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Communicating with Your Child’s Teacher Summary
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For parents: interacting with teachers, self-awareness about involvement, overcoming isolation
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Coaching children on approaching teachers
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Student and teacher: handling adversity, improving poor relationships
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Keeping up with your child, talking about bad days
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Establishing Routines Summary
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Importance of a routine for a student learner
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Minimizing distraction through routine
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Getting home and school day prep routines
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Rewarding good routines, encouragement and praise
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Adding and evaluating behaviors and time-management
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Structure, spontaneity, daily family activities
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Helping Young Learners Read Summary
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Keys to reading, visual descriptions for young children
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English language challenges, reading challenges for ages 5-7
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Dyslexia, cognitive and physical impediments
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How parents can avoid rushing reading time
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Tablet readers versus physical books
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Keeping books in the home to promote literacy
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Older Student Literacy Challenges Summary
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Reintroducing incarcerated youth to reading, fostering receptiveness
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Out-of-habit reading students versus lacking skills
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Student-selected reading material, finding your inner narrator
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Improving skills, reading practice, alleviating stress
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Avoiding the distraction of screens
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Struggling parents teaching students to read
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Testing & Assessment Summary
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Meaning of assessment, beyond testing
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Recent changes in Florida standardized tests
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Missing skills affecting performance, test-taking skills versus base ability
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Teaching to the test versus what students need to know
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Advice for parents of gifted students who do not test well
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Bright Future scholarship, SAT, ACT, determining alternate paths
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Students with Special Needs Summary
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Meaning of and correct way to think of special needs
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Ongoing accommodation versus developing skills
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Identifying/differentiating special needs from ordinary struggle
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Requesting evaluation, the process, next steps
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Changes for the student at school and at home
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Handling difficult feelings and fear of stigma, embracing help and hope
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Preparing Your Student for College Summary
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Advice for students entering college in the fall, prep tips
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When high school came easy, but college does not, anticipating changes and higher demands
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Lifestyle changes with living on campus, surprises, college freedom, social life
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Advice for high-intensity STEM majors, discovering the right career
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Office hours, building relationships with professors
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Understanding graduation requirements, college today
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