After getting home: School issues

Download various articles:

• Adoptive Families Magazine has lots of links to articles and handouts, with sample letters and how to handle trickly school assignments
• Education and Internationally Adopted Children: Working Collaboratively With Schools
• International Adoption: Information for Parents and Educators (2004) National Association of School Psychologists
• The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute's Policy & Practice Papers
• article from Teaching Tolerance magazine article "Out of the Shadows"

Transitioning from Home to a School Setting:

• Planning Transitions to Preschool

Helping family and friends understand about adoption:

• Institute for Adoption Information offers a brochure Why It Is Important To Understand Adoption

Helping teacher understand about adoption and curriculum:

• An Educator's Guide toAdoption Brochure -its around $8
• Teaching Tolerance Magazine
• "A" Is for Adoption: a teachers’ pocket guide to adoption issues in the classroom at Cradle.org
  order the book Adoption and the Schools from Families Adopting In Response
  order DVD/Video "I Wonder…” Teenagers Talk About Being Adopted from Families Adopting In Response
• Adoptive Families Magazine has lots of links to articles and handouts, with sample letters and how to handle trickly school assignments