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Originally delivered on 10/21/2024 11:49 am

SUBJECT: Parent Edge: Invitation to "Navigating School and Life from the Immigrant Experience" Parent Circle Discussion

Equipping families with ideas, insight, and community to help them thrive.

Not familiar with Parent Edge? Find more info at miparentedge.org

*Auto-translated subtitles are available for the recorded webinar via Youtube; and via Zoom  for the Parent Discussion. 

Dr. Belle Liang 的视频的自动翻译字幕在 Youtube 上可用,并且将通过 Zoom  链接提供给家长讨论。

Dr. Belle Liang  비디오에 대한 자동 번역 자막이 Youtube 에서 제공되며부모 토론은 Zoom  링크를 통해 제공될 예정입니다.


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https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81706581778
Meeting ID: 817 0658 1778

Step 1: RSVP to Parent Circle on "Navigating School and Family Life"

Haven't read the watched the webinar yet? Come anyway! There is no a requirement to join discussion, just a willingness to learn.

*Registration is requested but not required. 

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Step 2: Watch the "Navigating School and Family Life" Recording

This presentation is made possible through partnership with The Parent Venture.

Step 3: Bring Your Questions, Ideas, and Insights

After watching the webinar, did you have any "Aha!" moments? We'd love to hear what ideas or insights from Dr. Liang's talk challenged or resonated with you. 

Also, if you have ideas or questions you would like to include in the Parent Circle discussion about "Navigating School and Family Life from the Immigrant Experience," bring them! We will do our best to include all questions. 


Who is Dr. Belle Liang?

Belle Liang, PhD, co-author of "How to Navigate Life," helps students tap into their PURPOSE and find their own "true north." Dr. Belle Liang is Professor and Chair of the Department of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology in the Lynch School at Boston College.  To learn more about Dr. Belle Liang and her work, visit https://www.howtonavigate.com/

Why Parent Circles? In addition to offering great webinars on a variety of topics, we believe in providing opportunities to connect and grow with others after the webinar. Parent Edge will host Parent Circle discussion groups a few weeks after featured programs. This time is designed for you to meet other parents, discuss insights from the presentation, and share ideas on how to implement the learning in your everyday parenting.  

This Parent Circle is coordinated in partnership with Mercer Island Highschool PTSA and Islander Middle School PTSA.

2024-25 Program Themes


Technology and Digital Lives

Achievement Pressure

Social and Emotional Skill Building

Based on survey feedback from parents about topics most important to them, Parent Edge will spotlight these three themes. We continue to partner with Parent Venture, a non-profit organization, to showcase their line-up of well-known authors, speakers and parenting experts that focus on topics of highest interest to MI families.  

If you'd like to see Parent Venture's full line-up of speakers, we encourage you to subscribe to their resource packed newsletter.

What does that mean for you? These events will be accessible in a few ways:

  • Live webinar
  • Recorded programs (over 25 programs this year) and a large library of past programs
  • Spotlighted Parent Edge programming
  • Parent Circles: in-person, follow-up group conversations


New to the district? Wondering what Parent Edge is all about? Check out more info here.

Mercer Island Parent Edge is a program within the Mercer Island PTA Council. 
We coordinate events and programs for parents, students and educators. 
Our goal is to encourage dialogue and share best practices.

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