Parks Press for Parents
Rosa Parks/Millbrook ISSDA
February 15-19, 2020
Our Mission
BeMotivating: How Parents Can Motivate Students During Distance Learning
It's no doubt that managing student learning at home can be stressful. We've included some tips to help you support your child (face-to-face or virtual) while working through the challenges of our current WEBOLearning status.
1. Manage our own stress
Managing stress levels is good for our health. It’s also good for our children’s mental health. When demonstrating positive ways to manage anxiety, children learn coping skills to deal with stress, promoting their resilience. Examples, such as taking deep breaths, exercising, meditating, and practicing mindfulness can help manage stress.
2. Let go of control on our kids
Letting go of controlling our kids is scary. We want the best for our children. We often control kids’ behavior because we want to steer them away from mistakes. But our good intention often becomes a source of stress that hurts their motivation and diminishes their ability to learn.
3. Encourage learning, not doing If your child refuses to do homework, focus on learning. Going to school about learning. Grades are important, but to be intrinsically motivated to study, a child needs to enjoy learning.
Encourage them to learn and to use homework to strengthen their knowledge.
4. Focus on relationship instead of homework
A warm, secure parent-child relationship in childhood is essential to living a happy, successful life. Only parents can love their child and make them feel safe even when they fail. Become your child’s safe haven, a person your kid wants to come to, not one they want to hide away from.
5. Be supportive and teach stress awareness
When a child is not motivated to learn, be supportive instead of contemptuous. Help them identify their source of stress and encourage them to talk about it.
6. Provide a stress-free environment
Other ways to eliminate stress include having a balanced diet, getting enough sleep, and studying in a relaxed environment. Motivating children to learn better in distance learning is not that hard if parents can let go of our own security and support our kids to flourish in their own ways. The sooner they learn to be independent and responsible for their own education, the more self-motivated they are.
References
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Celebrate Kindness Week 2021 at RPM
We look forward to the wonderful talent waiting to be displayed during Black History Month! Make sure your scholar is signed up.
Black History Wax Museum
Oratory and Spoken Word Showcase
Family Art Showcase
Voting for our RPM Teachers is an Act of Kindness!
In 2021, H-E-B will go the extra mile to visit schools and districts in their Texas Loves Teachers Tour.
The tour will caravan across Texas in March and April, visiting 50 schools. They will be giving away $20,000 in H-E-B gift cards each week. At each stop, the tour will host an appreciation event for school staff complete with H-E-B gift cards, cash prizes and more.
Nothing would be better than for OUR teachers to be a part of the H-E-B tour!! So help me out!!
Let’s show RPM teachers how much they are loved!! Vote here https://texaslovesteachers.com, EVERYDAY, for RPM Elementary teachers!! Ask your friends and family to vote as well.
Rosa Parks/Millbrook Elementary
630 Millbrook Drive
Lancaster, TX
LancasterISD
Parents of our Face-to-Face Scholars
BeRespectful
- Scholars are expected to be on time to their classes. Morning instruction begins promptly at 8:00a.m. Ensure students are on time by logging in by 7:50a.m.
- School uniforms are not required during online learning, however attire must be appropriate. No pajamas or head gear allowed.
- All cameras are required to be on during virtual classes.
- Persistent misbehavior/classroom disruptions will not be tolerated.
- Remain muted until asked to un-mute.
Be Up-to-Date
Kindness Week February 15-20, 2021
Vote for RPM @https://texaslovesteachers.com every day, now through February 28.
Feb. 15 School closed (Student Holiday/Staff Development)
Feb. 15-19 Random Acts of Kindness Week
Feb. 16 Mardi Gras (Wear purple/green/gold; or African attire for Tuesday Heritage Tribute)
Feb. 17 Random Acts of Kindness Day
Feb. 17 Oratory-Spoken Word Showcase (Entries due)
Feb. 20 Saturday Learning @The Parks
Feb. 24 RPM Black History Program 6:00p.m.
Feb. 25 99th Day of School (Dress like you're 99...the 100th day is coming!)
Feb. 25 LISD School Board Meeting
Feb. 26 100th Day of School (Welcome to Wakanda @The Parks)
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Forest Whitcraft
Email: yvonnethornton@lancasterisd.org
Website: rpm.lancasterisd.org
Location: 630 Millbrook Drive, Lancaster, TX, USA
Phone: 972-2181564
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