Category: Resilience

Celebrating National Family Engagement Week with Virtual ParentCamp on November 20th 8 pm ET/5 pm PT

Julia Pile
2024-11-12 Virtual ParentCamp

Join us for Virtual ParentCamp on Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT! This month’s Virtual ParentCamp coincides with Family Engagement Week.  This is the perfect time to join us for our monthly ParentCamp as we continue in our meaningful dialogues connecting families, schools and communities in stronger partnerships.  We are excited to be partnering once again with The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence  (@PrichardComm) this year to celebrate this important week.  It is also National Literacy Month. I hope you are all enjoying re-reading your favorite…

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ParentCamp Podcast Producer and Host April Draine Named Boone County Schools Ambassador

Will Baker

ParentCamp is proud to announce our own April Draine has completed the Boone County School’s District Ambassador Program. Selected ambassadors, made up of parents and community members, attend monthly trainings and tours of departments that run the school district. Ambassadors learn how the school district operates and they will become bridge builders in the community. “The Superintendent District Ambassador Program was a great opportunity for me,” said April, “being a new transplant to Kentucky with my family. The monthly meetings allowed our group to meet with Dr. Tuner and various…

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ParentCamp’s Literary Friends Have Written the Perfect Gifts

Julia Pile

ParentCamp is fortunate to have a number of dedicated friends who are authors of books on a range of topics, from education, to financial basics for children, to personal growth, to sports. There is something for just about everyone in this group. It’s not too late to order one or two (or more) of these books for a friend or family member for holiday gifts, though the books make great gifts for any occasion: New Year, birthday, graduation, Arbor Day, Summer Solstice…you get the idea.  Laura Gilchrist  Laura Gilchrist, a…

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Join us for a Daytime Version of National Virtual ParentCamp – Wednesday, December 13th at 12 pm ET/9 am PT!

Julia Pile
2023-12-13-Virtual-ParentCamp

You asked and we listened, we were asked if we could hold Virtual ParentCamp at another time of the day.  Sometimes, evenings are hard for people to attend.  We will be holding a few Virtual ParentCamps this school year at noon ET/ 9 am PT.  We would love to hear your feedback at how this time of day works for you.  We are trying to be cognizant of all the time zones people join us from, which there are a lot!  We hope you have taken advantage of joining us…

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Looks like we are going to have an Empowering Kind of Week on Virtual ParentCamp!

Julia Pile
Virtual ParentCamp Logo

Can you believe it?!  March Madness has started, clocks have sprung forward and the first day of spring is upon us!  The first day of spring is bittersweet for me, it is usually my mom’s birthday and she passed away in 2014 from Alzheimers/dementia.  I smile when I see the tulips and daffodils start to peak through the ground and think of her. So who is ready for a Virtual ParentCamp?  We had to take a little break again, we have been out traveling, training schools and supporting them along…

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