Padlets: Digital Bulletin Boards with information collected by the PRC for families.

Summer Activities: Suggestions for independent play, water play, family-time activities, and other resources.

Summer Survival Guide: Are you ready for summer?  We want to help you have the best possible summer, whether you are feeling worn out from the last year or ready to do it all.  We are breaking it down to a topic a day to help you think through your options, have conversations with your family, and implement new strategies to set you and your family up for success. 

Special Needs Summer Camps: The PRC organized a list of summer camps that are accessible to children with special needs.  The summer camps listed here are provided for informational purposes only. They do not reflect recommendations or endorsements by Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) or The FCPS Parent Resource Center. Please contact the camps directly for fees and availability.

Parent Resource Center Workshops on Youtube

Twice Exceptional Students: What Parents Need to Know

FCPS Links: Parent Information

• AP Overview Video | La sinopsis de los servicios del Programa Académico Avanzado

• AAP Screening and Identification Video | Evaluación e identificación para los servicios AAP Nivel IV (a tiempo completo)

• Dates and Times for Parent Information Meetings

• Family Resources to Support Student Development

• FCPS AAP Philosophy

• FCPS VA Local Plan for the Gifted 2016-2020

• Review of the FCPS AAP Executive Summary

FCPS Links: School Services

• Elementary School AAP Services
• Middle School AAP Services
• High School AAP Services

FCPS Links: Applications

• AAP - Level IV Appeals
• Forms, purpose, and deadlines
• Identification and Placement for Private/Home Schooled Families
• Identification and Placement for Students New to FCPS Boundaries (Including Military Families)
• Identification and Placement for Current FCPS Students

FCPS Links: AAP and Special Populations

• Twice-Exceptional (2e) Learners
• Young Scholars

FCPS Parent Resource Center Workshops on Youtube

• Family Digital Wellness: When is the Internet a Problem?
  Assistive Technology to Support Executive Functioning
• Digital Citizenship
• Raising Screen Smart Kids
• Strategies for Implementing Communication Device in your Home
• Tech Tools to Support Struggling Readers
• Using Technology to Support Reading and Writing While Encouraging Independence
• Digital Citizenship Series Part 1: How to Find Balance with Technology
• Digital Citizenship Series Part 2: Hot Topics: What Concerns You the Most?

FCPS Links:

• Choosing Digital Apps, Games and Services Wisely
• Digital Citizenship: Establishing Expectations at HomeRewriting your Parenting Story
• Digital Citizenship Student Curriculum
• Digital Citizenship For Families with Teens (Online Course)
• Resources for Families
• Information for Students
• Videos and Tip Sheets
• Podcast: Digital Citizenship: When Technology and Social Emotional Learning Intersect
• Social Media Best Practices for Students
• Things to Consider when Getting a New Phone, Computer or Gaming Device for Your Child
• Using Technology Mindfully: A Podcast

Community Resources

• Digital Citizenship: Padlet

Parent Resource Center Workshops on Youtube

What Parents Need to Know about 504 Plans

FCPS Links: Instruction and Assessment

• 504 Plans for Students with Dyslexia
• Accommodations for Students with Dyslexia
• Assistive Technology for Students with Dyslexia
• Core Instruction for Students with Dyslexia
• Responsive Instruction for Students with Dyslexia

FCPS Links: Characteristics of Students with Dyslexia

• Characteristics and Signs of Dyslexia
• Common Co-Existing Conditions with Dyslexia
• Signs of Dyslexia
• Self-Advocacy and Voice for Students with Dyslexia
• Social Emotional Impacts of Dyslexia
• Twice Exceptional (2e) Learners and Dyslexia

FCPS Links: General Resources

• Dyslexia Regional Points of Contact, Family Guides, Books, and Websites
• FCPS Dyslexia Handbook
• Dyslexia Online Training for Parents 
• Family Guide to Dyslexia: Elementary Schools
• Family Guide to Dyslexia: Secondary Schools

