Parents, just as your child’s success in school begins with a plan, you can also develop a plan for how you can inspire more academic ambition within your child!  The following road map includes action steps you can select to help your child succeed!

Once your Roadmap has been submitted, you will receive automatic emails to remind you of your commitment and help keep you, and your child, on track.

Remember, you make the difference in your child’s academic success!

Create Your Academic Roadmap

	Academic Support: I will inquire daily about my child’s coursework and class assignments. I will commit at least hours per week of uninterrupted time to help my child with studying and coursework.
	Preparation for Success At Home: I will ensure that no other extracurricular or home activity competes with my child’s commitment to academic success. This includes ensuring that my child has adequate time to complete studying and coursework before he/she is committed to extracurricular or house activities.
	Preparation for Success At Home: I will limit my child’s interaction with TV, video games and social media to no more than two hours per day in order to create more time for studying and coursework.
	Keeping My Child Accountable: I will enforce high standards for my child’s academic performance—setting the expectation that privileges will be revoked if my child brings home a grade that is lower than a B.
	My Personal Involvement: I will hold myself accountable for my child’s success in school. If I have not already, I will contact each of my child’s teachers to introduce myself and set up a schedule for corresponding at least monthly for a status check on my child’s performance in the classroom.
	My Personal Involvement: If my child is involved in extracurricular activities, I will ensure that those activities do not interfere with his/her responsibility to complete homework or studying requirements even if it means my child needs to stay up later to complete coursework.
	Environment that Stimulates Learning: I will work with my child to develop and stay on track with a summer reading list that consists of at least six books, which research indicates is the best amount to avoid “brain drain” during the summer months.
	Preparation for Success in College: I will work with my child to identify an extracurricular activity or academic program that promotes a love of learning and improves his/her competitiveness for getting into a good college.
	Preparation for Success in Life: I will check in with my child at least twice during the academic school year to discuss college and/or career goals and to identify the kinds of experiences and programs that will help my child learn more about his/her college and career interests.
	Preparation for Success in Life: I will actively seek out and identify a respectable mentor to provide guidance and advice to my child regarding his/her chosen college and/or career pursuits.
	Environment that Rewards Academic Success: I will work with my child to set goals for academic success and I will provide a tangible acknowledgement and a reward to my child whenever he/she achieves those goals or exhibits the behaviors that lead to the attainment of these goals.
	I will actively celebrate and applaud my child’s academic accomplishments more than any other accomplishments. I will also celebrate and cheer public figures who succeed in intellectual or academic achievements as much as those who succeed in other types of achievements.

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