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Are you looking for opportunities to learn more about parent involvement? Check out these free resources to build your skills.

Beyond the Building

Quick skill-building activities for educators to use at staff meetings to increase teachers’ capacity for engaging parents in education.
Are you looking for something fun to do with your family in the Twin Cities? The Family Times calendar of events may help.

Parental Involvement

Studies show that children are more likely to succeed when parents are actively involved in their education

  • they learn more
  • earn higher grades
  • they have better school attendance

What does parental involvement mean and how can schools and families work together more effectively to help students learn? Minnesota Parent Center offers the following links to resources organized into three family involvement strategies, based on Epstein’s Six Types of Involvement.

Take Care of the Basics
Help Children Learn
Make Schools Better

Minnesota Say Yes To No, a community conversation from Mediawise

Minnesota Parent Center is a partner in the Minnesota Say Yes to No campaign. Learn more about this effort; we’re all working together to raise healthy, self-reliant kids so they will be successful in school and life.



























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