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These AI tip sheets for parents are useful to educators too. While AI has the potential to support learning, it can also put kids’ development, safety, and autonomy at risk. Avoiding these risks requires empowering parents to help their kids manage AI use and strengthen the skills that AI can undermine. Brookings Institute created a series of tip sheets for parents of kids aged 10-14. This series focuses on 10 core skills kids need to become resilient learners in an AI-driven world. Each tip sheet offers bite-sized information about AI and its impact on kids, highlights what parents might notice as they observe AI use at home and school, and provides conversation starters and activities families can use together.
(Tip sheets will be added on a rolling basis over the coming months, visit this link for updates)
For more resources, visit our Digital Wellness Resource Page.
Ohio Statewide Family Engagement Center
The 2026 Summit is dedicated to the understanding that the most extraordinary breakthroughs in education begin with simple, intentional shifts in how we lead. By empowering educators and community leaders to prioritize everyday authentic connections, accessible communications, and support for student learning, we transform everyday actions into lifelong success for every student.
The Family Engagement Leadership Summit is a professional learning event for those dedicated to advancing effective family-school-community partnerships, K-12. The Summit brings research to action providing schools, families, and community partners with the tools they need to work together. If you are a teacher, leader, family liaison, parent, caregiver, or community partner looking for opportunities to build better family-school partnerships, this virtual summit on Zoom is for you!
Save the Date: September 18, 2026
Registration will open in Spring 2026.
General Admission: $99*
*Check Eligibility for Discounts
Within Reach: Multi-Tiered Family Engagement Principal Institute
Ohio Statewide Family Engagement center
Within Reach is an intensive, in-person institute for principals who want to move their school past basic family engagement events and create a system that actually connects with every family. In today’s educational landscape, true partnership is the key to student success. This seminar transforms family engagement by first centering families' needs and preferences and then planning responsive school strategies to create a robust, research-based framework that reaches every family.
Dates: Tuesday, July 21 to Thursday, July 23, 2026.
Schedule: 8:45 AM to 4:00 PM, with a break for lunch on your own.
Location: Center on Education and Training for Employment, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Virtual Sessions sponsored by OCECD
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Are you interested in providing support to other families who have a loved one with a disability or special healthcare need? Who was that person for you?
Apply to become an Ohio P2P Support Parent!
Ohio P2P is an evidence-based statewide parent support program that matches parents, siblings, self-advocates, foster parents, grandparents, etc. who have family members of any age, with a disability or special healthcare need, to an experienced, trained, volunteer support parent.
Training is comprised of two one-hour Zoom sessions and a set of four online modules to complete on your own during the weeks in between. Total time commitment for the training is around 4 hours, including the Zoom sessions.
The two one-hour Zoom sessions are held on the first and fourth Thursdays of each month (except December). You may choose the time that best fits your schedule, either 12 pm-1 pm OR 6:30 pm-7:30 pm.
Please join us as we build this network. No one should feel alone. Ever.
Apply at: Ohio P2P Support Parent Trainee Application Questions?
Contact us at OhioP2P@cchmc.org, 513-636-1245
https://www.ucucedd.org/ohio-parent-to-parent-p2p/
Stark/Tuscarawas County ASPIES Events
Stark/Tuscarawas County ASPIES Events
The Stark/Tuscarawas Counties Branch of ASPIES is hosting a full lineup of family-friendly, homeschool-inclusive, and acceptance-fueled events over the next five months. Please feel free to share these flyers and events with anyone you feel may benefit.
The best way to stay up to date with everything happening at ASPIES is to sign up for our email listserv at aspies.org or by reaching out directly to brittney@aspies.org.
Here’s what’s coming up:
May
STEM & Creativity Day
May 30 | 1–3 PM | Faith Baptist Church, Bolivar
Click here to access a folder with a flyer for each upcoming event.
Self-Advocacy
Self-advocacy, what is it and how can you start practicing advocating for yourself? The video, Self-Advocacy Is for Everyone by the Exceptional Children's Assistance Center, illustrates how individuals can learn to speak up for themselves, make informed decisions, and actively participate in shaping their own lives.
State Expansion 211
Families across Ohio now have even greater access to support through the expansion of Ohio 211. This free, 24/7 service connects individuals to local resources such as food assistance, housing support, healthcare, transportation, and more. With new statewide expansion efforts, all 88 counties will soon have access, making it easier than ever for families to find help when they need it most. Simply dial 211 to get connected to services in your community.
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