Family Involvement in Your Child's Education By Age...3 to 5

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• Families
• Education

Families

• Michigan Alliance for Families Early Childhood Development and Inclusion Page
• A Guide to Your Child’s Development from Early On® Michigan
• Great Parents Great Start
• Great Parents – Michigan Map: View resources available for families with children 0-5 in your county
• The ABCs of Child Development
• Parent Brief: Understanding Social and Emotional Development in Preschoolers
• Supporting Learning at Home Especially for Young Children
• Michigan OSE-EIS Listservs (includes parents, teachers/educators, "what's new" at MDE, and transition)

Education

• Michigan Alliance for Families Education page
• Michigan Department of Education: Helping Children Learn to Read
• R.E.A.D.Y. Early Learning Program
• Project Find Michigan
  • Is your child struggling? Referral for children from birth to age 26 for Special Education Services
  • Project Find Coordinators
• Early Childhood Special Education
• Head Start and Early Head Start
• Even Start Family Literacy Program
• Child Care Enhancement Program: Reducing Expulsion of Children from Child Care
• Early Childhood Standards of Quality for Infants and Toddlers
• Early Childhood Standards of Quality for Prekindergarten
• Transition to Kindergarten Parent Guides
• Kindergarten Enrollment Age and Alternative Kindergarten Programs
• ERIC - Education Resources Information Center
• SEAC - Special Education Advisory Committee

• Transition from Early On®

• Transition to Kindergarten

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• More Information
• Multimedia, Online Learning & Tools
• Research

More Information

• Wonder Years Newsletters
• Prepare My Child for School: Early Childhood Education
• Disabilityinfo.gov: Education: Infants & Toddlers
• Learn about Early Childhood Education Initiatives and Programs from Ed.gov
• NICHCY: Educating Children ages 3-22
• NICHCY: Services for Children with Disabilities ages 3-5
• Building the Legacy: IDEA 2004
• Great Start Connect

Multimedia, Online Learning & Tools

• Partners in Education
• Pacer Center Archived Webinars
• Early literacy learning: 3 from CELL - The Center for Early Literacy Learning (CELL) has released three new CELLcasts for parents (audio/video versions of CELL practice guides for viewing online or downloading to an iPod/Mp3 player).World of Words teaches parents where to find everyday literacy-rich opportunities in their community. Get Write on It discusses ways to encourage early writing in toddlers. Listen Hear focuses on helping children make letter and sound connections while learning to read and spell.
• Best Practice Tutorial Series: Early childhood mental health - The Center for Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (ECMHC) offers this series of six tutorials, which are designed to enhance users' skills and knowledge around how to implement effective mental health consultation in Head Start and Early Head Start (HS/EHS) programs.

Research

• National Center for Education Statistics
• NICHCY Research Database
• State characteristics: Kindergarten - This StateNote examines key components of each state's kindergarten policy, including the lower compulsory age; entrance age; if districts must offer; and if students must attend. A December 2010 report from the Education Commission of the States.
• Recruitment and retention of EI professionals - This practice brief from the Personnel Improvement Center suggests strategies to improve the recruitment and retention of EI personnel, including related service providers such as occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech-language pathologists.
• Family involvement in early childhood education - This research brief synthesizes the latest research that demonstrates how family involvement contributes to young children's learning and development.
• Young Latino infants and families: Parental involvement implications - This study provides a deeper understanding of how cultural practices combine with other factors to shape parenting behaviors among families in the United States in the first year of children's lives. Several findings provide information about ways in which practitioners and Latino families can more effectively engage with young Latino children to influence their cognitive, social, language, and literacy development-and therefore facilitate their school readiness.
• Making data come alive for families through young children's play - How to use children's work as a unique type of student data to track development and share children's progress with parents. From the Harvard Family Research Project.

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• Parents

Parents

• Michigan Family FUNdamentals Pre-K - 3 Learning Activities
• PBS Teacher Source Pre-K - learning activities and lesson plans for young children; geared toward classroom learning
• PBS Parents - learning activities and ideas for young children; geared toward parents working with their children at home
• Michigan Public Libraries

• National Education Association's "Practical Information that Parents Can Use" Parent Guide section includes information on:

  • Choosing Supplemental Education Service Providers
  • Testing at Your Child's School
  • Hey Mom, I Want To Be An Engineer!
  • Raising Scientifically Literate Children
  • Helping Your Child with Today's Math
  • Helping Your Child Learn to Read
  • Raising Ready Readers—and Keeping Them That Way
  • Helping Your Child Do Well in School

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• Michigan
• National

Michigan

• Office of Early Childhood Education & Family Services
• Office of Special Education and Early Intervention Services
• Directory: Michigan Directory of Service Providers for Infants, Toddlers, and Students with Disabilities
• NICHCY State Resources: Michigan
• MSU Children, Youth and Families
• Center for Educational Networking (CEN)
• Michigan Directory of Intermediate School Districts (ISDs)

National

• National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center
• National Early Childhood Transition Center
• Ed.gov - the U.S. Department of Education
• Center for Early Literacy Learning
• Project Spies for Parents
• Center for Evidence-Based Practice: Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention for Young Children
• National Association for the Education of Young Children
• National Network for Child Care
• U.S. Department of Education
• U.S. Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)
• National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY)
• National Coalition for Parental Involvement in Education

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