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This Australian web page supports the prevention of violence against women by offering parents strategies for raising children to be respectful, understand gender equity, and cultivate healthy relationships.
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The author dissects myths and facts to assist students, parents, and teachers in thinking critically about Thanksgiving.
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On a Saturday morning in Washington, D.C., about two dozen elementary and secondary school teachers experienced a role reversal. This time, it was their turn to take a quiz: answer “true” or “false” for 14 statements about the famous meal known as the “First Thanksgiving.”
This article provides information from a workshop that helped teachers separate myths and facts so they could learn a better way to teach the Thanksgiving story to their students.
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The goal of this article is to talk about traditional bullying and cyberbullying, highlight the warning signs and effects of each, explain the differences between the two forms of harassment, and teach you ways to prevent or stop any form of bullying before it becomes out of control.
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A month-by-month guide filled with the advice, tools, and online resources you'll need to help your children have a school year packed with fun and learning.
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This interview with Tracy Murray, who has 27 years of work in classrooms, documents the radical—and positive--shift in the classroom in the way children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are viewed by society. ASD Nest, a program run by New York City’s Education Department and New York University is discussed; it includes kids with and without ASD in the same classroom and helps them all develop social and emotional skills. ASD Nest is running in 54 elementary, middle, and high schools across New York City.
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The Infant Vitality Toolkit for Men and Fathers is a resource that can help involve men in the pregnancy process and educate them about their role in infant care. Whether fathers are looking for information on their own or in a group setting, this Toolkit provides valuable resources. It takes all of us--including fathers--to ensure that all babies see their first birthdays and beyond.
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This webinar guides early child care professionals in considering what fathers experience when they walk into an early childhood program. What do they see, hear, and feel? It also reviews relationship-based strategies and effective ways to engage fathers, and helps practitioners to find starting points in making improvements to program environments. (Author abstract modified)
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The Parenting Curricula Review Databases explore parenting curricula options for families in Head Start and Early Head Start programs. There are separate databases for center-based and home-based curricula. Curricula are categorized by age of children, key topics, number/frequency of sessions, parenting domains addressed, languages available, cost, and other features. (Author abstract modified)
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In fiscal year (FY) 2011, the Children's Bureau of the Administration for Children and Families within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) funded a group of demonstration grants to test the effectiveness of Family Group Decision-Making (FGDM) and how to best implement it. These projects used FGDM meetings and other teaming approaches as a means of family engagement and capacity building to strengthen protective factors and reduce risk factors for child maltreatment. Each project conducted its own evaluation and submitted a final report, and all grantees participated in a…
