Category: Family & Community Engagement

Join us for the first Virtual ParentCamp of 2025 – January 15th 8 pm ET/5 pm PT

Julia Pile
2025-01-15 VPC Main All Rooms

Join us for Virtual ParentCamp on Wednesday, January 15, 2025 at 8 pm ET/7 pm CT/ 6 pm MT/ 5 pm PT! Join us for the first Virtual ParentCamp of 2025. Hope you all had a safe and merry break and were able to enjoy time with your families. If you are lucky enough to live in the Midwest or on the East coast, you may have also enjoyed some snow!!  This year, I’m excited to welcome new friends and reconnect with familiar faces at Virtual ParentCamp. Let’s make 2025…

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Kicking Off the New Year with the inaugural edition of The ParentCamp Podcast and One Word Challenge

Julia Pile
The ParentCamp Podcast Season 1 Episode 1 Podcast Cover - The Journey

Happy New Year! We’re thrilled to introduce The ParentCamp Podcast, a dynamic new platform to spark meaningful conversations among parents, educators, and communities. After months of preparation, the podcast launches today with host April F. Draine as our guide. In the first episode, titled “The Journey,” April dives into the origins of ParentCamp with Julie Pile, President and Laura Gilchrist, Vice President, highlighting its mission to foster collaboration and build school and community ecosystems. Expect exciting discussions about impactful topics, sharing stories from ParentCamp schools, highlighting the amazing people we…

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You Just Have to Notice them….Podcast from a ParentCamp friend touched us today..

Julia Pile
Happy Holidays from ParentCamp

If you ever talk to Laura and I, we truly believe in the positive energy of the universe and that people or events cross our paths when it is meant to happen. Today while I was taking my daily walk, I was listening to a long-time friend of ours’ podcast – Phyl Macomber’s Every Child Can Learn. I love listening to the lens of her different guests and Phyl is the nicest person I have met. I love her to pieces. On this episode, she was talking to her cousin…

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October Edition of Virtual ParentCamp – Wednesday, October 14th at noon ET/9 am PT

Julia Pile
2024-10-16 Virtual ParentCamp

Join us for our day time of Virtual ParentCamp – Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at 12pm ET/9 am PT. It’s definitely cooler outside now and I am enjoying the cardigan weather. I love the different colored reds and oranges all around us. It’s almost time for the end of Daylight Savings Time and don’t forget it’s Fall Backwards, so we go back an hour. The evenings are already getting darker and it’s nearly time for the fun of the end of the month. If you have kids and take part,…

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Reflections on Positive Outcomes’ Final Two ParentCamps of the 2023-24 School Year

Will Baker

Reflections on Positive Outcomes’ Final Two ParentCamps of the 2023-24 School Year Written by: ParentCamp Coach Jay Posick As the school year came to an end at Positive Outcomes, it seems like the right time to reflect on the final two ParentCamps.  The number of attendees continues to remain steady but, more importantly, the quality of the conversations continues to be what we talk about after each of the ParentCamps.  We spent time immediately following the ParentCamps on March 27th and May 22nd meeting as a group to discuss what…

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