Clovis Unified offers free parent workshops on a variety of topics

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- Clovis Unified School District is moving to enactment parents done the galore challenges of raising kids.

One mode they're doing that is by gathering parents unneurotic passim the twelvemonth for evenings filled with accusation astatine Parent Workshops.

"Really, the intent of those is to link with families and supply them with resources and accusation that tin assistance them enactment their students' acquisition astatine schoolhouse and besides enactment them astatine home," CUSD Dir. of Supplemental Services Robyn Snyder said.

The escaped meet-ups are unfastened to parents of TK to 12th-grade students.

While immoderate meetings whitethorn lend themselves to a definite property group, each parents are welcome.

For instance, for parents of younger students, determination volition beryllium a Literacy Night connected February 5.

A published writer volition sojourn and stock tips connected keeping kids' attention.

"The writer volition come, stock their story, however they became an writer and past besides stock immoderate speechmaking strategies, things to bash astatine location to marque speechmaking engaging with their students -- that are besides things that their students mightiness spot successful the classroom," Snyder said.

Light meal and childcare are offered.

There are besides translation services available.

Snyder says they take topics based connected pupil and genitor feedback.

That's however the first-ever Artificial Intelligence store was created.

"So we didn't primitively person an AI nighttime planned, but conscionable based connected the things that we were proceeding from parents and from our schoolhouse tract leaders, we added a genitor nighttime connected that, which was precise good attended, and parents asked for a portion two," Snyder said.

Now, they're preparing to grow that store successful the future.

In March, they are readying a fentanyl consciousness nighttime to thatch parents astir the dangers of fentanyl, what parents request to cognize and however to assistance enactment those who request it.

Snyder says the workshops are meant to beryllium an added assets for each parents successful the district.

"Really, we're conscionable hoping that they locomotion distant with thing that they tin usage astatine home, thing that volition marque a quality successful their child's life, and past we'll assistance enactment them. I'm a genitor of 4 kids myself, and I cognize however hard it is close present to rise 4 kids, truthful really, our extremity is to supply that further enactment for them," Snyder said.

The workshops are held astatine the CUSD Professional Learning Center astatine Clovis and Herndon.

You tin find much accusation connected Clovis Unified's website.

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