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MARTINDALE PRODUCTIONS 

Presents

Youth on Fire 

Fathers Day Community Outreach

Father Facts

Trinity Christian Game

RealDads fathers day 2016

Fine Auto Detailing - Thanksgiving

Teachers Who Love Children

Rebecca Friedrichs

Rawson PTO Celebration

Kurt Skelly at EBC 2016

    ECA Christmas 2016

    My Redeemer

    MCC Advertisment

    Neighborhood Transformation

 
PROMOTING SUSTAINABLE FAMILY

motivated

INDIVIDUALIZING

PERSONALIZING

CUSTOMIZING

Rawson PTO

Hartford Students Welcomed Back to School in Style

Sheff_v._O'Neill

Documentary of the Sheff v. O'Neill case, produced by T.J. Noel-Sullivan. The documentary was recognized as the "Outstanding Entry in CT History" at the 2014 CT History Day competition.

                

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"Great dreams aren't just visions," says Astro Teller, "They're visions coupled to strategies for making them real."

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Superintendent Beth Schiavino-Narvaez, is stepping down Dec. 8 to take a federal schools job overseas. Assistant Superintendent Leslie Torres-Rodriguez, a Hartford Public High School graduate who went on to earn a doctorate and has built her career in area schools for two decades will serve as interim leader.

ESSA

If you haven’t already done so, please take part in the online survey.  Also, please help spread the word about the survey by sharing this message with parents, families, and community partners in your networks.  
The survey closes on December 15, 2016.

This survey is designed to gather feedback from interested members of the public regarding key policy questions concerning Connecticut’s transition to the new federal law and enable us to better understand your priorities.  Thank you for sharing your thoughts and ideas on how we can all work together to ensure equity and excellence for 
all Connecticut students.

Rebecca Friedrichs

Rebecca Friedrichs @ 2550

Thanking God on thanksgiving 2016

YouthOnFire

training

#trainupachild

tcs

Walter_Gilliam

Barack_Obama_Family

Dear_POTUS

this_week

Judge Thomas Moukawsher Delivers his Ruling



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Parents as Teachers – focuses on providing parents a clearer understanding of the developmental process of learning, how to stimulate and support healthy intellectual and social development for their children and the teaching and learning approaches used in schools.

Parents as Advocates – seeks to build parents capacity to be a better advocate for their child, understand the learning standards and assessments, how to support learning at home and how to access resources to ensure their child reaches academic proficiency.

Parents as Leaders – provides parents with the opportunity to develop the skills necessary to assume leadership roles in their schools and the community.

Parents as Learners – provides parents the opportunity to build upon their own skills for personal and professional development.

Parents as Trainers – provides parents with the knowledge, skills and experiences needed to educate other parents as part of the Hartford Parent University. 

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CALLING FATHERS

Join us this Saturday December 10, 2016 between 8:30 am - 2:30 pm

At the University High School of Sciene & Engineering

351 Mark Twain Drive, Hartford, CT 06112

Hartford Parent University Learning Sessions

continue as we discuss "Student Centered Learning"

Guest Speaker: Elizabeth Horton Sheff

 

Food, childcare and transportation will be provided

Awareness Day Trailer

Shout Out

empowering

Open_Letter

Poverty - Fatherhood Series

FatherForum

Father_Awareness_HPS

Dr. Rodney Libert from Hartford Public Schools on Vimeo.
Justin Taylor, August, 2014 from Hartford Public Schools on Vimeo.

Morgan Freeman's Thoughts on #blacklivesmatter and #alllivesmatter racism

dads_daughter

Tax Scams

MANHOOD

outreach

HPU

HARTFORD PARENT UNIVERSITY

ENGAGING - EMPOWERING - MOBILIZING

The Hartford Parent University (HPU) is a parent-led and community collaborative 501(c)(3) independent organization that engages, empowers, mobilizes and trains parents to advocate and support not only their child's learning but their own personal learning.

Through a series of sessions/classes offered at HPU parents will be provided an opportunity to increase their knowledge on what children are learning at school, child development, advocacy, parent leadership and parenting skills. 

Connector to other Community Organizations/Family Learning Opportunities

Hartford Parent University serves as a "one stop center" for parents to be aware of other existing/new programs being offered in the Hartford community that provides parents family learning opportunities. A schedule of offered programs throughout the community will be provided to parents during learning sessions and monthly classes. Any organization that would like to participate, please contact us for more information at info@hartfordparentuniverisity.org.

How does Hartford Parent University work? 

The Hartford Parent University offers: 

Three Saturday learning sessions a year for parents to participate in

classes of their choice -- Nov, Jan, May

Monthly classes at schools, libraries, and community centers

Graduation for parents who have completed the required classes -- June

Hartford Parent University is free to all parents and care-givers.

