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FCPS Programs and Services for Families

Family and School Partnerships offers classes for parents and information about how families can support children’s success in school.
http://www.fcps.edu/cco/fam/services-family.htm

The Parent Resource Center for Special Education supports families of children with special needs. Resources include workshops for parents, a resource library, a newsletter, and lists of tutors and therapists.
http://www.fcps.edu/cco/prc/index.htm

Subscriptions

Family and School Partnerships subscribes to two online resources from The Parent Institute, which are available to all FCPS schools.

School Success Web Service
Parents can read advice from experts about how to support learning at home. The service is updated daily and offers a searchable database of articles. It is available in elementary and secondary school versions in both Spanish and English. There are two options for using this service: 1) Create a hyperlink to Family and School Partnerships http://www.fcps.edu/cco/fam/ptips.htm, 2) Personalize the link to your school’s page by inserting a code. Contact Ann.Ulmschneider@fcps.edu for your code and instructions.

Helping Children Learn Newsletter
This short, easy-to-read newsletter is available in preschool, elementary, middle, and high school versions in both Spanish and English. There are two ways you can add the newsletter to your site: http://www.fcps.edu/cco/fam/helping.htm

Other Helpful Links

http://www.schwablearning.org
A parent’s guide for helping students with learning disabilities.  Also includes information pertaining to parenting, study skills, test taking skills and homework.

http://www.pearsonschool.com/index.cfm?locator=PSZ2Fa
A parenting educational resource site. Learning Games, great educational tips and more.

http://www.scholastic.com/parents/
Site is designed to provide parents strategies to use to help students with academics and school adjustment.  The site is broken down by age/grade level.

http://www.ed.gov/parents/landing.jhtml
US Department of Education’s website for parents. 

http://www.fccpta.org/
This is the link to Fairfax County’s council of PTAs

http://www.education.com/
Site contains information for parents regarding academics (enrichment to remediation), social/emotional development, and extra curricular activities, and developing goals for the future. 

DISCLAIMER- This web page contains links to one or more web pages that are outside the FCPS network.
FCPS does not control the content or relevancy of these pages.
Web Curator: Megan Farrelly
Last Updated: August 30, 2010