Educational Links
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Teaching & Learning Resources
Resources for parents from the Woodridge 68 Teaching & Learning office.
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Parent Toolkit
This toolkit will help you navigate your child’s journey from pre-kindergarten through high school. It is designed to help you track and support progress at each stage.
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Help Children Thrive at School
What parents and caregivers can ask and do to help children thrive at school: a parent checklist. While your child’s education begins at home, this tool provides you with a set of questions to ask, and important issues to consider when approaching your child’s teachers, principals and counselors about his or her development.
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Absences Add Up: How School Attendance Influences Student Success
This state-by-state analysis of national testing data demonstrates that students who miss more school than their peers consistently score lower on standardized tests, a result that holds true at every age, in every demographic group, and in every state and city tested.
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Social and Emotional Learning Research Group
Research-based resources on parenting, social and emotional learning, and school-family partnerships from University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Psychology.
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Common Sense Media
Common Sense is the nation's leading independent nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering kids to thrive in a world of media and technology. Families, educators, and policymakers turn to Common Sense for unbiased information and trusted advice to help them learn how to harness the positive power of media and technology for all kids.
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Internet Learning Center
Explore online tutorials to learn how to make the most of your home Internet connection. If you'd like to get more hands on, search for and enroll in a free computer class offered near you.
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Khan Academy
A personalized learning resource for all ages. Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom.
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Greater Good Science Center
Greater good in action - science-based practice for a meaningful life. Build happiness, resilience, connection & more with research-backed tools on this website.