1.   .  The important role of advocacy in education.

2.     "It's All About The Students" 

3.     Executive Director of Hartford Parent University, Milly tells the State Board members about the advocacy of the Clark parents and urged theirs support for Clark School parents.

4.     The Equity Project 

5.     The HPU Fatherhood Initiative                GRADUATES

NEWSWORTHY

November 13, 2012|By VANESSA DE LA TORRE, vdelatorre@courant.com, The Hartford Courant

HARTFORD — — The Hartford University will soon be in session.

The parent-led group, founded by Milly Arciniegas, will offer free training this weekend to city mothers, fathers and guardians on how they can become leaders and advocates for their children in the public schools. The parents will be taught by other Hartford parents.

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RealDads

teen_dads

Panel of young dads share their stories to high school students in Stratford, Connecticut

researcrhes

Dads are drawing new attention in the laboratory as researcrhes try to create new measures that give fathers their due. WSJ's Sue Shellenbarger reports.

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Having extensive public engagement and being 



accountable to parents and the community.

HBOE_SGC

We believe schools have an enormous impact on students’ lives. We believe that all parents must be empowered to play an active role in their students’ education. We believe that community collaboration is fundamental to achieving and sustaining excellence.

Blueprint

Father's Day Community Outreach

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Teens_ SocialMedia_Good

motivating

team

boonies

Why

Adoption

wasted_food

Board_of_Ed

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DREAM HOME – Marriage is God's idea

"The bible starts with a wedding, then it turns into a war"

1 – Hollywood Vs. God

2 – From Romance to Real Love

3 – Keeping Love Alive

4 – Navigating the Negative

5 – A Winning Team

6 – Real Parenting

7 – Target the Heart

8 – Practicing Building Belief

9 – Influence Trumps Authority

10 – Turning Your Hearts

11 – Happy Over Holy

12 – When They Wander

Through_It

We_R_the_World

JOURNEY

10_Rules

1. Improve your attitude
When he was seventeen he joined the United States Marines.

2. Recognize opportunity
He was on the USS Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor and was one of fifteen surviving Marines on board that day.

3. Exercise your mind
After the war, he began work in the radio industry.

4. Invest in yourself
He eventually started to work as a motivational speaker.

5. Increase your service
In 1949, he was inspired while reading Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.

6. Become irreplaceable
In 1956, he produced a spoken word record, The Strangest Secret, which sold over a million copies.

7. Don't follow the follower
In 1960, a condensed audio version of Think and Grow Rich was narrated by him.

8. Treat your customers well
In 1960, he co-founded the Nightingale-Conant corporation with Lloyd Conant.

9. Learn how to solve problems
His radio program, Our Changing World, became the most highly syndicated radio program ever.

10. We become what we think about
During his lifetime, he wrote and recorded over 7,000 radio programs.

Parent_University

Hartford Parent University serves as a "one stop center" for parents to be aware of other existing/new programs being offered in the Hartford community that provides parents family learning opportunities. A schedule of offered programs throughout the community will be provided to parents during learning sessions and monthly classes.

father_n_son

Today at our Father Support Group 
we got some insights into: 
1. The leadership role of a father
2. Understanding accepting and accommodating male/female differences
3. Being connected - communication without assumption

Positive_Classroom_Behavior_Support

PBIS_Overview

Funniest_Fathers

NCHB

Excerpt from Bush's final State of the Union address - Jan. 28, 2008:

"On education, we must trust students to learn if given the chance and empower parents to demand results from our schools. In neighborhoods across our country, there are boys and girls with dreams — and a decent education is their only hope of achieving them. Six years ago, we came together to pass the No Child Left Behind Act, and today no one can deny its results. Last year, fourth and eighth graders achieved the highest math scores on record. Reading scores are on the rise. And African-American and Hispanic students posted all-time highs. Now we must work together to increase accountability, add flexibility for States and districts, reduce the number of high school dropouts, and provide extra help for struggling schools. Members of Congress: The No Child Left Behind Act is a bipartisan achievement. It is succeeding. And we owe it to America's children, their parents, and their teachers to strengthen this good law.

We must also do more to help children when their schools do not measure up. Thanks to the D.C. Opportunity Scholarships you approved, more than 2,600 of the poorest children in our Nation's capital have found new hope at a faith-based or other non-public school. Sadly, these schools are disappearing at an alarming rate in many of America's inner cities. So I will convene a White House summit aimed at strengthening these lifelines of learning. And to open the doors of these schools to more children, I ask you to support a new $300 million program called Pell Grants for Kids. We have seen how Pell Grants help low-income college students realize their full potential. Together, we have expanded the size and reach of these grants. Now let's apply that same spirit to help liberate poor children trapped in failing public schools."