Parent Resource Center Workshops on Youtube

• Tips to Improving Your Parenting Long Game

• Families as Partners Supporting Your Student’s Social and Emotional Learning SEL

• Parent Coaching in Early Childhood

• Supporting Healthy Habits and Routines in Early Learners
• Challenging Behaviors: ABCs of Behavior and How to Respond
• Seven Steps to Behavior Success at Home
• Exploring Early Childhood AT at Home
• Pathways to Preschool: Video Playlist 

FCPS Tip Sheets

• 5-4-3-2-1 Early Childhood Tips for Today
• Helping Children Learn Newsletter

FCPS Links: General Information

• Apply for PreK and Early Head Start
• Best Practices
• Daily Schedules in an FCPS Early Childhood Classroom
• Early Childhood Child Find
• Early Childhood Curriculum and Instructional Resources
• Early Childhood Portrait of a Graduate
• Families as Partners
• Fairfax Early Childhood PartnershipsHigh Quality Support in Early Childhood
• Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) Program
• Nutrition and Health Education in Early Childhood
• School Readiness and Transition to Kindergarten
• Self-regulation Skills in Early Childhood
• Special Education Resources

Community Resources

• Potty Training Resources Padlet: Books, videos, apps, articles, tools, and more all to assist with potty training. Helpful for toddlers and for children with special needs.

Parent Resource Center Workshops on Youtube

• Less Policing, More Parenting How to Improve Your Child’s Executive Functioning Skills Without All of the Arguements
   
• How to Improve Your Child’s Executive Functioning Skills Without All the Arguments This School Year
• Supporting Executive Functions at Home
• Setting the Stage for Behavior: Routines, procedures, & Expectations
• Challenging Behaviors: Prevention Strategies and Teaching Self-Control
• Challenging Behaviors: ABCs of Behavior & How to Respond
• Behavior Happens for a Reason: Behavior as COmmunication
• Strategies for Increasing Replacement Behaviors
• Tips to See an Increase in Replacement Behaviors
• Tips to See an Increase in Following Directions
• Effectively Communicating with your Student
• Maximizing Student Independence

FCPS Links

• 5-4-3-2-1 Early Childhood Tips for Today: Executive Function
• Assistive Technology and Executive Functioning
• Early Childhood Executive Functions

Community Resources

• Unstuck and On Target! ​​​​​​This series of videos is designed to give practical parenting advice that they can immediately use to support their neurodivergent child’s executive functions. These engaging videos feature parents sharing their real-life wisdom and experts who give practical ideas and easy-to-understand explanations. If you have a child with ADHD, Learning Disabilities, or Autism, these videos will help you reduce conflict and turn can’t’s into cans.

  • Understanding Executive Functioning
  • Motivation: How Everyone in Your Family Can Get More of What They Want
  • What do We Do When What We Want Seems Impossible
  • Break It Down
  • Compromising So Everyone Wins
  • Is it a "Can't" or a "Won't"?
  • The goal, The Why, The Plan
  • Managing Intense Feelings
  • Plan A/Plan B & Big Deal, Little Deal
  • Talk Less, Write it Down
  • Expect the Unexpected and Manage Disappointment
  • Preventing Overload

• Videos de funcionamiento ejecutivo de UnStuck y OnTarget en español Esta serie de videos está diseñada para dar consejos prácticos de crianza que pueden usar inmediatamente para apoyar las funciones ejecutivas de su hijo neurodivergent.  Estos videos atractivos presentan a los padres compartiendo su sabiduría de la vida real y expertos que dan ideas prácticas y explicaciones fáciles de entender. Si tienes un hijo con TDAH, discapacidades de aprendizaje o autismo, estos videos te ayudarán a reducir el conflicto y convertirás las latas en latas.
  • Entender Funcionamiento Ejecutivo
  • ¿Que hacemos cuando lo que queremos parece ser imposible?
  • ¿Es un "no poder" o un "no querer"?
  • Anticipar lo Inesperado y Lidiar con la Decepción

