Parents

Parent Resources

Helping Children Learn - High School - a newsletter published September to May

English	Spanish

 

Helping Children Learn - Middle School - a newsletter published September to May

English	Spanish

 

Family and School Partnerships - offers workshops, classes and publications that help parents become educational partners.

FCPS Parent Resource Center - includes tutor lists, workshop schedules, summer camps and Parent Resource newsletters.

Career Parent Magazine includes articles and activities to "help your kids develop skills and knowledge about themselves, career alternatives, career and life planning, personal management and contributing to their community."

THE PARENT INSTITUTE

School Success Web Content Service Sites:

 

WEB SITES FOR INTERNET SAFETY AND COMPUTER ETHICS ISSUES

• FCPS Resources for Internet Safety

http://www.fcps.edu/is/instructionaltechnology/internetsafety/index.shtml

• NEW! VDOE Guidelines and Resources for Internet Safety in the schools -

  http://www.doe.virginia.gov/support/safety_crisis_management/internet_safety/index.shtml

• Child Safety on the Internet
• FBI's A Parent's Guide to Internet Safety

  http://www.fbi.gov/publications/pguide/pguidee.htm

• GetNetWise

  http://getnetwise.org/

• Yahooligans Safe Surfing Guidelines

  http://www.yahooligans.com/docs/safety

• Rules for Online Safety

  http://www.safekids.com

• Evaluating Internet Sites

  CARS...credibility, accuracy, reasonableness and support.

  http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources

• A list of resources for evaluating web sites

  http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/eval.html

• Websites for Kids

  http://kids.getnetwise.org/kidsites/
  

• Using Internet Search Engines
• Steps for better searching
  

  http://webquest.sdsu.edu/searching/sevensteps.html

• Copyright and fair use issues

  http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr280.shtml

• Plagarism

websources used for plagarism and websources used for fighting plagarism
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/plagiarism.html

• Acceptable Use Policy

Fairfax County Public School policy


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