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Serie de módulos sobre la participación de padres - Parent Engagement Modules Series - Migrant (CA Dept of Education)

Parent Engagement Modules Series - Migrant (CA Dept of Education)

Parent Engagement Modules Series
The Parent Engagement Modules Series presents information and strategies for parents to develop their capacity to support their children at school and at home.



Serie de módulos sobre la participación de padres
La Serie de módulos sobre la participación de padres tiene información y estrategias para que los padres desarrollen la capacidad de apoyar a sus hijos en la escuela y en su casa.

English version of the Parent Engagement Modules Series

Un factor principal en el desempeño del estudiante y en su bienestar general es que los padres (o los tutores) tengan un papel integral en la vida de sus hijos. Es por eso que la Oficina de Educación Migrante (MEO, por sus siglas en inglés) del Departamento de Educación de California, en colaboración con WestEd, creó la Serie de módulos sobre la participación de padres, con el fin de que los padres desarrollen la capacidad de apoyar a sus hijos en la escuela y en su casa. En el Plan de Prestación de Servicios Estatales de la MEO, un marco curricular para la prestación de servicios relacionados con la educación migrante, se establece la necesidad de apoyar y de aumentar la participación de los padres y de la familia. Estos siete módulos para padres se desarrollaron para darles a los padres y a la familia información y estrategias para tratar temas importantes; por ejemplo, utilización de la disciplina positiva para apoyar el desarrollo de los niños, maneras de criar niños seguros de sí mismos, acoso escolar y otros temas. Todos los módulos están diseñados para que los presente un facilitador, pero los padres también pueden verlos por su cuenta.

Módulo 1: Resumen para el facilitador de los Módulos de Participación de Padres y documentos de apoyo

El módulo 1 es una introducción, de entre 15 y 20 minutos, a la Serie de módulos sobre la participación de padres, donde se da una breve presentación de todos los módulos y los documentos de apoyo. En él se indica cómo utilizar los módulos como un recurso para las capacitaciones de padres o como una herramienta informativa para uso personal.

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Resumen para el facilitador de los Módulos de Participación de Padres y documentos de apoyo

English version of Facilitator Overview of Migrant Modules and Handouts

Módulo 2: Utilizar disciplina positiva para ser un padre más eficaz

A través del módulo 2, los participantes recibirán información contextual, estrategias de implementación y ejemplos prácticos sobre cómo utilizar la disciplina positiva para ser un padre más eficaz. Podrán reflexionar sobre cómo este material se aplica a su vida diaria, practicar nuevas estrategias y realizar un plan para aplicar las nuevas estrategias.

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Utilizar disciplina positiva para ser un padre más eficaz

English version of Using Positive Discipline to Be a More Effective Parent

Módulo 3: Criar a niños seguros de sí mismos implementando objetivos y una actitud orientada al crecimiento

A través del módulo 3, los participantes recibirán información contextual, estrategias de implementación y ejemplos prácticos sobre cómo criar niños seguros de sí mismos implementando objetivos y una actitud orientada al crecimiento. Podrán reflexionar sobre cómo este material se aplica a su vida diaria, practicar nuevas estrategias y realizar un plan para aplicar las nuevas estrategias.

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Criar a niños seguros de sí mismos implementando objetivos y una actitud orientada al crecimiento

English version of Growing Self-Confident Children Through Goal Setting and Growth Mindset

Módulo 4: Sistemas escolares y múltiples culturas

A través del módulo 4, los participantes recibirán información contextual sobre los sistemas escolares estadounidenses y las diferencias culturales con otros sistemas y recibirán estrategias prácticas para superar las diferencias, centrándose en ejemplos de las escuelas mexicanas y estadounidenses. Podrán reflexionar sobre cómo este material se aplica a su vida diaria, practicar nuevas estrategias y realizar un plan para aplicar las nuevas estrategias.

