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The Parent Resources section includes a growing collection of resources for families looking to support their children’s well being and academic success. Parent involvement is critical in developing strong home to school connections. A note, these resources offer a point of view and are not exhaustive in nature. MEND encourages families to continue to pursue their own personal inquiry on topics of interest or join in available MEND learning opportunities.
WELLNESS RESOURCES
Student wellness resources aim to provide families with information, strategies, and approaches to support school to home connections. For families looking for additional in school or community resources, we encourage reaching out to your child’s teacher and/or school administration, or visiting our community partners page.
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Mindfulness Notebook
The mental health and wellness of our children has most certainly impacted over the last year. Children are all different however, and handle stress differently. If you are looking for some at home tips for how to help your child cope with stress, visit this resource for some practical strategies to apply at home.
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Stress Strategies for Young Children
This resource, compiled by the Kawartha Pine Ridge DIstrict School Board and designed by kidshavestresstoo.org, is a quick and easy guide of parent look fors of stress and follow up strategies and tools to address stress. This beginners guide offers a valuable insight of stress in young children.
ACADEMICRESOURCES
Our academic resources section aims to provide families with current and relevant information related to areas of the curriculum, approaches to teaching and learning in the classroom, our ESL department and Inclusive Student Services Department (Special Education), and general topics of interest related to education.
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Translate Google Classroom
Using a Chrome Extension
Is English your second language? Your child’s second language? Learn how to translate Google Classroom using a Chrome extension. Learn in your home language. This video will help English Language Learners use Google Classroom to its full benefit.
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Special Education
Parent/Guardian Guide
The DDSB Parent/Guardian Guide to Special Education provides families with an overview of the most important information of the step by step process school’s use when supporting students with identified learning and well being needs. Families should familiarize themselves with this informational document before attending an IPRC (Individual Program Review Committee) meeting for their child. If you have questions about this document, you should reach out to your child’s classroom teacher, school resource teacher, or administration before the meeting.
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DDSB Inclusive Student Services
(Special Education)
If you have a child with special needs, then the DDSB’s Inclusive Student Services web page is for you. Equip yourself as a parent with the knowledge to ask your child’s school the right questions in order to best support your child’s learning needs. This site offers information about the identification process, resources and supports, as well as special education class placements. If you should need additional information particular to your child’s needs, reach out to your child’s teacher, the school’s resource teacher, or your administration.
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Google Platform
Workshop for Parents
Are you looking to become a parent expert at Google Classroom? Do you want to learn how to use translation apps? Interested in a step by step tutorial hosted by the DDSB ESL and Information Technology Departments? Watch this video to build your understanding of online learning tools!
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Trending in Education: Be in the Know, provides the latest and most up to date in terms of current topics of interest in the field of education and parenting. Have your finger on the pulse of what others, including what your children are talking about right now.
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Racialized Student Achievement
Gaps Are A Red Alert
In this edition of The Conversation, Author Vidya Shah offers a thoughtful account of how education systems in Ontario have impacted the experiences of racialized students from both a well being and academic point of view. Shah discusses ways in which schools and school boards need to attend to the unique realities of racialized students such that all learners can achieve success.
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Being Black in Canada
This CBC series explores and dismantles myths and stereotypes associated to Canadian Black History. Reporter Asha Tomlinson interviews compelling voices in the black community belonging to those engaged in the work of rewriting a history belonging to those who have experienced it. A great watch for families beginning to have conversations about anti black racism with their children.
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Teaching Truth and
Reconciliation in Canada
Author’s Linda Morcom and Kate Freeman, provide readers with a ready snapshot of how schools and educators are currently supporting the work of Truth and Reconciliation as settlers. Morcom and Freeman identify the necessary need to act in acknowledging and repairing harms experienced by Indigenous communities (94 Calls to Action), but they also highlight the work non indigenous populations (including immigrant populations) must engage in first themselves. As a parent this read is a must as a beginning step in helping our children understand the responsibilities to act on Truth and Reconciliation as settlers.
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Hair Love
Hair is an Oscar Award winning short film that tells the story of an African American father learning how to do his daughter’s hair for the first time. This loving story of a father and daughter is a wonderful example for parents of reflective and responsive stories that are available to support the identity of our racialized children.
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Black History in Canada
Referenced from the Canadian Encyclopedia, this resource provides a general overview of some of the histories of black communities within the growing landscape of Canada. Note this is not a full and wholesome account of black history in Canada and should only be considered a starting point for families.
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Implicit Bias: Peanut Butter,
Jelly, and Racism
Parents! Get in on the conversation! What is implicit bias, how is it different from racism? How does implicit bias impact our children, their experiences both in and out of school, and as parents how can we be aware of our own implicit bias and how it impacts us as we seek equity and inclusion?