Resources

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...

This guide provides a summary of what your child will learn by the end of fifth grade in mathematics in the state of Kansas. This guide will also give some examples of the mathematics in fifth grade so you can assist your child.

Kansas Family Engagement and Partnership Standards for Early Childhood provides guidance for families, practitioners, community members, and educators to examine current family engagement practices and plan future strategies to engage families in their children’s development and learning.