Free parent workshops on education issues ranging from Common Core state standards to course requirements for college admission will be provided Sept. 6 at Natomas Unified’s second annual Parent Empowerment Institute, titled “Steps to Success.”
The event, sponsored by NUSD’s Parent CORES, is scheduled from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sept. 6 at Inderkum High School. Registration is available at www.parentcores.com or by calling 567-5516. Free transportation is available to Natomas families that register in advance.
The focus of this year’s parent institute is on Natomas Unified’s Vision and Steps to Success. The Board-approved Vision is that, “All NUSD students graduate as college and career ready, productive, responsible and engaged global citizens.” Steps to Success is a system for accomplishing that vision by monitoring progress from kindergarten through 12th grade.
Dr. Nicoline Ambe will give the parent institute’s keynote speech, “Seven Steps to Raising a High Achiever,” providing parents with simple but effective strategies to help their children excel. Dr. Ambe is a special education teacher whose 17-year career as an instructor includes a decade teaching law, political science and women’s studies at various Canadian universities.
Workshops will be presented by the following NUSD staff:
- Common Core Math and English- Language Arts Standards, by Jodie Cooper-Hoffman, Director of School Leadership and Support
- A-to-G Requirements and College Readiness, by counseling staff
- Special Education and Mental Health, by psychologists
- English Language Development and Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English (SDAIE), by Lore Carrillo, teacher on special assignment
- The District’s New App, by Jim Sanders, Director of Communications
The free event also will include lunch, raffle prizes, an education and community resource fair – and a free back-to-school goodie bag for the first 100 families. Participants in the resource fair tentatively include the UC Davis Early Academic Outreach Program, American River College, California State University-Sacramento, Natomas Schools Foundation, Greater Sacramento Urban League, National Alliance on Mental Illness, Child Action, Head Start, 4th R and many other groups. For more information about the event, call 567-5516.
