Schools and Families

Families play an important role in today's schools. Family involvement helps to guide school decision-making, improves problem solving and aids dispute resolution.

• Helping Your Child Learn to Read
• Choosing books for young children
• Education – Getting Ready – This fact sheet provides parents with helpful hints on how to prepare their child with disabilities to start school.
• Education – Home/School Connection – This fact sheet provides information on how you can support your child with disabilities to continue their learning at home.
• Problem Solving for Schools, Families & Communities – A guide for problem-solving and dispute resolution.
• Formal Dispute Resolution for Families & Schools – A guide outlining the formal review process and the kind of issues that qualify for formal dispute resolution.
• Technology Use in Schools – Use this parent handbook to help your child learn about and safely use technology such as computers, mobile phones and other tools.
• Helping Your Child Succeed in School: A Guide for Parents and Families of Aboriginal Students – This guide offers parents and families of Aboriginal students suggestions about how to support their child?s learning at home and at school.
• School Partnerships: A Guide for Parents, Schools, and Communities – This guide assists formal and informal school advisory groups and committees in their roles as partners in supporting student success at school.
• Working Together: A Handbook for Parents of Children with Special Needs in School
• Student Services – Information and contacts regarding student services, planning, special education, funding, published documents and educational programming.
• Delivery of Arts Education – Find out how arts education is supported in Manitoba through a variety of programs and partnerships.
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