Parent Connect
Connect with a community of parents at your child’s school and learn from experts on topics you are living every single day!
What is Parent Connect?
Parent Connect is School Connect program hosted at your local school, designed to provide a welcoming community for parents with practical, relevant ideas and community support! At the beginning of the school year, parents choose the topics they would like to discuss and then hear from experts on a new topic every month. Throughout the year parents are equipped and supported to help their kids to achieve their goals and develop the grit to never give up!
Gain Practical Tips
Develop practical parenting strategies with other parents
Be Future Focused
The foundation we build today is a long-term investment for tomorrow
Find Connection and Support
Together we share our victories and challenges to build connection and find support
Learn Together
Together we will learn, grow, and encourage one another
Learn more about Parent Connect!
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ASKED QUESTIONS
Parent Connect is a program hosted at your local school (often in the school library) and run by a staff member and a community partner or school champion. To join Parent Connect, simply complete the form above to find a location near you, or consider starting your own Parent Connect to support and engage parents at your school! As School Connect builds the program library of resources, Parent Connect may become virtually available as well.
Request a sample from the Parent Connect program library!
Parent Connect Library Samples
- What Every Parent of a High Schooler Should Know
- Helping Your Kids Navigate Anxiety
- Loving Our Kids in Their Most Challenging Moments
- The Impact of Social Media: How to Build Healthy, Resilient Kids in a Tech Driven World
- The Value of Parenting
- Social Emotional Support for Elementary Students
- Trauma Informed Parenting
The Parents’ Perspective
“I know that I’m going to leave more encouraged and strengthened than when I came. Everyone is super warm and welcoming. Everyone is going through the same things that you are.”
“Being with other like-minded people. Knowing that we are all in this together. We share our failures. We share our triumphs. You need this. I needed it! Try it!”
A Principal’s View
Why Principal Kristi Hammer of Cactus High School was one of the first schools to host Parent Connect. Principal Hammer wanted an opportunity for parents to come together and learn parenting together. She reminds us that we are here to win the hearts and minds of our kids. Come join a Parent Connect to find out what everyone is talking about!
More Ways to Get Involved!
Love Our Schools Day
Become a Part of Love Our Schools Day 2026
Are you a local school with a project? Love Our Schools Day is a project-based volunteer day when the community can roll up their sleeves at a local school and make a difference where it is needed most whether it is planting a garden, painting a classroom, or fixing up a playground. Complete the interest form to get involved!
Classroom to Career Workshop
You’re invited to the Classroom to Career Workshop on September 9th!
Join education and industry leaders for an experience where partnerships form, ideas flow, businesses tap into future growth and students are connected from the classroom to cutting edge career pathways!
What makes a child feel safe at school?
#BullyingPreventionMonth
Tag an educator to let them know they could win $2,500 to support their classroom!
‼️ Applications close TODAY for the Fiesta Sports Foundation`s Wishes for Teachers Program ‼️
👀 Apply at the link in our bio
What kind of projects do people do for Love Our Schools Day?
See what Shea Duryea of School Connect shares about how teams approach it and get their communities involved.
👀 👉 Want to be part of all the fun this fall?
Learn more at LoveOurSchoolsDay.com
One week left to apply! Five hundred Arizona public and charter school educators will be randomly selected to receive a $2,500 wish for their students and school communities!
Whether your wish would bring new books into students’ hands, make room for STEM exploration, create a more welcoming classroom, support the arts, or provide another resource your school needs—this is an opportunity to bring it to life.
We know educators carry so much. This program is a powerful reminder that it takes a village to help every student thrive—and that our educators deserve to be celebrated and supported.
Applications are open through September 30 at 10:00 p.m.
Eligible applicants include full-time Arizona public and charter K–12 school employees, including teachers, nurses, counselors, coaches, and more.
Thank you, Fiesta Bowl Charities and the Fiesta Sports Foundation, for investing so generously in the people who show up for Arizona students every day. (Link in comments)
Love Our Schools Day season is right around the corner (October through November)! If you`re part of a school or volunteer at one, this is the time to share your dream projects and invite your community to get involved!
In this short video, Shea Duryea talks more about how to do that.
Want to join in the fun? Learn more at LoveOurSchoolsDay.com!