Parent Resource Center Workshops on Youtube

• Strategies to Diffuse Unexpected Behavior
• Tips to Improving Your Parenting Long Game
• Challenging Behaviors: ABCs of Behavior and How to Respond
• Seven Steps to Behavior Success at Home
• How to Subscribe to a School Calendar
• Setting the Stage for School Success

FCPS Links: General Information

• Family Engagement Resources
• Family Engagement in Title I Schools
• Family Literacy
• Immigration Family Reunification Program
• Information for Homeless Families
• In-Person Tutors and Tutoring
• Online Tutoring
• Kinship Care Support
• Library Resources
• Parent Information Lines
• Resources for Military Families
• School to Home Communication Tips
• School Year 2018-2019 Family Engagement Survey Results
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The Gun Violence Prevention Resources webpage has information about the following topics:

• secure firearm storage,
• modeling responsible behavior around firearms,
• asking about secure storage practices in other homes,
• recognizing the role of firearms in suicide, and
• seeking help for a child who could be a threat to themselves or others.

Parent Resource Center Workshops on Youtube

• Survive and Thrive with Virtual Learning-Practical Strategies to Make At-Home Learning Work for You
• Motivating Responsible Behavior When Your Kids are Home 24/7 with Rachel Bailey
• How to Keep Distracted Kids in “Study Mode” (Even If They Have ADHD)
• Zoomed Out? 5 Strategies to Get Even the Most Reluctant Kids Focused, Engaged, and Motivated!

FCPS Links

• FCPS COVID-19 Website 
  • how to talk with your child about the Coronavirus
  • managing stress, healthy coping
  • community and emergency mental health resources.
• Student Voice: Coronavirus: Video clips of FCPS students sharing their thoughts and tips on coping with Coronavirus. 
• Healthy Minds Blog

Community Resources

• Fairfax County Wellness Resources During the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Keeping Your Loved Ones Safe Series

    • Staying Safe at Home

    • Has COVID-19 Put Children at Risk in Their Own Homes?

    • Know How to Identify and Report Abuse, Exploitation, or Neglect of Older Adults

  • Fairfax-Falls Church Community Services Board (CSB): Help for Mental Health, Substance Abuse, and/or Developmental Disabilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Start Simple with MyPlate: Food Planning During the Coronavirus Pandemic

  • Be Active During COVID-19

  • Managing Life at Home During the COVID-19 Outbreak

  • Tips for Parents and Caregivers during Covid-19

Parent Resource Center Workshops on Youtube

• Military-Connected Students and School Transitions
• Preparing for the Unexpected: Challenges of Military Families
• Schools and Military-Connected Students: Supportive Programs and Practices

FCPS Links

• Military Families: Planning your Arrival to Fairfax County
• Military Families: Student Registration-A 5-Step Process
• Military Families: Preparing your Move from Fairfax County
• Academic Planning for Military Families
• Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity foir Military Families
• Identification of Military Connected Students
• Impact Aid Student-Parent Survey
• Resident on Military Installation - Student Transfer Application
• Resources for Military Families
• Resources for Military Families with Children Requiring Special Accommodations
• Social, Emotional & Behavioral Supports
• Fort Belvoir School Support Services

Community Resources 

• Military Connected Families: padlet with resources to support military connected families.

