Volume 02 | 4.1.2020
Family Guide for
Engaging Children at Home
Has your family created a school routine at home? Are you looking for more ways to engage your children? Is there too much screen time in place? So many questions!
 
By now students and families might have established some type of routine with child care and educational responsibilities. Saginaw ISD continues to work hard for our communities in order to provide up-to-date information on school updates as well as quality tools and resources to keep students engaged. 
 
Plan for this guidance to continue throughout the upcoming weeks in order to help families find fun ways to engage with their students during this stay at home season. This week we highlight parenting during a pandemic, turning homes into learning spaces, learning life skills by joining a free cooking club, and participating in positive, self-esteem workshops from a local organization called Self Love Beauty.
 
For individuals that require specific supports in the area of enrichment for your children, please feel free to complete the form below.
Saginaw ISD Recommendations
Parenting During a Pandemic
During these difficult times, we need each other more than ever. Join us during our "Parenting During a Pandemic" parent cafe series (via Zoom)! See flyer for more information on RSVP guidelines and dates/times of the upcoming cafes. We look forward to partnering with the CAN Council and Peer 360 to bring you this series!
NPR Homeschooling Comic
With school closures happening all across the country due to the coronavirus outbreak, public schools are varying widely in what they offer. 

If you're one of the tens of millions of parents who are now essentially homeschooling your kids, we have some tips to help you keep your kids engaged and everyone sane. Click the button below to read our new comic.
Life Skills: Free Cooking Club
During this difficult time for our country and the world, we want to spread love by creating a fun place for budding chefs to learn something new and fill the days ahead at home!

Stay tuned for a new cooking video releasing every Tuesday and Thursday at 2pm EST made with simple ingredients you hopefully already have in your pantry. Sign up is FREE.
Growth in Positive Self-Esteem
Self Love Beauty is breaking apart their 4-hour workshops to provide bite size learning to youth. Join Self Love Beauty for a 1-hour workshop on April 2 for youth ages 6-11 for just $10. This workshop will help kids learn about positive self-esteem, talking in a positive way about themselves and things they can practice in their everyday lives. Register today
Positive and Productive Childcare When Kids are not in School
As parents, there are times our children drive us crazy! In this time of rapid change and, for most of us, some kind of confinement at home, this can be especially true. Getting through the day can become tense, and we can be unsure about how to discipline our children.
 
Join us for this free web-based meeting with Randy Sprick. Randy is a parent (and yes, sometimes his children drive him crazy), a grandparent, and a world leader in effective behavior management. His presentation will cover things you can do to help your children learn to behave better and become more independent and responsible. 
  • Learn how and when to use consequences for misbehavior
  • Learn how and when to use praise
  • Learn to make daily life more pleasant and relaxed around the house
You will learn that you are already doing many things exactly right and add strategies for making things better! Come and join us for a fun and entertaining session.
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Support

Reach out to Saginaw ISD for support
Ericka Taylor - Executive Director of Early Childhood (Birth-5)
Erin Senkowski - Executive Director of Special Education
Rebekah Hornak - Executive Director of Instruction (K-12)
Do you have needs outside of engagement supports?
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