Resources for Educating and Involving Your Parent Community

Thank you so much for visiting our site! You came to the right place for resources that will help your school work harmoniously to educate parents and empower students.

District-Level Education Resources

Parent Night Slides

What Do Mathematicians Do? handout

Jo Boaler's Advice for Parents handout

School-Level Education Resources

Back to School Night Slides

Student-led Conference Trimester Reflection Sheet

Student-led Conference Goal Sheet (adapted from AVID)

An In-Depth Look at School-Level Education Resources

Invitation to Family Math Night

Student Invitations

Grade-level Table Signs

Information about Family Math Night for Teachers

Kinder-1st: Math Game: Sum and Difference War

2nd-3rd: Math Game: Loops and Groups

5th-6th: Math Game: Spoons (Game Cards and Directions)

Inside Mathematics: Problem of Month

Well Played books (K-2 book, 3-5 book, 6-8 book)

Math Games (book)

Bridges (1st edition game instructions)

K-5 Math Teaching Resources (website)

Future Reading & Other Resources to Explore

Inside Mathematics (website for Problem of the Month)

K-5 Math Teaching Resources (website for math games and other teacher tools)

Jo Boaler: What’s Math Got to Do With It (book) and YouCubed

Math Learning Center's Parent Website

Partnering with Parents (book)

Principals to Action (book)

A Parent’s Guide to Understanding Math Education in Today’s Schools (book)

Sensible Mathematics: A Guide for School Leaders in the Era of Common Core State Standards (book)

EAI Education (for SmartPals and other awesome resources!)

A Important Note about the Links Above:

Some of these hyperlinks link to Google Slides and Google Docs.

These links will give you permission to “view.” To edit the linked items, you’ll need to do the following steps:

    • Once you open a document in one of the links above, click “File”

    • Click “Make a Copy”

    • Enter a new document name

      • You can choose to “Share” it with other people during this step, as well

    • Your editable copy will appear in your “My Drive”

Questions? Successes? Please contact us!

Barb Blanke at DrBarbBlanke@gmail.com or @PupProf

Kimberly Kelly at HiMsKelly@gmail.com or @HiMsKelly