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Minnesota Parent Involvement Week: Parent Involvement Matters!

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Bringing great parents and great schools together

September 14-20, 2008 is Minnesota Parent Involvement Week. Minnesota schools and districts can support parent involvement and raise awareness about the importance of parent involvement in children's academic success. Minnesota parents can support academic success when they take an active interest in what children are learning.

  • Schools
    • Involve more parents by sending this Tip Sheet home with the Parent Involvement Reward Card. The tips are easy, clear and will give some new ideas to parents. The reward card will provide a concrete activity for both students and parents to fill out and return.
  • Parents
    • Try these quick tips:

      1. Visit the library together and sign your child up for a library card.
      2. Read a book with your child.
      3. Read the newspaper with your child and discuss an article.
      4. Compare a book and movie of the same story.
      5. Help your child make his or her own book.
      6. Set aside reading time every day.
      7. Provide comfortable, quiet space where your child can read.
      8. Build a fun collection of words by theme, size, meaning, etc.
      9. Make up a story to explain an event: "How did that car get dented?"
      10. Play word games, such as Boggle, Scrabble, or Upwords.
    • Save the date - Minnesota Parent Center's Second Annual Parent Involvement Conference
      • October 23 - 24 "Welcoming, Honoring, and Connecting"

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