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2010 2011 Calendar of Events

25 Industrial Park Road

Middletown, CT 06457

(860) 632-1485 (800) 842-8678www.ctpirc.org

The CT Parent Information and Resource Center

is open

Monday - Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Caring professionals at CT PIRC can give you the

information you need to help your child succeed

in school. All calls are confidential.

Date Session LocationFriday,

September 24, 2010

Annual Faith, Families &

Schools Conference

Crowne Plaza Hotel,

Cromwell

Monday & Tuesday,November 8 & 9, 2010

Raising Readers Parent ClubFacilitator Training:

Session A: Ages Birth-8

CREC,Hartford

Tuesday,

November 9, 2010

Lee y sers

(Read and You Will Be):

Grades K-3

SERC Library

Community Room,

Middletown

Friday,

November 19, 2010

How Welcoming Is Your School?

Session A: Grades PreK-12

SERC Library

Community Room,

Middletown

Thursday,

December 9, 2010

Schools and Families: Better

Together Session A: Grades K-8

SERC Classroom,

Middletown

Saturday,

December 11, 2010

Raising A Reader:

Everybody Cooks Rice

SERC Library

Community Room,

Middletown

Tuesday,

January 11, 2011

How Welcoming Is Your School?

Session B: Grades PreK-12

SERC Library

Community Room,

Middletown

Saturday,

March 26, 2011

How to Raise a Learner

Session B: Grades 3-8

SERC Library

Community Room,

Middletown

Wednesday & Thursday,April 13 & 14, 2011

Raising Readers Parent ClubFacilitator Training

Session B: Ages Birth-8

SERC LibraryCommunity Room,

Middletown

Thursday,

May 12, 2011

Schools and Families:

Better Together

Session B: Grades K-8

SERC Library

Community Room,

Middletown

To register for any of the above events, please visit www.ctserc.org.For personal assistance, please contact Bianca Irizarry, ext. 216,

or Suequanna Lewis, ext. 288, at (860) 632-1485.

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The Connecticut School-Family-Community Partnerships Project

(SFCP) helps educators, parents, and community members form

alliances by providing training, topical workshops, a newsletter, and a

collection of books, videos, and other resources. The project isdesigned to promote policies and programs at the local level and to

increase public awareness of the positive impact of school-family-

community partnerships on student learning. This work is guided by

the principle that all families have strengths and play a critical role in

their childrens educational success.

Led by the CT State Department of Education, SERC and the CT

Parent Information and Resource Center, the Connecticut School-

Family-Community Partnerships Project has been working to increase

family and community involvement since 1995. The project provides a

variety of professional development activities such as the How

Welcoming Is Your School? workshop.

The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965,currently known as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), requires

that parents receive district report cards specifying how students have

performed on standardized tests at both school and district levels.

Student performance is broken down by student subcategory groups

such as ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disability, and limited English

proficiency status. CT PIRC helps parents understand their rights

under NCLB and offers professional development and resources to

schools and faith/community organizations.

School-Family-Community Partnerships

No Child Left Behind

Family literacy promotes the literacy of both parents and children as a

learning team. Professionals in education, as well as other health and

human services, can help families create literate home environments

that promote childrens success.

Collaboration among families, schools, and communities has powerful

possibilities in promoting childrens literacy. Meaningful and authentic

collaboration leads to greater opportunities for engaging children in

culturally relevant literacy. CT PIRC offers a series of workshops such

as Raising Readers, Lee y sers, and How to Raise a Learner,

which celebrates the traditions and diversity of families in ways that

enhance students literacy instruction through music, poetry, and lively

discourse. Our literacy workshops teach participants how to make

inter- and intra-cultural connections for students during literacyinstruction and how to select and use resources that support all

children.

The Faith, Families & Schools Conference is an opportunity for faithand worship leaders, educators, and families to come together on

behalf of the children of Connecticut. Participants will share ideas

about the practices that help families support student learning and

hear about new activities that can be incorporated into the rich fabric

of the faith and worship community.

Research has demonstrated again and again that family engagement is

one of the major indicators of student success. Schools across the

country are discovering that faith-based leaders and community groups

are often very effective in enhancing family involvement and are key

allies in improving educational outcomes for all students.

Faith, Families & Schools Conference

Literacy