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SNAPSHOT: When parents are effective, children do better at school and in life in general. Parents are the first and foremost teachers of your students. Unfortunately, the parents of some of your most frustrating and challenging kids sometimes do not have the parenting skills they need to be your partner in helping a student achieve and stay on track.

A recent study by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation says it's a myth that many parents of high-risk students aren't interested in being involved in their children's educations. They just don't know how to do it or how to do it effectively. Many dropouts say if only their parents had known they were in trouble at school, it might have made the difference in keeping them from dropping out (Silent Epidemic, 2006).

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Join Kerby T. Alvy, Ph.D., a child psychologist and one of the nation's most experienced and respected experts on the role of parenting in learning, for a webinar on parent training in the schools. Kerby believes schools can best help parents by providing them with authoritative information, education and skill training to do the best parenting job possible. Help your parents become the academic coach you need at home to reinforce your efforts during the school day.

In this 2-hour webinar, the executive director and founder of the Center for the Improvement of Child Caring, will make the case for parent training in school and educate you about the different programs that are available to teach parents how to do their jobs more effectively.

Kerby's presentation will include descriptions and evaluations of several major parenting skill-building programs, including specialized programs for African-American and Latino parents offered by his own organization. These specialized programs, Effective Black Parenting and Los Ninos Bien Educados, have become widely used culturally specific parenting skill-building programs.

When schools are successful in helping parents to be the best they can be, they are furthering their primary objective of promoting academic achievement by their students. They also are preventing child abuse and neglect, drug abuse, mental health problems, delinquency and gang involvement

CONFERENCE TOPICS: In this webinar, Dr. Kerby Alvey will discuss:

• The benefits of effective parenting and parenting education
• Defining effective parenting
• The productive parenting pattern
• Parenting programs that teach the productive pattern
• How to bring a parent training program to your schools
• Working with parents of different ethnic backgrounds
• Other ways of promoting the productive parentingpattern
• Organizations that can help

Participants will have plenty of time to ask questions online about areas of particular concern.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Kerby Alvy, Ph.D., is executive director and founder of the Los-Angeles-based 35-year-old nonprofit Center for the Improvement of Child Caring and founder and member of the advisory board of the National Effective Parenting Initiative. Kerby has been honored at the White House for his work to enhance the status and effectiveness of parents. His books include Parent Training Today: A Social Necessity, one of the most comprehensive and authoritative books ever written on parent training;, and Black Parenting: Strategies for Training, a groundbreaking book of research on African American parenting and implications for culturally specific parent training. His most recent book is The Positive Parent: Raising Healthy, Happy and Successful Children, Birth Through Adolescence. Kerby was previously affiliated with Kedren Community Mental health Center in the Watts area of Los Angeles for 7 years, where he served as director of children's services, and with the Los Angeles campus of the California School of Professional Psychology for 17 years where he was a professor and dean for academic affairs.

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How does an audio conference/webinar work?
It's simple. A few minutes before the start of the webinar, you call a toll-free number in order to listen to the speaker and go to a website on your computer to view the Powerpoint. We will email you the toll-free number and all the access information as soon as you register. You will be able to ask the speaker questions online during the presentation.

How many people can listen in per registration?
As many people as can fit in a room. Webinars provide cost-effective opportunities for professional development. Only one phone connection per registration.

I'd like to attend the live event, but the time does not work for me and/or my colleagues. Is there a way I can listen at another time?
Yes! We will provide a link to the entire presentation the next morning that can be accessed at any computer. You and your colleagues can watch the presentation at a time that works for you.

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Yes. You may fax the PO to 815-461-5647 or call us at 207-632-1954.

Can I ship the CD-ROM to other district offices so that they can watch and listen at a later date?
An unlimited number of attendees may listen and view the live conference. Please limit use of the CD-ROM to staff in one office. Discounts are available for multiple orders.

CONTACT INFO:
Educational Research Newsletter
PO Box 2347
South Portland, ME 04116
Tel: 207-632-1954
Fax: 815-461-5647