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Sistemas escolares y múltiples culturas

English version of School Systems and Multiple Cultures

Módulo 5: Ayudar a que su hijo/a tenga éxito en la escuela

A través del módulo 5, los participantes recibirán información contextual, estrategias de implementación y ejemplos prácticos sobre cómo ayudar a que sus hijos tengan éxito en la escuela. Podrán reflexionar sobre cómo este material se aplica a su vida diaria, practicar nuevas estrategias y realizar un plan para aplicar las nuevas estrategias.

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Ayudar a que su hijo/a tenga éxito en la escuela

English version of Supporting Your Child to Be Successful in School

Módulo 6: Entender y comunicarse con sus hijos adolescentes

A través del módulo 6, los participantes recibirán información contextual, estrategias de implementación y ejemplos prácticos sobre cómo comunicarse de manera efectiva con sus hijos adolescentes. Podrán reflexionar sobre cómo este material se aplica a su vida diaria, practicar nuevas estrategias y realizar un plan para aplicar las nuevas estrategias.

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Entender y comunicarse con sus hijos adolescentes

English version of Understanding and Communicating with Your Teenager

Módulo 7: El acoso escolar: Qué es y cómo ayudar a sus hijos

A través del módulo 7, los participantes recibirán información contextual, estrategias de implementación y ejemplos prácticos sobre cómo ayudar a prevenir y apoyar a los niños en relación al acoso escolar.

Start module 7.
El acoso escolar: Qué es y cómo ayudar a sus hijos

English version of Bullying: What It is and How to Help Your Child

Questions:   Migrant Education Office | 916-319-0851

A primary factor in student achievement and overall well-being, parents (or guardians) play an integral part in their children’s lives. For this reason, the California Department of Education’s Migrant Education Office (MEO), in collaboration with WestEd, created the Parent Engagement Module Series for parents to develop their capacity to support their children at school and at home. The MEO’s State Service Delivery Plan, a framework for migrant education service delivery, identifies the need to support and increase parent and family engagement. These seven parent modules were developed to provide parents and family with information and strategies to address important topics such as the use of positive discipline to support child development, ways to raise self-confident children, bullying at school, and more. All of the modules are intended to be presented by a facilitator but can also be viewed independently by parents.

Module 1, Facilitator Overview of Migrant Modules and Handouts

Module 1 is a 15 to 20 minute introduction to the Parent Engagement Module Series and provides a short overview of all the modules and handouts. It details how to use the modules as a resource for parent trainings or as an informational tool for individual use.

Module 2, Using Positive Discipline to Be a More Effective Parent

Module 2 participants will receive background information, implementation strategies, and practical examples of using positive discipline to be a more effective parent; reflect upon how this material applies to their daily lives; practice new strategies; and make a plan for applying new strategies.

Module 3, Growing Self-Confident Children Through Goal Setting and Growth Mindset

Module 3 participants will receive background information, implementation strategies, and practical examples of growing self-confident children through goal setting and growth mindset; reflect upon how this material applies to their daily lives; practice new strategies; and make a plan for applying new strategies.

Module 4, School Systems and Multiple Cultures

Module 4 participants will receive background information about the U.S. school systems and cultural differences with other systems; receive practical strategies for bridging the differences, with a focus on examples of Mexican and U.S. schools; reflect upon how this material applies to their daily lives; practice new strategies; and make a plan for applying new strategies.

Module 5, Supporting Your Child to Be Successful in School

Module 5 participants will receive background information, implementation strategies, and practical examples of helping their children be successful in school; reflect upon how this material applies to their daily lives; practice new strategies; and make a plan for applying new strategies.

Module 6, Understanding and Communicating with Your Teenager

Module 6 participants will receive background information, implementation strategies, and practical examples of effectively communicating with teenage children; reflect upon how this material applies to their daily lives; practice new strategies; and make a plan for applying new strategies.

Module 7, Bullying: What It is and How to Help Your Child

Module 7 participants will receive will background information, implementation strategies, and practical examples of how to help prevent and support children with regard to bullying.
Questions:   Migrant Education Office | 916-319-0851

Parent Engagement Modules Series - Migrant (CA Dept of Education)

DeVos Stands Up For Testocracy

 DeVos Stands Up For Testocracy

DeVos Stands Up For Testocracy



Thursday, Betsy DeVos issued a letter clarifying the Department of Education's position on postponing the Big Standardized Test this year, and it closes one of the few remaining gaps between DeVos and Arne Duncan.

