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Free Tool for Scheduling Parent-Teacher Conferences
http://www.SignUpGenius.com/School
A simple and free tool to schedule your parent teacher conferences. Create your online sign up using great-looking templates.
Parents receive an email and sign up online. The system sends them an automatic email reminder. Saves teachers hours of scheduling time!

Parents Are a Secret Weapon
http://www.edutopia.org/parent-involvement-participation-education
Parents Are a Secret Weapon Just Waiting to Be Discovered
Scientists say parents partnering with teachers can change the future of education.
True partnerships aren't easy. They require trust, respect, and willingness to compromise and, ultimately, to share power and responsibility. Although some might argue that's a lot to expect of parents and educators, given what's at stake -- our children and our schools -- is it right to expect any less?

UK Government Info for Parents
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/index.htm
UK Government Info for Parents

Digital Generation Parents Share Their Wisdom
http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-parents-video
Digital Generation Parents Share Their Wisdom
1. Do you agree that parents just need to get out of the way for their kids?
2. How can "home drive school?"
3. How do you engage the whole family in digital media?
4. How do you live in the moment with kids to support their current interests?

Home-school agreements
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/parentalinvolvement/hsa/
Home-school agreements can raise standards and contribute to school effectiveness by enhancing partnerships between parents and teachers.
Home-school agreements will provide a framework for the development of such a partnership. The processes involved in introducing and reviewing the agreement will clarify what the school is trying to achieve, and the agreement will set out the role of the school, parents and pupils in this vital partnership.
This website is divided into a number of sections which will help you set up and manage your home-school agreement. Click on the following links to go to the relevant sections ...

Scheduly
http://www.scheduly.com/
Scheduly is about managing your appointments online, whether you have a business and you want to communicate more efficiently with your clients, need a system to arrange classrooms reservations, open a study group with your school buddies or just want to share appointments with friends and family.

Parental involvement is highlighted at BETT 2009 (UK)
http://www.teachers.tv/news/31393
Parental involvement is highlighted at BETT 2009
The Schools Minister stressed the importance of ensuring parents are engaged with ICT and can properly support their children's learning. He spoke of the role educational technology can play in narrowing the attainment gap between rich and poor. Almost 30,000 people visit the exhibition, many of them are teachers, school leaders and local authority decision makers.

Parent Teacher Conference Maker
http://www.ptconferencemaker.com/
Parent Teacher Conference Maker

Parent-Teacher Conference Scheduling
http://webapples.com/faq1.html
Easy Parent-Teacher Conference Scheduling - EasyPTS
"EasyPTS™ takes focused tasks that are not handled well (and sometimes not handled at all) by the core IT systems and uses a web based application to automate the task - specifically, Parent-Teacher conference scheduling. Data can be imported easily from core IT systems so duplicate data entry is eliminated. Interfaces are simplified and designed around the workflow needed to complete the task.
This makes the system intuitive and fast for users. By focusing on only one core task to automate, the system does not become bloated or expensive to purchase (or maintain)."

Online Parent/Teacher Conference Sign-up
http://www.teeso.com/
Online Parent/Teacher Conference Sign-up
Online Parent-Teacher Association Volunteer Sign-up
TEESO : Electronic School Office Service
The provider of the most effective school administrative services designed especially for schools on a tight budget. Our challenge is to provide pre-school through grade 12 schools with the most efficient and effective administrative services that seamlessly connect all the key constituencies of a school together. Please review our demonstration system to see how we have met this challenge.
Contact us for a username and password.

MySchoolAlerts
http://mashable.com/2008/09/09/myschoolalerts/
MySchoolAlerts Keeps Faculty, Parents, and Students Connected in Emergencies
A free messaging and notification system called MySchoolAlerts that will allow schools to communicate instantly with teachers, parents and students.
The school simply creates an account and the faculty members, parents and students just subscribe to the service. Everyone has the option to receive the messages any way they prefer because they can be delivered via e-mail, SMS, voice, widget or through a desktop application. Other types of alerts can be added as well, such as child safety alerts, severe weather warnings, gas price alerts and more.
http://www.alerts.com/myschoolalerts/

MyClassInfo
http://www.myclassinfo.org/
MyClassInfo is a free online service for parent-teacher communication.
First, teachers create a class account. Then, once the account is created, teachers can send invites to parents to create parent accounts.
MyClassInfo is free for both teachers and parents. And we intend to keep it free forever.
MyClassInfo - a Free Teacher Calendaring, Message, and Sign-Up Sheet Tool

Making Family and Community Connections (workshop)
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/familycommunity/index.html
Welcome to our workshop on Making Family and Community Connections. In this session we look at ways to create partnerships among schools, parents, and members of the local community. You should begin here in the "Explanation" section, which describes the CONCEPT. Then move along to the other sections, where we go from CONCEPT TO CLASSROOM.

Parents' evenings
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/teachingandlearning/library/parentsevenings/
Parents' evenings
Find advice and tips for making the most of valuable time with parents.

