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Professional Trainings

Initial Parent Educator Training

Practical Parent Education’s Initial Parent Educator Training is designed to give participants a comprehensive set of skills in two and a half days of interactive fun. Practical application and practice are joined with theory and research so that parent educators leave with the following concepts and the confidence to make them applicable in their programs:

  • an understanding of the field of parent education as it has emerged in the 21st century

  • recognition of the benefits to children when parents and families have appropriate parenting skills

  • confidence in establishing and maintaining appropriate professional boundaries

  • an understanding of family systems and its application to parent education

  • awareness of the ways that lifespan development affects families

  • an understanding of how long term change takes place

  • effective strategies for increasing parental capacity and parental involvement

  • effective group facilitation skills

  • strategies for promoting school and community support for parent education programs

  • awareness of funding opportunities

  • short term and long term goals for parent education programs

  • familiarity with services, support, and materials offered through Practical Parent Education membership

Initial Parent Educator Training: Available only to PPE Subscribers. For subscriber information, click here.

To schedule a training in your area, please call 800.687.2823 or email ppe@pisd.edu.

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NEW TRAINING

"ME, YOU AND EVERYONE ELSE"

A one-day training focusing on cultural diversity

Learning about differences in customs and beliefs is the beginning of a journey toward building trust, cross cultural communication and competence. It is a way to learn to deliver services and to connect with culturally different individuals on a deeper level. It is critical to keep in mind that all individuals, children, and families are unique; although they may be influenced by their ethnic, cultural, and language backgrounds, they are not fully defined by them. Our goal of cultural learning is insight, not stereotype.

Participants will look at research; participate in self-examination, share experiences and brainstorm solutions as they begin to crumble barriers and gain cultural competence.

To schedule a training in your area, please call 800.687.2823 or email ppe@pisd.edu.

Training Schedule

TBA

Registration form


"Building Bright Futures…Parenting Children who have Attention Deficits"

    • Empower parents
    • Increase parental understanding of the issues unique to ADD/ADHD
    • Gain a greater respect and appreciation of children with ADD/ADHD
    • Improve self-esteem in both children and parents
    • Reduce parental guilt and anxiety
    • Increase harmony in the home
    • Improve communication between home and school
    • Encourage parents to become advocates

Comprehensive Training Package Includes:

One day training, facilitator’s guide, handout masters, video & tote bag

PPE Subscriber Rate: $185.00
Non-PPE Subscriber Rate: $200.00

Training Schedule

TBA

Registration form

To schedule a training in your area, please call 800.687.2823 or email ppe@pisd.edu.


"Nurturing Families Through Divorce"

Divorce is a painful, confusing experience for children of all ages. Over 50% of all marriages in the U.S. end in divorce and 70% of today’s children will spend part of their childhood in a single parent home. Do you feel prepared to provide the support and tools for the parents and the children who are affected by divorce? PPE has added a new one-day training for parent educators and counselors. The focus of the training will be on the children, with the goal of providing the insight necessary to prevent children from suffering long term damaging effects of divorce.

How can we best support the children of divorce?

  • Help children express their feelings and concerns regarding the changes in their family
  • Recognize the signs of children who are in distress
  • Facilitate a long-lasting, meaningful relationship with both parents
  • Awareness of parental behaviors that damage children
  • Share ideas for successful co-parenting

To schedule a training in your area, please call 800.687.2823 or email ppe@pisd.edu.

Training Schedule

TBA

Registration Form (.pdf)


 "For Kids' Sake Facilitator Training"

 More Information

To register for one of these classes (click here for registration form).


"Parent Involvement: Moving Beyond Rhetoric"

Offering workshops to serve the needs of your school districts.

Administrators
Workshop
Parent Involvement
Specialists Workshop

Research
Challenges
Solutions

Tools and Resources
Best Practices
Implementation Guidelines

Training Objectives

  • Learn a variety of strategies for building and maintaining
    successful parent involvement opportunities from early childhood through high school.

  • Apply best practices for connecting and involving parents who seldom participate in school events.

  • Foster a family friendly environment in schools to make them welcoming to all families.

  • Identify parent involvement activities and services to comply with the No Child Left Behind legislation

You will also receive Practical Parent Education’s notebook

Parent Involvement: Moving Beyond Rhetoric

filled with ready-to-use parent handouts, documentation forms, fliers, sample evaluations, pre and post tests, school climate surveys, icebreakers, resources and more with duplicating rights.

$125 Per Person

To schedule a training in your area, please call 800.687.2823 or email ppe@pisd.edu.

 The One Day Training No One Should Miss!

TBA

Registration Form (.pdf)



To register for one of these classes, or to schedule training in your area, please contact the PPE office at 800.687.2823 or email: ppe@pisd.edu