In a letter to chief state school officers, DeVos noted that there has been a pandemic. She thanked the school leaders for their efforts to meet the needs of all students (forgetting, perhaps, all the times she has recently claimed that most pubic schools haven't done a damn thing) and notes that some of the crew has been bringing up the issue of testing waivers for this school year.

The answer, she says, is a big fat "Nope." She expects that the BS Tests will be given. And she offers this:

As you’ll recall, statewide assessments are at the very core of the bipartisan agreement that forged ESSA. They are among the most reliable tools available to help us understand how children are performing in school. The data from assessments can help inform personalized
support to children based on their individual needs and provide transparency about their progress. There is broad and consistent support for assessments because there is general agreement among CONTINUE READING: 
 DeVos Stands Up For Testocracy



Video: Start off school by watching, “Teaching When The World Is On Fire”

 Video: Start off school by watching, “Teaching When The World Is On Fire”

Video: Start off school by watching, “Teaching When The World Is On Fire”

Dr. Lisa Delpit, Sarah Ishmael, Jonathan Tunstall, & Jesse Hagopian on the struggle for racial justice in education.


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Our world is literally on fire–whether it’s the climate change fueled fires in California or the police terror fulled fires from the uprising for Black lives–and educators have a special responsibility in this era to help students make sense of the these realities and empower them to help make collective change.

With school starting back, now is a good time to check out this video, hosted by Dr. Lisa Delpit, on “Teaching When The World Is On Fire.”

As part of the 2020 “Reimagining Education: Teaching, Learning, and Leading for a Racially Just Society Summer Institute,” I joined the amazing Dr. Lisa Delpit for a discussion on themes from her newest book, Teaching While the World is on Fire–a book I contributed to with a co-authored chapter with Dr. Wayne Au titled, “How One Elementary School Sparked a Citywide Movement to Make Black Students’ Lives Matter.” Also joining the panel were book CONTINUE READING:  Video: Start off school by watching, “Teaching When The World Is On Fire” 

The School Reopening Gamble

 The School Reopening Gamble

The School Reopening Gamble



In the next week or so, schools districts all over the country will reopen their buildings as their new year begins. During our pre-service training, a teacher colleague of mine described the process as a “grand experiment.”

But he’s wrong; it’s not an experiment. It’s a gamble.

An experiment, by definition, is a controlled, scientific procedure designed to gain knowledge. When a researcher conducts an experiment, they try, as much as possible, to control for outside factors that may affect an outcome. The goal is to see relationships between causes and effects, and better understand how the world works.

A gamble, on the other hand, is a risky action taken with the hopes of getting a favorable result. A gambler isn’t trying to learn anything – all they want is a win.

America’s school reopening plans aren’t experiments; we aren’t trying to learn more about how COVID-19 spreads, or its effects. We are, instead, making a huge bet: we’re hoping that we’ll get the benefits of sending children into school buildings without making the pandemic worse.

The problem, however, is that a good gambler always knows the odds. Before placing a bet, a gambler weighs the risks of losing against the rewards of winning. Las Vegas is full of CONTINUE READING:  The School Reopening Gamble



Talk out of School podcast with Jamaal Bowman and Randi Levine

 Talk out of School podcast with Jamaal Bowman and Randi Levine

Talk out of School podcast with Jamaal Bowman and Randi Levine



Check out our latest "Talk out of School" podcast with former principal Jamaal Bowman about his landslide primary win in NY's District16 and what he intends to do for our public schools when he gets to Congress.

Then we spoke to Randi Levine, Policy Director of Advocates for Children, about what she thinks of the city's just-released school reopening plan  and whether it does enough for the more than 200,000 students with special needs and the 114,000 students who are homeless.  More information below.

