Military Child Education Coaltion
The Military Child Education Coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes partnerships and provides for networking of military installations and their supporting school districts. The website provides links to their education resource center, initiatives, publications and research, and training opportunities.
Military Impacted Schools Association
Military Impacted Schools Association (MISA) is a national organization of school superintendents. Our mission is to serve school districts with a high concentration of military children.
Formed in 1986, MISA works on funding (Impact Aid), legislation, partnerships and programs for military families on the move. MISA conducts workshops for educators and provides resources on connectedness, building resilience, military life, transition, and deployment.
Education is an important quality of life program for military families. MISA partners with the Department of Defense Education Activity, National Military Family Association, and military leaders to ensure that all military children are afforded a quality education. MISA works with local school districts and commanders to highlight best practices and partnerships that can further meet the needs of military families.
Military K-12 Partnership
The Military K-12 Partnership between the Department of Defense and the DoD Education Activity has all of the services working with educators and administrators across the nation to provide quality education for all children of military families.
Penn State - Clearinghouse for military family readiness school resources
about military families
High quality, evidence-based resources are publicly available online from many organizations. The Clearinghouse for Military Family Readiness at Penn State identified some of the most relevant, useful, and accessible resources across multiple topics, such as military culture, deployments, parental injury, student grief, and reintegration.
Purdue University - Military Family Research Institute
How to Help Series
How to Help Military and Veteran Families is a series of publications that offer valuable information to various audiences to help them assist and support members of the military, veterans and their families. Each issue provides evidence-based guidance on how a particular group can help, with short, practical suggestions and links that point to additional resources. Each issue has been carefully reviewed both by subject matter experts and military family support organizations. Web-friendly and printer-friendly.
The series is the result of a joint effort between the Department of Defense and the Department of Agriculture, in collaboration with the Military Family Research Institute at Purdue University and the National Military Family Association.
Here are some resources for teachers, home school parents and others who want to teach children about the military.
Educational resources about Memorial Day and Veterans Day
Memorial Day & Veterans Day - The Poppy Lady
A professional CCSS Annotated Discussion and Activity Guide for The Poppy Lady is now available. You may download a PDF file.
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Seasons of My Military Student
Practical ideas for parents and teachers
Authors: Amanda Trimillos and Stacy Allsbrook-Huisman
Copyright @ 2018
Military-connected students move frequently, changing schools as many as nine times from preschool to high school graduation. With each move, they adjust to a different curriculum, meet new teachers and coaches, adapt to a new learning environment, and develop new friendships--all amid other military life challenges, such as a parent's deployment.
Seasons of My Military Student helps parents and teachers:
- Understand the Seasons of Transition and the storms of military life that impact a student's education
- Employ key provisions of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children
- Create an effective portable Seasons Education Binder
- Work together as a team to support a student from grade to grade and school to school
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