Here are some critical Points to Pay Attention to:
· Focus and Fleet
and family service center, Family readiness center
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Student to Student
clubs on campus
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Welcomes new
student to school
·
Anchor for life
program
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Lunch on first
day of school
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Layers of support are necessary
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Social, academic,
and emotional resources are needed with assessments, interventions, counseling
and extracurricular activities available for children to properly adjust.
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Understand
military student ratio's for school s important to ensure DOD support
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Overseas DOD
schools are more geared to help transitioning military students
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Schools need to
ensure teachers assess and are able to help kids catch up if necessary
· When kids come in
from different areas they are typically not as a tentative because they're
trying to fit in.
· Empower children
transitioning from new locations by allowing them to speak about their past
experience with moves. What they liked and learn. This will help the as a
tentative because they're trying to fit in.
· Empower children
transitioning from new locations by allowing them to speak about their past
experience with moves. What they liked and learn. This will help make them more
interesting to other students who have been in one location for years.
· Parents providing
IEP individual education program information on assessment to allow for them to
get support and build on their strengths
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School liaison
officers are the ones providing resources, referral and coordination between
third-party assistance.
· San Diego
educational system is creating creating wellness centers at six schools that
include Crawford, Rankin, Maurice, Sierra.
· Attendance for
military children typically suffer more than civilian students because they
don't feel the engagement at their new school or with the servicemember getting
underway and coming back parents are more likely to allow the child to stay
home for family time that will be a mess when the servicemember is gone.
· Education on
attendance to parrots is important because there are educational differences
from when the parents were in school because there are collaborative
environments in the classroom becoming more prevalent that cannot be teaching
at home or with independent study.
· During a PCS
transition getting kids enrolled quickly is very important because wall not
enrolled they are not being tracked and not in the system to ensure compliance
and updating.
· There is a new
program called military interstate compact also known as Mic3 which
includes all 50 states plus Washington DC. www.mic3.net that assist with:
· There are plenty
of programs available to assist military children transitioning. The challenge
is consistency of awareness for these programs to the military families and
children throughout each school district and school itself.
· Military school
liaison officers are critical points of contact in which all military families
need to be aware of. Bottom line, proactivity is going to lead to success for
the children.
The identified gaps and ways to get ahead include:
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Youth
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Financial
assistance and affordability
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Military culture
in schools
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Awareness of
programs available
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Literacy gaps and
proper placement
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Fun activities
and classes (high school)
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Communication
with parents, school and child
o Lack of parent support
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Parents
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Connectedness
with the school staff
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Helping their
kids catch up where appropriate
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Transportation
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Information/awareness
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Before and after
care
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Start and end
times
o Social media sharing
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Family
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No family time
(see busywork)
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Take time off for
PTO meetings Communication with family
o
PTA/PTO’s are
very clicky and tough to get involved unless aggressive in many cases
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Activities to
bring families together
o Awareness of programs
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Schools
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Funding in staffing
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Numbers of
students (learning styles/levels)
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State tests are
all different and cause problems in levels of education from state to state
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Proactivity
before a crisis new
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Different
perspectives/different generations