A parent toolkit may be just what you need with the school year in full swing and parent/teacher conferences right around the corner. Thankfully, Mary Mazzoni features the resource you’re looking for at her website, Life After IEPs wesite.

Parent Toolkit from the NCLD

The kit is a free resource created by the National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD). It includes the following items:

• Building a Good Relationship with Your Child’s Teacher
• Essential Skills for Becoming Your Child’s Advocate
• Advocating for your School-Aged Child
• Making the Most of Your Parent-Teacher Conference
• Creating Great Expectations for an Effective Meeting worksheet
• Related Resources

Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it?

Parent Toolkit Works All Year Long

My apologies for not finding this resource before school started as many of the resources would have been valuable then. But many of them can be used throughout the school year. For example, here’s a peek at what’s in the Building a Good Relationship with your Child’s Teacher section:

• Connecting Before the School Year Starts
• Maintaining the Connection During the School Year
• Remembering that the Teacher is a Person First
• Sharing Your Appreciation with Others
• Ending the School Year on a Positive Note

Similarly, the section about parent-teacher conferences walks parents through the planning process before the conference. It then moves on to the conference and finishes at home after the conference.

Parent Toolkit Download

Just click here to download the Back-to-School Kit for Parents of Students with Learning Disabilities.

What’s in Your Toolkit?

How do you prepare for parent-teacher conferences? What kinds of tools do you use to make the most of each school year? Which items from the NCLD document are you planning to use? Leave a comment!

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