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    • How Can Parents Promote Student Success?

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    • How Can Parents Promote Student Success?
    • 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.

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    1124 Kelly Springs Rd.,
    Dothan, AL 36303


    Phone: 334-983-6565
    Fax: 334-983-5822


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    The Dothan City Board of Education is established under authority of state law for the purpose of exercising general supervision and administration of the public schools serving school age children who reside within the city limits of the City of Dothan, and of promoting the interests of the Dothan City Schools and the children they serve. It is the policy of the Dothan City Board of Education that no student will be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination in any program or activity on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, disability, age or color.
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