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Center for the Improvement of Child Caring

Center for the Improvement of Child Caring is a parenting and parenting education association that works to increase the likelihood that every child is raised effectively and humanely and offers parenting skill-building programs and numerous ways to bring family contribution into childhood care and educational systems.

Family Support America

Family Support America is a national resource that dedicates itself to providing information and support for families and parents regarding child abuse, alcoholism, adoption, disciplining children, divorce, work and other family related concerns.

Global Family Research Project

The Global Family Research Project is an independent, entrepreneurial nonprofit organization that supports all families and communities in helping children find success in and out of school. We create a worldwide exchange of ideas to further the understanding and implementation of anywhere, anytime learning for all.

National Center for Family and Community Connections with Schools

SEDL's National Center for Family and Community Connections with Schools links people with research-based information and resources that they can use to effectively connect schools, families, and communities. The Center provides three primary types of resources to assist researchers, practitioners, families and community members with finding and utilizing research based information people need to take action and make connections between schools, families, and communities.

National Center for Fathering

National Center for Fathering is a nonprofit, scientific and education organization that offers research-based training for men in fathering situations through seminars and small-group training, a daily radio-show and turn-key easily implemented fathering programs.

National PIRC

The National Parental Information and Resource Center’s (PIRC) list of 62 PIRCs by state.

National PTA

National PTA is a resource created to organize and support parent involvement in children’s education through family-school partnerships and information on getting ready for the new school year, healthy lifestyles and after-school programs.

Parents for Public Schools

Parents for Public Schools offers a network for parents to engage in school improvement efforts at the local, state and national levels and works to develop parent leadership by arming parents with information about how schools should and do operate and motivation to act on behalf of all the students.

Parent Power Handbook

A handbook outlining what parents can do to support children's learning at all ages -- babies and toddlers, preschoolers, elementary school, middle school, and high school.

Project Appleseed

Project Appleseed is the national campaign for public school improvement aiming to evaluate and improve parent-school partnerships through providing a parent-school involvement checklist, parental involvement report card, recent news and videos on family events, family engagement, student success, and education funding.

PTO Today

PTO Today is a resource aimed at helping parent leaders make schools great through step-by-step tips to setting up new parent groups at schools, fundraising, building parent involvement, and planning school family nights while offering interactive message boards and file exchanges.

Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL)

SEDL helps bring together families, communities, and schools to support students’ academic achievement. They work strategically at the state and federal levels to support efforts to improve parent involvement and partnerships among schools, families, and communities. They develop and disseminate research-based resources on building family and community partnerships that are focused on student success.

Teaching for Change

Teaching for Change works to build social justice in the classroom by encouraging professional development and parent organizations and sponsoring the Cross City Parent Leadership Initiative that acts as an opportunity for parent coordinators and parents to gain the tools to facilitate effective family-school programs.

Webinar Series: Achieving Excellence and Innovation in Family, School, and Community Engagement

This webinar series is an opportunity for stakeholders representing national, regional, and local organizations to learn about family, school, and community, engagement research, best practices from the field, and new innovations that are making a difference in school improvement and student learning.

Alderleaf Regional College

Alderleaf Wilderness College is a nature education center and wilderness survival school. This section of the site provides articles and information on outdoor education curriculum, wilderness leadership, and nature-based teaching.

Back Country Attitude

Back Country Attitude is a website that provides fee curriculum and lesson plans for outdoor education. Within the lesson plans you can find games, worksheets and more!

Bradford Woods

Bradford Woods is an organization committed to improving the quality of life for people of all abilities by using its unique outdoor setting to provide education, therapy, and recreation. This document shows the curriculum for adventure education.

Children & Nature Network

The Children & Nature Network offers resources for parents and teachers to learn more about what outdoor education is. The section of the site give resources to pdfs and videos that can help with an outdoor educational curriculum.

Dawn Publications

Dawn Publications is dedicated to inspiring children to have a deeper understanding and appreciation for all life on Earth. The part of the site gives free curriculum for teachers and parents to use alongside certain entertaining books!

Education Outside

Education Outside, a nonprofit organization, produced these engaging environmental activities for K-5 students. Although they're designed to be used during the school year, many of them can be easily adapted for a summer afternoon in the backyard.