South Buffalo Charter School

Listed Below Are Links That Not Only Show Where Our Foundation Comes From, But Links That You Could Use At Home With Your Families! What You Do At Home Has A Profound Impact On The Success Of Students At School!

Information on Restorative Justice

What Parent's Need to Know About Restorative Justice – A slideshow from Sherry DiMarco, a social worker, outlining what Restorative Justice is to parents.

Bringing The Lessons Of Restorative Justice Home- An article which give examples of how parents can utilize Restorative Justice at home.

International Institute For Restorative Practices (IIRP) - The website of the International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP) which provide details on how to implement Restorative Practices.

Restorative Practices Parent Booklet - An article from the IIRP that comes with more ideas of how to use Restorative Justice at home, including questions that parents/guardians can ask themselves.

Learning About Behavioral Management/PBIS and Positive Discipline

Positive Behavioral Intervention Supports - A website that describes a framework in which places an emphasis on positive feedback for students who behave in a positive manner.

Supporting Families With PBIS At Home- Comes with an article on how to use PBIS at home.

PBIS At Home - From PTI Nebraska and the Nebraska Department of Education, it provides the PBIS framework in a way that can be utilized from home.

 What Is Positive Discipline? Experts Say This Method Is Effective at Getting Kids to Behave -  This article offers a brief overview of what Positive Discipline is and how to apply it in your household.

10 Ways to Practice Positive Discipline for Better-Behaved Kids - From the website Working Mother which offers ideas on how to utilize Positive Discipline rather than Negative Discipline.

Seven Tips for Practicing Positive Discipline - An article from PBIS on more ways to utilize Positive Discipline.

10 Activities to Encourage a Positive Attitude in Your Kids (free printable) - Easy activities for families to use to try to encourage a positive attitude for their children.

Topics of Stress and Stress Relief

Parent Tool-Kit - A website from NBC News Learn that not only explores topics students are learning at school, but also explores different health/social issues for a variety of grade levels.

Stress In School - Breaks down different possible areas of stress for students, focusing on how students/parents/teachers can work on each area.

Parenting Stress: 10 evidence-based tips for making life better- Tips for parents on how to reduce stress on themselves. 

12 Activities to help your child with social skills - Activities compiled that are easy to implement for children.

Makeover: Stress Relief for Real Life - A quick video that outlines three ideas for stress relief for families.

Self-Efficacy For the Family

Self-efficacy: How to foster in children - Describes what Self-Efficacy is and different ways in order to work with children on growing with it.

How To Develop Self-Efficacy in Children - Another article that breaks down the pieces of Self-Efficacy and how to work on them with children.

Transitioning From Elementary School To Middle School

10 Ways to Help Your Child Succeed in Middle School - The article from Kids Health that provides options families can use in order to help students do well in Middle School.

MAKING THE MOVE TO MIDDLE SCHOOL - A series of resources and articles from Scholastic for families in with the ultimate goal of getting students ready for Middle School.

My child in Special Education is transitioning to middle school. - A brief article from the Parent Network and Research Center that focuses on families with Special Education students and how they can prepare for Middle School.

Transitiong From Middle School To High School

3 Tips to Help Your Teen Transition to High School - For many students at SBCS, they will be heading to high school this fall. Here are a few tips to help them adjust to the change.

9 Tips for Helping Your Teen Transition to High School - Several more tips (some students can even start utilizing as Middle School students), to help them prepare for high school.

Top 8 College Prep Tips for Middle School through High School - Tips for students to get themselves prepared for High School and beyond.

Seven ways to prepare for middle and high school transitions - Most of these tips can be applicable during both transitions and can help students prepare for more challenging work.

10 Steps for Creating a Smooth Transition to High School - The article is about preparing students for high school with ways that can do before they start their first day.

Developing Rules and Routines With Your Family

Creating Structure and Rules - A resource from the CDC (available in both English and Spanish) that explains the rationale of creating rules in the household and offers several bridging articles that help with the creation of rules and routines.

The Importance of Routine in Childhood - From the Melbourne Child Psychology & School Psychology Services of Port Melborune which explains the rationale of setting routines for children.

A Sample of Family Household Rules - A list of possible rules that can be utilized in the household.

Schools Closed? How to Make a New Home Routine - A PBS Kids article from author Suzanne Bouffard directed towards how families can set up and maintain routines.

Why Kids Need Routines - This article describes why having routines can help young children be able to adapt to change.

Family routines: how and why they work - It goes over the benefits for families and ideas of what you can set routines for.

How To Work With Students At The End Of The School Year And The Summer

Summer Matters: How Parents Can Keep Their Children Learning All Summer Long - While some of these options are limited during the pandemic, many of these options are usable and provide ways for families to work on their children's education over the Summer.

Seven Ways to Prevent Summer Learning Loss - Seven points of focus for families as they try to focus on areas of educating their children.

10 Summer Break Tips to Help Parents at Year-End - Tips that focus on how to keep students maintained with their work as the year winds down.

Family Resources During the Coronavirus

Parental self-efficacy and competence -Describes what Parental Self-Efficacy is. It starts out with a few brief pieces of information 

Coronavirus and Learning from Home: Tips to Support Success for K-12 Students and Families - Tips Families can use while working with their students while students are working remotely.

Coronavirus Stress On Parents- An article that outlines ideas of what parents/guardians can do to work on management at home.

Supporting Kids During the Covid-19 Crisis - An article that offers tips of what parents can do while their kids are at off from school.

10 tips for talking about COVID-19 with your kids - Tips from author Wendy Thomas Russell (with PBS) on how to approach the topic of COVID-19 with children.

Talking with children about Coronavirus Disease 2019 - An article from the CDC about ways to talk about COVID-19 with your children.

How to Address Family Conflict & Your Child’s Behavioral Problems During the COVID-19 Pandemic - An article from NYU that is about how to work with children  by focusing on their emotions in order to try to deescalate conflict.

Parenting in a Pandemic: Tips to Keep the Calm at Home - An article from Healthy Children.org which offers ways to focus on Positive Behaviors and the importance of routines at home.