special needs on how to get the best special education, services, and resources available Read more >>

Family Guides: Help Your Children Succeed in Key Learning Areas [downloadable]

When families, communities and schools work together, students are more successful. In fact, decades of research show that students with involved parents are more likely to attend school regularly, perform better in school, develop better social skills, and go on Read more >>

Twice Exceptional, Doubly Disadvantaged? How Schools Struggle to Serve Gifted Students with Disabilities

Twice exceptional, or 2e kids are believed to make up at least 6 percent of students in special education — possess high academic aptitude but struggle with ADHD, mild autism, dyslexia or other learning and behavioral challenges. They are notoriously Read more >>

Transgender Students Are Still at Risk, But Schools Can Help

In 2015, Vanessa Ford’s 4-year-old came out as transgender. Ford says she was lucky to have a strong support network and an understanding school, but she was still a little overwhelmed. Even though she had spent 14 years as an Read more >>

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