  

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 Talk out of School podcast with Jamaal Bowman and Randi Levine


Charter Schools Find Gold in Federal Government Aid to Small Businesses While Black-Owned Firms Get the Shaft - Citizen Truth

Charter Schools Find Gold in Federal Government Aid to Small Businesses While Black-Owned Firms Get the Shaft - Citizen Truth

Charter Schools Find Gold in Federal Government Aid to Small Businesses While Black-Owned Firms Get the Shaft




During the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic fallout, the charter industry added to systemic inequities that afflict Black communities.

The charter school industry has done much during the COVID-19 pandemic to add to systemic inequities that afflict Black communities by hijacking small business relief aid originally intended for minority-owned businesses and redirecting these funds to schools that further isolate Black families.
When emergency aid for small businesses hit by the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic rolled out in North and South Carolina, Black-owned businesses were mostly bypassed. Only 3 percent of loans worth $150,000 or more went to Black-owned businesses, according to Charlotte-based WCNC, which analyzed loans awarded to small businesses that included race on their applications. Of the 2,026 small business owners and nonprofits who got the loans, only 64 of them were Black, and 1,791 were white.
In Tennessee, the story was much the same. When a Nashville Fox News affiliate compared the amounts of small business emergency aid given out to businesses in Black communities in the city to those in whiter, wealthier parts of town, it found “a huge [negative] discrepancy when it comes to historically Black neighborhoods.”
This pattern held true on the other side of the country where San Diego public media station KPBS reported, “Storefronts in underserved communities south of I-8 couldn’t get any money.”
In heartland Kansas City, KCTV reported, out of 4,677 emergency loans given to small businesses in the CONTINUE READING: Charter Schools Find Gold in Federal Government Aid to Small Businesses While Black-Owned Firms Get the Shaft - Citizen Truth

A VERY BUSY DAY Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... The latest news and resources in education since 2007

   Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... | The latest news and resources in education since 2007


A VERY BUSY DAY
Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
The latest news and resources in education since 2007
 
 


Ed Tech Digest
Nine years ago, in another somewhat futile attempt to reduce the backlog of resources I want to share, I began this occasional “” post where I share three or four links I think are particularly useful and related to…ed tech, including some Web 2.0 apps. You might also be interested in THE BEST ED TECH RESOURCES OF 2020 – PART ONE , as well as checking out all my edtech resources . Here are this w
“Lessons for Teachers From George Floyd’s Death & Black Lives Matter”
Lessons for Teachers From George Floyd’s Death & Black Lives Matter is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Four educators share changes they are making in their teaching as a result of the violent death of George Floyd and subsequent protests, such as trying to leave a deficit framework behind and looking at more systemic causes of racism. Here are some excerpts:
Friday’s Two Must-Read Articles & One Must-Watch Video On School Reopening
hitesh0141 / Pixabay Here are new additions to THE BEST POSTS PREDICTING WHAT SCHOOLS WILL LOOK LIKE IN THE FALL : Why Does My Kid’s Online School Still Start at 7:50 in the Freaking Morning? is from Slate. How 3 Countries Are Educating Their Kids During The Pandemic is from NPR.
First Day Of School In Three Tweets
stux / Pixabay Dysfunction in our district is beyond belief. Tchers were told we didn’t need invite stdnts 2 Google Classroom & dist would do it 1st day of class. It didn’t work. Now we have to send out invites manually. But dist won’t cancel PD we’re in. Schl starts in hour. — Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) September 3, 2020 So, everyone has cameras off, turned off volume and sending out invite
Three More New – And Good – Resources For Teaching About The Presidential Election
AnnaliseArt / Pixabay Here are three new additions to THE BEST RESOURCES FOR TEACHING ABOUT THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION : The Battleground States Biden and Trump Need to Win 270 is a cool interactive from The NY Times. The True Colors of America’s Political Spectrum Are Gray and Green is also from The NY Times. Election 2020 is from Scholastic.
New TED-Ed Video & Lesson: “Why people fall for misinformation”
The new TED-Ed lesson and video is on “Why people fall for misinformation.” I’m adding it to The Best Tools & Lessons For Teaching Information Literacy – Help Me Find More .

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