Resources

The Kansas Parent Information Resource Center (KPIRC) is the Parent Information Technical Assistance Center for the state of Kansas. KPIRC promotes meaningful parent involvement at all levels of education and provides information and resources to help parents, educators and other organizations pr...

Sometimes, you’ll hear educators use a word that has a specific meaning in schools. This guide will help you understand those terms and will help you speak the same language!

Teachers and principals talk a lot about assessments, which are used to measure students’ academic achievement. As a parent and your child’s first teacher, you should be informed of the assessment and accountability system that is in place in your child’s school. This resource provides ways to pr...

Measuring the degree to which families are engaged and then using that data for targeting improvement can be challenging. In this Ignite presentation: the newly developed 15 item Family Engagement Survey (Noonan, Gaumer Erickson, & Groff, 2015) will be shared and how it was used by schools im...

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are serious childhood traumas that result in toxic stress that can harm a child’s brain. The more ACEs a child experiences, the more likely he is to struggle with learning, playing in a healthy way with other children, making friends, and can result in long-te...