Parent Tips Parent Tips: Focus & Impulse Control—A Home–School Game Plan Build your child’s focus and impulse control with a simple, aligned home–school plan that uses shared cues, movement breaks, visual timers, and self-monitoring to turn energy into productive routines and consistent wins.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Defiance Into Dialogue—Coaching Respectful Choices Support families and teachers in replacing defiance with teachable skills using shared scripts, replacement behaviors, consistent reinforcement, ABC logs, and a simple one-page BIP for calm, respectful starts.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: From Homework Battles to Calm Study Routines Homework battles decrease when home and school align: clear exemplars, a shared planner, 15-minute Focus Blocks, and a green-yellow-red difficulty scale build routine, reduce stress, and boost student success.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Turning Blurting Into Better Participation If your child blurts out answers or interrupts in class, this parent–teacher plan helps build self-control through shared cues, simple routines, and positive reinforcement. Learn how to coach “pause, think, and wait” behaviors that improve participation and confidence.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Repairing Peer Conflicts the Right Way Learn how to handle peer conflicts with restorative practices that build empathy, accountability, and repair. This parent–teacher guide includes scripts, repair menus, and tracking tools to replace punishment with meaningful restoration.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Mastering Study Skills at Home (Retrieval, Spacing, and Focused Routines) Help your child study smarter with retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving, dual coding, and elaboration. Plus easy routines, scripts, games, and checklists.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Collaborating with Teachers for Your Child’s Success Strengthen home–school partnerships with strategies for conferences, check-in emails, goal setting, and advocacy to boost student success.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Supporting Bilingual and Multilingual Development Bilingual and multilingual parenting strategies: labeling, storytelling swaps, language days, games, and balanced exposure boost fluency, empathy, and cognition.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Encouraging Creative Thinking and Problem Solving Ignite your child’s creativity with design thinking, maker challenges, and open-ended art projects that build problem-solving, confidence, and resilience.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Promoting Digital Literacy and Online Safety Digital literacy and online safety for families: manage screen time, vet educational apps, teach fact-checking, set a family tech agreement, and use parental controls.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Establishing Effective Homework Routines Streamline homework time with distraction-free zones, timed sprints, and parent-child check-ins to boost focus and reduce stress.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Integrating STEM through Everyday Activities Turn everyday spaces into hands-on STEM labs: discover easy kitchen chemistry, backyard engineering, coding projects, and tips to make curiosity a family habit.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Cultivating Executive Function Skills Boost kids' executive function with color-coded calendars, chunked projects, timers & mindful breaks for better focus & independence.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Fostering Math Confidence at Home Fun everyday math: turn cooking, chores, shopping, and DIY geometry into hands-on counting, fractions, and problem-solving for kids.
Parent Tips Parent Tips: Building a Home Reading Culture Build a joyful home reading culture: tips for cozy nooks, engaging rituals, and family activities that boost kids’ literacy.
