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Academic Success

Michelle hagerty, MSW

Steven Huecker, LCSW

Carolyn Snyder, MSW

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Academic success starts at home

Academic success begins at HOME…

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  • Parental Involvement in School
  • Meeting Basic Needs
  • Sensitive and Respon­sive Parenting
  • School Attendance

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School Work Involvement

Ways parents/guardians can help promote academic success:

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  1. Assisting with homework
  2. Establishing a homework routine
  3. Providing a quiet place to study
  4. Reviewing graded assignments together
  5. Participating in school-related activities such as meeting with teach­ers and volunteering in the classroom
  6. Reading to children or engaging in other enrichment activities such as going on a walk together

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Basic Needs

It is also important to make sure a child’s basic needs are being met. If a child is hungry, thirsty, or tired it is difficult to focus on school work.

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Parenting styles impact A child’s educational development

The most effective parenting style is:

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  • Warm, attuned, and nurturing.
  • Allows for listen to the child.
  • Allows for autonomy and encourages independence.
  • Promotes reasoning with a child instead of demanding blind obedience.
  • Establishes clear rules for good behavior.

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school attendance is an important factor to student success

Chronic absences impacts even the greatest teachers ability to provide essential learning opportunities.

Missed days in Kindergarten are correlated with poorer outcomes for students when they enter 1st grade.

This pattern can continue all the way through high school and are associated with higher dropout rates for students.

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Community Resources

  • Salvation Army: 661-823-9508

(Food distribution Weekdays 9-11). Commodity boxes, 3rd Tuesday of each month)

  • Stallion Springs Church:

661-823-0799 (Food distribution, 2nd Saturday of each month at 10am)

  • Department of Human Services

Mojave: 661-824-7500 for County assistance

  • Community Action Partnerships:

661-322-2237. Food, utility Assistance, referral services

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  • College Community Services:

661-822-8223 for Mental Health Services for Adults and Children

  • Healing Connections:

661-228-0590 for Children's therapeutic services

  • Pregnancy Center: 661-823-8255
  • Regional Center tehachapi:

661-822-1288.Support services for developmental Disabilities

  • CA Bridge Program at Adventist

Hospital tehachapi: 661-771-8610. Ask for the substance use navigator for SUD related issues

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