Parent Resource Center Workshops on Youtube

What Parents Need to Know about 504 Plans

FCPS Links

• Elementary School Accommodations
• Middle School Accommodations
• High School Accommodations
• Section 504 Information
• Section 504: Identification, Evaluation, and Reevaluation Procedures
• Section 504: Forms, Related Documents, and Resources
• Section 504: Impartial Hearings
• Section 504: Knowledgeable Committees and 504 Plans
• Section 504: Purpose and Fact Sheet
• Section 504: Plans for Students with Dyslexia
• Section 504: Procedures Manual (PDF)
• Working together through the 504 process.
• Nondiscrimination / Americans with Disabilities Statement

Community Resources

• Special Education and 504 Resources Padlet: Find resources to support your child.
• Section 504 and ADA: Protecting Children with Disabilties from Discrimination
• Parent and Educator Resource Guide to Section 504 in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools 
   

Schoology is the FCPS's new Learning Management System (LMS). It is a learning space that supports instructional practices aligned to FCPS’ learning model and helps students reach the Portrait of a Graduate goals.

FCPS Links

Videos

• How do I log into Schoology?
• How do I see my child's Schoology account?
• What can I see in my child's account?
• What can I do in my Schoology parent account
• What will I find in my Schoology parent account?

Support

• Parent/Guardian Schoology support page
• Student Schoology support page
• Welcome FCPS Parents and Guardians to Schoology Parent Resource Kit

Schoology Support: Need Help with Schoology? Click on the language below to see QR codes and links to FCPS support pages.

• العربية (Arabic)
• 中文 (Chinese)
• English
• فارسی (Farsi)
• 한국어 (Korean)
• Español (Spanish)
• اردو (Urdu)
• Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)

Parent Resource Center Workshops on Youtube

• School-Based Physical Therapy (PT) and Occupational Therapy (OT) Family Support
• ADHD: Does Gender Matter
• Assistive Technology to Support Executive Functioning
• Autism Safety Considerations
• Introduction to Special Education
• Strategies for Implementing Communication Device in your Home
• Tech Tools to Support Struggling Readers
• Transition IEPs
• Twice Exceptional Learners in FCPS
• Using Technology to Support Reading and Writing While Encouraging Independence

FCPS Links: General Special Education

• Abbreviations and Acronyms
• Disability Categories
• Forms Related to Special Education
• Special Education Handbook for Parents
  • Arabic
  • English
  • Korean
  • Spanish
  • Vietnamese
• Special Education Update Newsletter
• Students' Rights and Responsibilities Guidance for Parents of Students with Disabilities

FCPS Links: Special Education Instruction

• Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM)
• Assessing Special Populations in Middle School
• Assessing Special Populations in High School
• Assessment Options for Students with Disabilities
• Guidelines on the Use of Physical Restraint and Seclusion (PDF)
• Special Education Instruction

FCPS Links: Additional Services and Supports

• Adapted Curriculum, PreK-12
• Adapted Physical Education Services
• Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Program
• Assistive Technology Services
• Behavior Intervention Services
• Bus Route Information for Special Needs Students
• Career and Transition Services
• Extended School Year ESY Services
• Occupational Therapy Services
• Physical Therapy Services
• Services for Students Who are Blind or Visually Impaired
• Services for Students Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
• Speech and Language Services

FCPS Links: Special Education Procedural

• Special Education Procedural Support
• Procedural Support Liaison by the pyramid of schools
• Special Education Procedures for Identification of Students with Disabilities

Community Resources

• Special Education & 504 Resources Padlet: Support Guides, organizations, workshops, websites, and reading material to learn about disabilities, your rights, and resources that are available to support your child.

Parent Resource Center Workshops on Youtube

• A Conversation about Compassion Fatigue
• Reducing the Stigma around Mental Health Challenges and How to Support Children in Asking for Help
• Rewriting your Parenting Story
• Building Healthy Relationships
• Depression in Children and Adolescents
• Helping Your Child Cope with Stress
• Knowing the Signs: Substance Abuse and Today's Youth
• Parenting Through Challenging Times
• Raising Children with High Self-Esteem
• Restorative Justice
• Supporting Anxious Children
• Why Won't My Child Go to School?
• Yoga and Mindfulness: Supporting Your Children's Social and Emotional Wellness
• Zones of Regulation
• Zoomed Out? 5 Strategies to Get Even the Most Reluctant Kids Focused, Engaged, and Motivated!