Home/School Resources at ICTeachers
http://www.icteachers.co.uk/resources/resources_homeschool.htm
Home/School Resources at ICTeachers
All the resources on this page are free for you to access and use.
Examples of home school agreements | school's survey to get parental feedback on homework | Example of a form to control the giving of medicines in school | examples of comments which could be used for reporting to parents | report comment banks |

Home ICT & School
http://www.riefnacken.de/bcs/
Home ICT & School
Parents and schools are equally interested in policies and practices to positively support the enhancement of learning. A recent source which shows levels across each EU member country is provided by the annual Eurobarometer surveys. Tables showing levels of home access are based on the statistics provided from this source.
The BCS Working Party on "Home ICT & School" has collected together a range of materials that might be useful as information or guidance for those seeking to develop or support home-school links within their school community. This site will be developed further as more schools, LEAs, parent and community groups, advisory groups, and publishers present ideas and materials that might be of use to a wider audience.

ICT for creating home-school links
http://www.ictadvice.org.uk/index.php?section=ap&cat=008&rid=571
ICT for creating home-school links
Many schools are aware of the benefits of creating strong links between the school and the home or community. There are many different ways in which ICT can assist in the process, and this step-by-step guide will help to get you started.

Local Homeless Education Agency
http://www.serve.org/nche/
Local Homeless Education Agency
Our website provides information and links to help educators, service providers, and families ensure that children and youth experiencing homelessness have access to educational opportunities and success in the classroom. Be sure to check the website regularly for updates!
Each child of a homeless individual and each homeless youth has the right to the same free appropriate public education, including a preschool education, as provided to other children and youth.

webALUMNUS
http://www.abattia.com/welcome_to_webalumnus.html
webALUMNUS?is a web-enabled alumni database packed with features that ease communication between alumni and reduce the burden of alumni management.
It is the first fully comprehensive alumni management system that uses the Internet together with built-in features that support compliance with the European Directive on data protection.
alumni | asp | web | internet |

Parentorganiser
http://www.parentorganizer.com/
Introducing a new way to keep track of school schedules, sports registration forms, permission slips, payments, announcements, and more. Completely personalized to your family.
Finally, an easy way to stay in touch with your child? school and stay on top of their extracurricular activities. Events, announcements and due dates are automatically put into your own personalized family calendar and in one email reminder. You don't have to remember to get the information...it comes to you in convenient daily and weekly email updates.

Working with Parents
http://www.education-world.com/preservice/learning/parents.shtml
Working with Parents
Meeting With the Parents - Making the Most of Parent-Teacher Conferences | Parent- and Community-Involvement Strategies That Work | Principals Share Parent Involvement Ideas | Parent Involvement in Schools | Fourteen Activities to Promote Parent Involvement | Teacher-Created Web Sites Link Home and School --- Virtually | The Homework Dilemma: How Much Should Parents Get Involved? | Parental Involvement Is as Easy as PIE! | Bring Your Fathers to School | Family Involvement in Children's Education | New Skills for New Schools: Preparing Teachers in Family Involvement | 101 Ways Parents Can Help Students Achieve |

Get Ready for Parent-Teacher Conferences (evenings)
http://www.familyeducation.com/topic/front/0,1156,4-2149,00.html
The Parent-Teacher Conference: Five Must-Ask Questions
Find out how your kids are really doing in school with these must-ask questions.
Parent-Teacher Night: Be There or Be Square! Parent Involvement that Works Full List...
Tips for a Great Parent-Teacher Conference Make the most out of your parent/teacher conference
parents evenings |

ICT and Home-School Links Project
http://www.becta.org.uk/research/reports/homeschoollinks/index.html
The ICT and Home-School Links Project was commissioned by the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta) on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills (DfES). Its aim was to gather information about existing use of electronic home-school links and to evaluate and exemplify good practice.
The project was timely because of growing interest in the role that ICT might play in promoting improved communication and partnership between home and school. There was a need for research to inform policy and practice.
Home-school links using ICT have been defined broadly to include:
electronic communications between the school (including the head, teachers and administrative staff), pupils and parents;
remote access to school records and information from the home uses of ICT, such as the school intranet,
Internet resources and portable technologies, which enable pupils' learning to take place in an extended home-school environment.

After-school Programs
http://www.thirteen.org/wnetschool/concept2class/month11/
Welcome to our workshop on After-school Programs -- From Vision to Reality. In this workshop we will look at the benefits that a quality after-school program can provide to students, their families, and their community, and discuss ways to create and sustain such programs.

Internet for School Counselors
http://www.indep.k12.mo.us/WC/wmccane.html
Miscellaneous www links.

DfEE Advice (UK) : Parent Partnerships
http://www.dfee.gov.uk/a-z/PARENT%5FPARTNERSHIPS.html
The National Parent Partnership Network, operated by the National Children’s Bureau, provides a central source of advice, information and training for parent partnership services. The Network maintains a database of services and can provide contact details for individual services across the country.

DfEE Advice (UK) : Parental Involvement
http://www.dfee.gov.uk/a-z/PARENTS.html
A ‘parent’ is defined in education law as including all natural parents, including those who are not married; any person who has parental responsibility, but is not a natural parent and any person who has care of a child.
Parental responsibility means assuming the rights, duties, powers, responsibilities and authority that, by law, a parent has in relation to the child. Every person with parental responsibility is entitled to share in the decisions that are made about a child’s education.

Advisory Centre for Education (ACE)
http://www.ace-ed.org.uk/
On this site, you will find news and information specifically for parents, school governors and teachers. ACE produce many useful leaflets and publications which are available to buy through the Publications Page. You can also support ACE by subscribing to the Stop Press or ACE Bulletin or by becoming a Member. Follow the link below for more information.

Parent and Family Involvement
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/pa0cont.htm
Some excellent papers / advice / suggestions / links ... helping and encouraging parental involvement in schools.

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