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It’s never too early to plan ahead! Please see the table below for the SOL testing dates for our students in Grades 3-6. Please make every attempt to schedule appointments around these dates.
If you purchased a device for your child this holiday
season, FCPS wants to help you support your child in the online world. If
the device is internet-enabled, please consider the following tips and
resources:
Educate yourself and your children.
Digital citizenship is a learning process and your child
will need sustained support from parents and teachers. Visit bit.ly/fairfaxdigcit for a fun and interactive parent-child course that can help your
family start conversations about navigating the online world.
Establish rules and expectations.
Have you thought about the rules you want to establish with
your child for setting up accounts and the privacy settings you expect your
child to use? What are your expectations and how will you monitor your
child’s online activities? Not sure where to start? Try these tip sheets, media agreements, and device contracts.
Help your child monitor and manage their screen time.
It’s easy to spend hours on a device, especially when it's
new. Use these guidelines and strategies to help your children learn to monitor and manage their screen
time.
Discuss privacy settings and accounts.
Teach your child to protect their personal information and
model the use of privacy settings. Discuss why these settings are
important and teach them how to make privacy setting choices for every app and
service they use. This resource can help you get started.
Give your child action steps.
Discuss potential situations that may arise before they
happen and give your child action steps. Do they know what they can do if cyber
bullied, harassed, or if someone sends them something they don’t want to see?
Every difficult situation is an opportunity to help prepare them for life
beyond your home. These short parent advice
videos, which can be filtered by topic and
age, can help you identify action steps you can share with your child.
Teach your child to assess risks and make good choices.
Online communication is public and permanent. Talk with your
children regularly and remind them that what they do online can impact future
opportunities. Their online reputation can also affect their relationships in
the face to face world.
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