The full title for the post is “wellness, parenting, academic learning skills, life skills, learning for all community stakeholders through a variety of conduits and modalities” via student support services and a parent portal. 🙂

The parent portal would be presented to help parents expand their parenting toolkit with a listing of parenting topics, including wellness supported by articles, books, podcasts, videos, parent workshop slideshows, online courses, etc., including a section on parenting in the digital age.

The student support portal for teachers would have a section containing a Web Resources for Learning style toolkit for instruction, assessment, character development, etc., resources. And, of course, there would be a student section with learning resources that could include ways to help students construct their Personal Learning System (PLS).

The roadblock for the parenting section in international schools is language. One way to work through this barrier would be to engage PTA volunteers and high school students interested in service learning. The PTA could form a committee to research parenting resources in the languages of the different parent populations. They also could provide translation services for the portal pages of information as authored by the school counselors and other providers.

High school students can do the same sort of research and translation. It is especially the case in International Baccalaureate (IB) schools with diploma-candidate students needing to do creativity, activity, and service (CAS) hours.

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