How Parents Can Promote Student Success?How can Parents Promote Student Success?

Parents play a key role in ensuring that their child or adolescent achieves school success. When parents, students, and staff work together, the student will obtain his/her academic goals. Some of the actions that parents can take to promote school success are:
* communicate with school staff to be aware of
  homework assignments
* review your child’s homework
* encourage your child to be friends with
  positive role models
* try to do something enjoyable with your child
  at least once a week
* set clear expectations for students about
homework
* get acquainted with your child’s teachers
* monitor where your child goes/information
keeps your child out of trouble
* communicate with school staff when there is
  a concern with the school
* attend school functions such as conferences,
  programs, and athletic events
* encourage students to participate in school-
  related after-school activities
* consistently enforce household rules
* set aside a time when the whole family reads
* encourage students to talk about school, social
  activities, and their interests
* teach standards of right and wrong and
  demonstrate these standards
* provide a quiet place where your child can
  study
* support school discipline policies
* talk to your child about tobacco, drugs,
  alcohol, gangs, and violence
* monitor your child’s choices of TV programs,
  video games and music

The 4 C's of Counseling:

Counseling is available to individual students, parents, and small groups.

Consulting takes place between counselors and teachers/parents.

Coordinating the efforts of school personnel and community agencies is a function of the counselor.

Classroom guidance lessons follow a curriculum which is developed and based on Alabama standards of learning.