Current Parents

From the entire team here, we hope this growing platform of resources is a helpful way to support your children’s learning and development at home.

We encourage you to check in regularly here and browse through the articles, videos and activities and use them to gain greater insight into what you can do as parents to give you children the best opportunity for success (whatever that means for you).

Here is some research that outlines just how important you are in your child’s learning development:

* Credit: https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/06/07/family-involvement-what-does-research-say 

“Cumulative evidence from several decades of research points to several benefits of family involvement for children’s learning, including helping children get ready to enter school, promoting their school success, and preparing youth for college. Read the first in a series of research briefs examining family involvement across the developmental continuum, focused on family involvement in early childhood.

Summary

Family involvement can help children get ready to enter school. In the early childhood years, family involvement is clearly related to children’s literacy outcomes. For example, one study revealed that children whose parents read to them at home recognize letters of the alphabet sooner than those whose parents do not.

Family involvement can promote children’s success. For school-age children, family involvement is also important. Children whose parents participate in school activities tend to have high-quality work habits and task orientation compared to children whose parents do not participate. Moreover, parents who provide support with homework have children who tend to perform better in the classroom. 

Family involvement can benefit all children, especially those less likely to succeed in school. Family involvement has been shown to benefit children from diverse ethnic and economic backgrounds. 

And a video that we hope will get you thinking….