Children do their best when they have the skills, support, and motivation to do so. By collaborating with your child’s school, you increase opportunities for your child to get the support they need in each of these areas. A home-school partnership capitalizes on your child’s skills, your knowledge of your child, and educators’ knowledge of learning and development. By partnering together, you can help your child achieve more than home or school could accomplish alone.
Toolkit
The purpose of this toolkit is to provide parents and caregivers a guide for building a home-school partnership to support their child’s education and development. This toolkit is intended for caregivers of children of all ages and skill levels, in general education and/or special education settings. Throughout this toolkit, there are opportunities to fill in and make notes. It is an interactive fillable PDF form. Click here to access a free PDF of the toolkit.
Course
More strategies and resources can be found in the Building a Home-School Partnership free online self-paced course. Make a free account at triad.vkclearning.org, then go to the “Informational Toolkits” folder. If you already have an online learning account login here.
To learn more about these resources check out this brief video (3:17) by lead author Paige McArdle, Ph.D., BCBA.
This educational resource was created by the VKC’s Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorder (VKC TRIAD) and Vanderbilt Consortium LEND Training Program.
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[June 2021]