Programs and Opportunities to Volunteer
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RLD Facilitator and notetakers collective
Let us know if you are interested in the RLD Training. TBD
The PPU RLD Mission
PPU RLD is Committed to family/ cultural sustainability, parent power, inclusion, education rights, healing and race reconciliation, PPU Restorative Listening Dialogue records and preserves the truths from those most marginalized in educational institutions. We especially seek to correct misconceptions, end exclusionary practices, prejudices, bring health and wellness to all families, and demonstrate how all families/cultures have and are continuing to help strengthen and enrich the school climate
PPU Student Circle
Teaching and Learning in Circle
Greg Lewis
Let’s begin with an exercise:
Why do you teach?
What would transpire in your ideal classroom?
Imagine your favorite unit:
Why do you teach it?
Why is it part of your curriculum?
Are you glad to be asked these questions? Are they challenging? Have you been asked them before? Could
you see these questions as the basis of a faculty meeting? What about a department meeting? Why or why
not?
Buddie System
About the Buddy System and How It Should Work
All of us (Parents, Teachers, Administrators and Support Staff), play a vital role in a child's education. We must be equal partners in developing relationships with each other. When children see that adults intentionally communicate and have relationships they will do better.
We must care deeply how our sons or daughters learn, grow and develop high self-esteem.. In the course of our children's education, we must interact with each other. Building relationships and becoming critical friends with each other. Being able to work together effectively. Exchanging ideas, concerns and openly communicating about what's working, what's not, and supporting each other as well as sometimes just listening, just being there and even crying on each other's shoulder.
Parents Mentoring Parents--Parentnet
We are advocates for building collaborative family-school-community partnerships that advance student learning and achievement.
We view achievement broadly, beyond grades and test scores, emphasizing the importance of a child's social, emotional, and intellectual learning and development.
Sponsored by the nonprofit National ParentNet Association, we are a leading resource on engaging families in the education and positive development of their children. Our site offers many free resources, including a growing Consultant Directory of professionals who work with schools in the family engagement field. We are also the home of ParentNet, a parent-led program in schools that engages parents in face-to-face conversations about raising healthy, successful kids in grades Pre-K to 12.
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Week
of
Action
The Grandparents Circle
The Parent Party
No Formal Meetings
J.P.L. Childcare training and services
THE PUSHOUT
CHORUS
Glen Singleton
Courageous
Conversations
and PASS
Promise
Club
How can we help our sons navigate a complicated world that is oftentimes unfair and unforgiving?
The answer is to be by their side as much as we physically, emotionally, mentally, and lovingly can.
Helping them become successful, compassionate, intelligent, men starts when they are young—
from the time their toddling in front of us, entering their kindergarten classroom, climbing the bus
to take them to middle and high school, and driving off to college. The more actively involved we
parents are, the better the child will
perform in school and in life.
Teachers Corner
Working With Parents: Advice from Teachers
Parents became my greatest resource. I openly solicited their active involvement and suggestions on how to better serve their child. I also presented them with ideas and activities they could do at home with their child to enhance their learning process. I later set up a homework/classroom Web site for my community of learners on the Internet so both parents and students could access the homework schedule. I purchased a cellular telephone for my classroom and turned it on during my 90-minute planning block so parents could reach me, if needed, on a daily basis."—Margie Robinson (Viera, Florida)