Unlock Your Parent Potential.
Transform Everyday Moments into Classroom Confidence and a Love of Learning
How it works:
Parent Potential gives you the tools and strategies to truly support your child as they navigate the academic and social challenges of school for students from Kindergarten through 5th grade.
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Select a Learning Target Card
Select a Learning Target Card
Select a Learning Target Card
Pick the card that matches what your child is working on right now. Each one is tied to a specific skill and grade-level standard.
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Explore the Back of the Card
Explore the Back of the Card
Engaging and Fun
On the back of the card, your child will see graphics and prompts to help them engage with you in the task.
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Parent 3
Explore the Dashboard
Explore the Dashboard
Mission Control for Parents
Scan the QR code on the front. Once you register your redemption code with the purchase of the Parent Potential Toolkit, you will have access to a digital dashboard, virtual learning models, and a vast array of digital resources to make this easy.
When you scan the front of a card, it will take you directly to the parent instructions for that learning target. You will see which habit you will use, and step-by-step guidance on how to prompt through the activity.
Once completed, you can click the checkbox to keep track of progress using the digital dashboard, which gives you a weekly snapshot that aggregates your progress and makes it easy to celebrate accomplishments!
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Open the Innovation Notebook
Open the Innovation Notebook
This is NOT a Workbook
This is a blank-page, creative launchpad complete with both graph paper and lined paper to practice habits and projects. It includes inserts with progress trackers and custom sticker puzzles to celebrate accomplishments. Guaranteed to be a keepsake you look back on!
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You Provide the Sunshine!
You Provide the Sunshine!
Spends 20 Minutes Together
Whether it's in the car, at the kitchen table, or during a bedtime story, there is an opportunity to share a love of learning. All of our learning targets use one of our 4 habits, so you can support your child on their grade level's Common Core standards like a pro.
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Deepen Your Practice
Deepen Your Practice
Virtual Learning Modules
Learning Audit
Projects
Independent Study
Parent Potential Community
Deepen Your Practice
Deepen Your Practice
Deepen Your Practice
Every time you finish a card together, come back here to reflect on how it went, then choose one of the paths below whenever your family is ready to go further.
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Virtual Learning Modules
Virtual Learning Modules
Virtual Learning Modules
You are just a click away from unlocking expert guidance for every step of the journey. Mr. M has gathered a team of teacher experts at each grade level who have supported him in creating a library of techniques using the 4 habits.
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Learning Audit
Learning Audit
Learning Audit and Mentorship
We have also gathered a team of Parent Potential educators who believe in the mission. Mr. M and a small team of core grade level expert teachers can meet with you virtually by appointment to provide you the specific guidance for your child’s needs and your family schedule.
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Projects
Projects
Projects
Empower your child’s learning at home with our hands-on, standards-aligned Project Cards — designed to transform everyday household moments into powerful educational milestones. Built on a simple, proven I Do / We Do coaching framework, each card guides parents step-by-step through engaging, real-world activities in math, writing, and critical thinking.
Whether your early learner is comparing household objects with paperclip measurements or publishing their very first narrative story, these clear, actionable cards make home learning accessible, stress-free, and remarkably effective.
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Independent Study
Independent Study
Independent Study
The Parent Potential Independent Study Curriculum provides a structured, screen-free framework designed to help families guide foundational learning at home with confidence.
At the core of the program is the Learning Target Deck, which breaks down essential skills into clear, manageable daily goals, complemented by customizable Added Inserts to adapt to your child's pace.
Students actively record their growth and creative problem-solving in their personal Innovation Notebook, while parents stay organized using the Parent Weekly Planbook, complete with built-in progress assessments. Anchoring the entire experience is a comprehensive Monthly Scope and Sequence Plan, ensuring seamless alignment across reading, writing, and math without the prep-work overwhelm.
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Parent Potential Community
Parent Potential Community
Join a Movement in the Making!
Follow Parent Potential on one of these platforms and get insights from Mr. M’s monthly blog that can transform your family’s life. He interviews other educators and dives into the critical questions facing our educators as they prepare our next generation for an uncertain future.
With a Facebook community of over 1,500 followers, we host contests for project images, CarTalk topics, and more! You are not alone!
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On going Parent Education
Our 4 Habits
These allow you to teach and practice the core math and language standards in your grade level with effortless, bite-sized practice that builds skill fluency and confidence.
Modeling
Our most powerful habit. Grab a blank page, use our prompts, and show your child how to approach a new skill. This direct, stress-free connection is the fastest way to ensure grade-level mastery.
CarTalk
Turn your daily drive into a classroom. Use quick practice games to solidify math facts and phonics, prompt socratic reasoning, or use our SEL cards to help your child navigate friendships and emotions.
Listen and Write
Use these cards to supercharge reading skills. You say the sounds, words, or sentences, and your child writes them down—building the exact phonetic foundation they need to read with ease.
StoryTime
Whether at bedtime or on the weekend, elevate your reading routine. Our cards give you the exact questions to ask to build deep comprehension, ensuring your student is ready to lead classroom discussions.
This is different…
You Set the Pace
Parent Potential fits seamlessly into your family’s unique routine. Start with our base package to give a boost during everyday moments, or build deeper knowledge through our video tutorials.
For families taking on a more formal educational role, we provide a complete independent study curriculum.
Empowering and Engaging
Trade repetitive worksheets for real-world excitement that keeps kids genuinely engaged:
- Hands-On Projects: From family surveys to graphing trends and writing persuasive letters, kids apply skills to real life.
- The Innovation Notebook: Packed with blank lined and grid paper—a creative launchpad where no two notebooks look alike!
