Nurturing Connections Through Conscious Discipline: Embracing ‘Connect Before Correct’
Partnering with North Country Education Services, we provided an online program for 33 parents/caregivers to learn about Conscious Discipline. This series includes 10 video lessons lasting about 10 hours, focusing on tools to manage emotions. Prioritizing empathy and listening helps parents connect with their children, fostering trust and communication. The approach encourages positive discipline techniques for self-control, cooperation, and social-emotional skills in children. Through Conscious Discipline, parents not only improve relationships with their kids but also support their overall development for success. One valuable tip is “Connect Before Correct,” which stresses connecting with your child emotionally before addressing misbehavior. This bond helps children feel understood, making them more open to guidance and discipline while strengthening the parent-child relationship.
Navigating the Spring Slump: Prioritizing Attendance for Student Success
Attendance Works is a great resource for parents, caregivers, and educators to learn about and combat the issue of chronic absenteeism. Chronic absence — missing 10 percent or more of school days due to absence for any reason—excused, unexcused absences and suspensions—can translate into students having difficulty learning to read by the third grade, achieving in middle school, and graduating from high school. This month, we are highlighting the importance of attendance and the need to address “Spring Slump.” Spring Slump is the downward trend of daily attendance which starts around spring break and continues through the end of the school year. Our tip this month is to finish off the year strong by sending your students to school every day, as long as they are healthy, and encouraging them to show up to class when school is in session. Every day of school is an important opportunity for students to learn and connect to peers and their teachers.
Combat Summer Learning Loss to Reduce the Summer Slide
This month, we’re focusing on summer learning loss, a persistent challenge for parents worried about their children falling behind academically during school breaks. New data shows that summer learning makes up a big part of the educational support spending from the American Rescue Plan, with districts set to spend $5.8 billion on summer programs by September 2024.
Survey data from 2022 found that 70% of districts are expanding their summer offerings due to the pandemic. Summer programs reinforce academics and also provide socialization, mentoring, and new experiences. Regular attendance in summer programming is a barrier to success: Only 13% of students in the surveyed districts took part in summer programs. To tackle this problem, it’s essential to involve families. This edition offers FREE resources to help parents and caregivers boost their child’s academic performance for the next school year at home.