School Success: An Introduction
Parent involvement in school is crucial to our children's success, but for many busy parents, making time to support academic success can be a challenge. It can be easy to assume that your child's education is the sole responsibility of schools, but remember that education is most effective when parents and schools work together. By practicing a few simple steps for preparing your kids for school, and doing what you can to encourage learning outside of school, you’ll be helping your child succeed in school—and in life!
Did You Know?
- 80% of adults say that encouraging young people to do well in school is the most important thing adults can do for kids.1
- 34% of 6th- through 12th-grade students say that their parents are involved in their education. 2
- Children and teenagers spend more time in school and learning settings than in any other structured activity.3
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1. Developmental Assets: A Profile of Your Youth (Minneapolis, MN: Search Institute, 2005), 2003 weighted aggregate dataset, unpublished report.
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Back to School Tips
We’ve compiled some simple, everyday, back to school tips—for all ages and stages—to help make the transition as stress-free as possible.
Everyday Steps are the little things you can do as a parent, every day. These little steps add up to successful kids in the long run. Look for the Everyday Steps icon throughout ParentFurther, and remember: The little things you do—every day—add up!
GREAT information. As we are preparing for our youngest to go to “School” and ride the big bus, this was very helpful.
Very informative!
This is a really big issue getting parents to see the big picture of staying involved in their child’s education! Making it apart of their daily or weekly routine to see just what their kids are learning in school and how they are learning and communicating what they have learned. The teacher is to teach and parents are to make sure their child is learning what is being taught. That is a huge job for parent involvement.
you need a bit more information.