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Program
Information
The
Title I program is supervised by Susan Peterson, State and
Federal Program director. Vicky Marshall is the Title I Parenting
Program Coordinator and works each day from 10:30 – 4:00
pm. Her office is at Roosevelt Elementary School.
Vicky
provides Title I families with materials to enhance their
children’s literacy development in the form of books,
audio and video tapes, games, and a variety of other educational
materials. Each set of materials are specifically designed
for individual families based on their educational needs. Vicky
also teaches a variety of parenting classes and workshops
throughout the year (see Learning Opportunities for Parents
below.)
Learning
Opportunities for Parents:
Parent
Support for Children’s Literacy Workshops
- MegaSkills
MegaSkills is a program developed by Dorothy Rich. The MegaSkills are the values, attitudes and behaviors
that children need to succeed in school and in life. They are confidence, motivation, effort, responsibility,
initiative, perseverance, caring, teamwork, common sense and problem solving. The MegaSkills program consists
of 10 carefully planned workshops that are designed to be offered to parents in one and one half to two
hour sessions. The materials are available in both English and Spanish. Usually the first 4 of the workshops
are provided in four consecutive weeks.
- Conflict
Resolution
The Conflict Resolution classes offered is based on the book Battles, Hassels, Tantrums and Tears: Coping with Conflict and Creating
a Peaceful Home, by Susan Beekman and Jeanne Holmes. The classes may be 4 to 6 sessions, of one and one half hours to two hours.
The curriculum is as follows:
- Conflict Styles for Parents
- CHOICES for Responding to Conflicts with Kids
- Self-Defeating Messages
- Follow-Through Techniques
- Problem Solving
- Anger Management for Children and Adults
- Familiy Meetings
- First Step
The First Step program is a family companion program for students in the very early grades, who are learning
to be more successful in the school setting. Class goals and description is similar to the Second Step program.
- Second Step
This is the parental part of the Bellingham School Districts chosen program that is taught in the classroom
to help students develop greater empathy, impulse control and anger management. The parent portion
of the program offers classes for parents to learn the techniques that their children are learning in school
so that they can then use the same terminologies and strategies in working through behavior issues at home.
What parents and their children learn throughout the classes will benefit them throughout life in dealing
with difficult situations.Classes are usually offered 4 to 6 consecutive evenings. Sessions last one and
a half to two hours.
- Healthy
Brain Development and Media Literacy
One to four classes will be offered helping parents to understand what they can do to promote healthy brain
development and how media and technology affect children’s literacy and learning.
- Strengthening Families Program
An engaging and fun program for families with children ages 10-14. This program focuses on family strengths, making a good thing better by teaching skills for more positive communication, identifying family values, and reducing risky adolescent behaviors.
Community
Resources
Bellingham
Public Library—Free Children’s Activities
Parent
Internet Resources
Discovery
School
– Excellent source for parents with tips on Educational
TV programs, news reviews, video, book and audio reviews
arranged alphabetically, by age and by interest, appropriate
games and toys articles, study tools and more.
U.S.
Department of Education parenting information –
providing information on safety for children, the No Child
Left Behind legislation information, and many ideas for ways to spend time with children.
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