FCPS Links: Programs

• Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Programs
• Bullying Prevention and Intervention
• Gang Prevention Program
• Restorative Justice

FCPS Links: Crisis Intervention

• Crisis Intervention Services
• Difference between a Crisis and a Concern
• How to Help a Friend in Crisis
• Mental Health Resources and Emergency Services Information

FCPS Links: Wellness

• Family Support Partner Services
• Mental Health and Resiliency
• School Counseling Services
• School Health and Wellness
• School Health Services
• School Psychology Services
• Social Work Services
• Student Voice: Health and Wellness
• Sleep Health
• Student Wellness: Tips and Strategies

FCPS Links Characteristic Specific

• 10 Tips to Ease Test Anxiety
• Eating Disorders
• How Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Impact Our Kids
• The Challenge of School Refusal
• Understanding Eating Disorders
• What Works for Treating Anxiety in Youth?

Parent Resource Center Workshops on Youtube

• Understanding the Transition Individual Education Program IEP
• Post Secondary Education
• High School Success: A Strategic Transition from MS to HS
• Thinking Outside the Box - Creative Postsecondary Employment Options for Parents of Students with Disabilities
• Transition IEPs
• Exploring Post-Secondary Options through the College & Career Center
• Into Adulthood: The Journey from Dependence to Independence

FCPS Links: General Transition 

• Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID)
• Career and Transition Services
• College and Career Planning
• College Fair and College Night
• Employment and Transition Services
• Career Assessment Services for Secondary Students Receiving Special Education or Alternative Education Services. 
• Postsecondary Options for Students Earning an Applied Studies Diploma
• Transition Planning for students with an IEP

FCPS Links: Transition Education

• Career Instruction in FCPS
• Career Education Programming for students aged 18-22
• College Partnership Program (CPP)
• Early Identification Program (EIP)
• Education for Employment (EFE) High School Course
• Education for Employment for the Office (EFEO) High School Course
• Job Coach Services 
• Pathway to the Baccalaureate and Pathway Connection
• Secondary Transition to Employment Program (STEP) Post-Secondary Program
• Work Awareness and Transition (WAT) Middle and High School Course
• Transition to Independence Program (TIP) Post-Secondary Program
• Work-Based Learning Continuum

Parent Resource Center Workshops on Youtube

Twice Exceptional Students: What Parents Need to Know

FCPS Links

• FCPS 2e Handbook and Resources [Printable PDFs: العربية (Arabic) | English | 한국어 (Korean) | Español (Spanish)]
  • Charcteristics of Twice-Exceptional (2e) Learners
  • Common Misconceptions about Twice-exceptional (2e) Learners
  • School-based Intervention Programs for Behavior and Wellness
  • School to Home Communication Tips
  • Strategies to Support Homework and Classwork for 2e learners
  • Supporting Twice-Exceptional (2e) Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Supporting Social-Emotional Needs of Twice-Exceptional (2e) Students
  • Twice Exceptional Learners Handbook Introduction Video August 2019

Community Resources

• Twice Exceptional: Definition, Characteristics & Identification
• NAGC’s report on twice exceptionality
• Finding the Appropriate Educational Environment for Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Children
• Strategies for Teaching Twice-exceptional Students
• How to Use a Strengths-Based Approach for Twice Exceptional Children
• Transitioning Twice Exceptional Children into Adulthood
• How Teachers Can Support Twice Exceptional Students
• Wrightslaw
  • Ensuring Gifted Children with Disabilities Receive Appropriate Services: Call for Comprehensive Assessment. 
  • How Can I Fight for a Gifted Child? 
  • School Says, "No Advanced Classes for Kids with IEPs?" 
  • Tips for Parents: Meeting the Needs of Twice Exceptional Children.
  • Gifted But Learning Disabled: A Puzzling Paradox.