Welcome parents and caretakers of Arizona K-12 public education students! Below are resources designed to help families support student success with online resources and tools to better communicate with your child’s educators throughout the school year.
To help parents and caretakers shape summer learning plans, Learning Heroes has updated their Summer Parent, Caretaker, and Teacher Planning Tool. They also encourage parents and caretakers to use the Readiness Check to see how their child is doing with key math and reading skills needed for next school year.
For districts, schools, and educator-facing organizations, Learning Heroes created an End of Year Parent, Caretaker and Teacher Planning Tool that helps teachers connect with families.
Communication between parents and educators has always been critical to the academic success of students. In the online learning environment, it is important that parents, caretakers and teachers talk to each other on a regular basis. Work with your child’s teacher to get clear expectations on how you will communicate each academic year.
What questions should I be asking my child’s teacher? Communication between parents, caretakers and educators is critical to the academic success of students.
Additionally, you may need to engage your child’s school principal if the teacher doesn’t have answers for your questions.
*Every school district and charter school has the ability to choose which online platform they use for learning. We recommend asking your child’s teacher and/or school principal which online platform their school is using and what resources they have available to help you navigate the platform.
Common Sense Media has compiled a wonderful resource, Wide Open School, to help parents and caretakers, students and educators navigate the distance learning environment. The platform features a free and open collection of online learning experiences and referrals to social and community services for PreK-12 kids and families in English and Spanish.
ADE Resources for Arizona Parents & Families: Information from the Arizona Department of Education on Arizona Parental Rights and public schools.
ALL In Education - Parent Educator Academy: A free training course for parents and caretakers to better support their children in learning. Additionally, parents and caretakers receive in-demand skills to become job ready.
Arizona SciTech Resource Portal: Browse thousands science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) such as activities, virtual tours and videos with the ability to filter by age, topic and resource type.
Arizona State Libraries: Access the Digital Arizona Library for Arizona resource topics, historic newspapers, digital content and collections. Arizonans can also explore thousands of online articles and images from popular magazines, scholarly journals, current newspapers and other reference works through their public library websites.
Connect-Arizona: Arizona Free WiFi Map - Search for locations in Arizona that provide free public WiFi hotspots at public libraries, schools, businesses, and other sites. Free tech support available.
Cox Digital Academy: Families, educators, community leaders and students can access information regarding computer literacy tips, educational videos, tutorials and games.
Parent and Family Digital Learning Guide: This guide aims to help all parents and caregivers, including those who have limited experience with digital tools, those who are expert with these tools, and anywhere in between. Each section starts with foundational pieces and builds from there.
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