This two-session program will address the difficult task of child discipline with humor, keen insight and proven experience. It is easy to learn and it works! This class will provide you with three steps for effective parenting: 1) Controlling obnoxious behavior 2) Encouraging good behavior 3) Strengthening your relationship with your child This program uses straightforward and very effective methods for managing the behavior of children from the ages of approximately 2 to 12. It is important for parents to attend both sessions (part 1 & 2) to learn the whole program.

This two-session program will address the difficult task of child discipline with humor, keen insight and proven experience. It is easy to learn and it works! This class will provide you with three steps for effective parenting: 1) Controlling obnoxious behavior 2) Encouraging good behavior 3) Strengthening your relationship with your child This program uses straightforward and very effective methods for managing the behavior of children from the ages of approximately 2 to 12. It is important for parents to attend both sessions (part 1 & 2) to learn the whole program.

This 6-session class series teaches parents strategies and techniques to help their children become more self-confident, motivated, and ready for the real world with this win-win approach to parenting. Your children will win because they´ll learn to solve their own problems while gaining the confidence they need to meet life´s challenges. And you´ll win because you´ll establish healthy control - without resorting to anger, threats, nagging or exhausting power struggles. Please register and attend all of the classes in the series to complete the program. Modules: 1) Raising Responsible Kids 2) The Love & Logic Formula 3) "C" Stands for Control That´s Shared 4) "O" is for Ownership of the Problem 5) "O" is Also for Opportunity for Thinking 6) "L" Stands for Let Empathy & Consequences Do the Teaching

Dare To Prepare is a 90-minute pre-permit presentation for parents and teens that provides critical information teens need to know before they take the wheel. This presentation walks attendees through the steps necessary to obtain a permit and a driver´s license, and offers useful tools to help parents and teens through the learning-to-drive process.

This is a 4-class interactive class. Parents are encouraged to bring their children with them to participate. Please register for all 4 classes in the series. The Leaps and Bounds Program educates and supports parents by providing a research based program designed to increase parental involvement in the home and to help parents get their children ready for school. The goal of the Leaps and Bounds program is to ensure that children are entering school ready to learn and to increase the likelihood that they will become productive citizens later in life. This program focuses on the readiness skills of pre-kindergartners. Activities in each area of the house focus on children between 3 and 5 years of age; however, these activities can be applied to children of various backgrounds and age groups.

Workshop 1 of 4: "Around the House" NOTE: This is an interactive class. Parents are encouraged to bring their children with them to participate. The Leaps and Bounds Program educates and supports parents by providing a research based program designed to increase parental involvement in the home and to help parents get their children ready for school. The goal of the Leaps and Bounds program is to ensure that children are entering school ready to learn and to increase the likelihood that they will become productive citizens later in life. This program focuses on the readiness skills of pre-kindergartners. Activities in each area of the house focus on children between 3 and 5 years of age; however, these activities can be applied to children of various backgrounds and age groups.

Workshop 2 of 4: "Around the House II" NOTE: This is an interactive class. Parents are encouraged to bring their children with them to participate. The Leaps and Bounds Program educates and supports parents by providing a research based program designed to increase parental involvement in the home and to help parents get their children ready for school. The goal of the Leaps and Bounds program is to ensure that children are entering school ready to learn and to increase the likelihood that they will become productive citizens later in life. This program focuses on the readiness skills of pre-kindergartners. Activities in each area of the house focus on children between 3 and 5 years of age; however, these activities can be applied to children of various backgrounds and age groups.

Workshop 3 of 4: "In the Environment" NOTE: This is an interactive class. Parents are encouraged to bring their children with them to participate. The Leaps and Bounds Program educates and supports parents by providing a research based program designed to increase parental involvement in the home and to help parents get their children ready for school. The goal of the Leaps and Bounds program is to ensure that children are entering school ready to learn and to increase the likelihood that they will become productive citizens later in life. This program focuses on the readiness skills of pre-kindergartners. Activities in each area of the house focus on children between 3 and 5 years of age; however, these activities can be applied to children of various backgrounds and age groups.

Workshop 4 of 4: "In the Environment II" NOTE: This is an interactive class. Parents are encouraged to bring their children with them to participate. The Leaps and Bounds Program educates and supports parents by providing a research based program designed to increase parental involvement in the home and to help parents get their children ready for school. The goal of the Leaps and Bounds program is to ensure that children are entering school ready to learn and to increase the likelihood that they will become productive citizens later in life. This program focuses on the readiness skills of pre-kindergartners. Activities in each area of the house focus on children between 3 and 5 years of age; however, these activities can be applied to children of various backgrounds and age groups.

This class is open to all parents of Gifted learners grades 1-12 who have been tested and determined to be gifted. The class will address characteristic traits of Gifted learners, and helpful hints for academic and personal success. The instructor will also speak about transitioning from elementary-to-middle, middle-to-high school, and high school-to-college. Gifted learners are invited to join their parents in the class. Child care will be provided for other children as needed (Please e-mail bpurcell@ajusd.org to reserve your child care spot, including number of children and their ages).

This workshop is to help parents understand the role of mental arithmetic in developing numerical reasoning. The parents will experience the kinds of lessons that help children learn basic facts in meaningful contexts and through reasoning rather than rote memorization and isolated drill. This workshop focuses on ways to help children become fluent with small numbers and emphasizes the importance of such fluency as a foundation for working with larger numbers. The class is geared to parents of K-2 students.

Participants will experience a fun hands-on approach to fractions appropriate to elementary grades 3rd to 5th. They will develop an understanding of the concept of fractions and the relationships between fractions in a way that will allow them to better help their students grasp the concept of fractions.