- Online Community: Custom grade-level sticker puzzles reward progress as kids unlock milestones and share in our community.
Aligned to the Standards
- Common Core Academic Standards: Mapped to K–3 grade-level requirements so you always know your child is on track.
- Character Education: Integrates essential Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) skills into everyday routines.
- Optional Digital Literacy: TechTool habits safely guide students to use digital tools with age-appropriate guidance.
What Parents Are Saying!
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"It was like flipping a switch and we never looked back."."
“Like so many parents in COVID, we found ourselves trying to teach our kids at home, we had mild success and spent most of our time just keeping the kids quiet so we could work from home.
My wife convinced me to ask for help.
Mr.M explained a few basic concepts of teaching and learning to me. I couldn’t believe how much confidence that tiny little bit of knowledge gave me and helped the kids become more intrinsically motivated to learn.
It was like flipping a switch and we never looked back!
— Albert, 5th Grade Parent, El Segundo
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“Now we can truly join in on the fun he has learning.”
While we haven’t had any issues with our son’s grades, we noticed him finishing his homework too quickly and his enthusiasm for school beginning to wane.
We reached out to Mr. M, and he gave us some great family project ideas and cool routines like CarTalk. Now, our son can show us what he’s doing at school, and we can truly join in on the fun he has learning!”
—Ritu, 3rd Grade Parent, Los Angeles
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"Mr. M’s 'learning target' framework takes jargon-laden standards and translates them for families so students take ownership of their learning
"Mr. M’s 'learning target' framework takes jargon-laden standards and translates them for families so they can take ownership of their learning. It helped our school regularly outperform district test scores. Parent Potential will beautifully expand this crucial connection between parents and schools!"
— Megan, Teacher and Parent of 2nd grader, Woodland Hills
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I spend so much time in the car with one or both boys, and sometimes struggle with how to move beyond the day-to-day chat into something that really gets them thinking. CarTalk is it!
“I spend so much time in the car with one or both boys, and sometimes struggle with how to move beyond the day-to-day chat into something that really gets them thinking. CarTalk is it!
The day after the workshop, I sparked up a debate about which Mario character was the best (lol you gotta start somewhere) and both boys were instantly SO into it – animated, engaged and excited to make their cases! We’ve had a few more moments like that since, which has been really fun.”
—- Eliza, Kinder and 2nd grade Mom, Los Angeles
“Drawing on more than 20 years as a principal and teacher mentor, I've distilled the most effective grade level strategies into practical guidance that fits your busy life.
Say goodbye to homework battles.
Watch your child become a confident learner who proudly raises their hand in class.”
Meet Mr.M
Mr. M | Founder & School Leader
When schools nationwide faced unprecedented disruption during COVID-19, Mr. M took a radically different approach at the charter school he founded in downtown Los Angeles…
He put parents first.
By partnering directly with families and treating the home as an extension of the classroom, his strategy defied national trends. While student performance dropped across the country, Mr. M’s students achieved dramatic academic gains, setting a bold new standard for resilient, community-driven education.
Get in Touch
Sign up to join our community and receive discounts to workshops, events and swag!
Join a movement in the making!
Follow Parent Potential on one of these platforms and get insights from Mr.M’s monthly blog that can transform your family’s life. He interviews other educators and dives into the critical questions facing our educators as they prepare our next generations for an uncertain future.
You are the sunshine for your little flower.
Upcoming Virtual Workshops
Problem of the Month
Each month, we will share a family problem from our “project card” selection. We encourage our Parent Potential Family to upload a screenshot of your scratch paper work as exemplars for our next visitors. Here is our first challenge:
📊 Taking Inventory
Goal: Estimate, count, organize data, and compare quantities using graphs and tally marks.
CA Standards: NBT1.1, OA1.5, OA1.2, MD1.3, NBT1.3
Day 1 Estimating Quantities (CarTalk)
Use CarTalk to choose which 4-5 collections to use as part of a house inventory. We want to find items that would have quantities between 20 and 100:
LEGO pieces
Coins
Baseball cards
crayons
socks
toy cars
Ask estimation questions such as:
“Do you think you have more or less than 100 coins?”
“How many more LEGO pieces than socks do you have?”
“About how many socks do you think there are in the house?”
Write estimates in the notebook when you return home.
Day 2 Counting & Tally Marks (Modeling)
Gather the collections and count the actual amounts.
Model using the note book to make tally marks grouped by 5 then count by 5 to get your totals.
Model other methods like making piles of 10 and counting by 10s for each.
Create a data table showing the estimated and actual amounts together.
Day 3 Creating Bar Graphs
Use graph paper to create a bar graph to compare these amounts. Depending on the number of items you have tallied, decide on a scale for your vertical axis. For example: 1 square = 5 objects
I DO Model graphing the first total of items and estimate.
Use a ruler to make a line at the correct amounts and draw the bars
WE DO the rest of the amounts and estimates in the same way
Model how to use the Bar Graph to compare the data by asking and answering questions like:
Which item had the greatest amount?
Which had the fewest?
Which estimate was the closest to the actual?
The Most Important School Supply Isn't in Your Child's Backpack. It's your time.
Every August brings that familiar mix of excitement and uncertainty as a new school year kicks off. 🎒
After nearly 15 years as a school principal, I’ve learned one constant truth: schools can teach reading, math, and science, but we can’t raise resilient, confident kids without parents leading the way.
The world is changing faster than schools can keep up, from AI in the classroom to evolving social dynamics. But the most powerful tool your child has is already at home—your relationship, your listening ear, and your optimism.