Should Teachers Give Their Phone Number To Parents?
Don’t go giving parents your personal phone number. Bad idea. Very bad idea. Sign up for Google Voice to text parents.
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7 Ways To Improve Parental Involvement In The Classroom
Everyone agrees that parental involvement in student learning is important, and in fact a key factor in their success.
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Why Parents Don’t Understand How To Help
Families and communities often only recognize the bits and pieces of education they’ve seen before–letter grades, essays, book reports, and report cards.
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Why Teachers Are The Sleeping Giant In The Fight For Net Neutrality
The end of net neutrality would put large internet service companies–and those who influence them–in control of information.
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7 Tips For Parents Of Struggling Readers
7 Tips For Parents Of Struggling Readers Literacy starts and ends at home. Teachers instruct, support, promote, and provide, but if the bulk of the reading and writing isn’t done at home for authentic purposes and self-directed recreation, it will always be a matter of academic proficiency. Which is like food being a matter of…
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Simple Tips For Teachers Communicating With Parents
Build relationships with parents at the beginning of the school year. This helps develop trust and opens the lines of communication.
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20 Questions Parents Should Ask Teachers About Their Child’s Education
One of the most significant challenges facing formal education in the United States is the chasm separating schools and communities.
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For Helicopter Parents That Help Too Much
6 Tongue-In-Cheek Tips For Helicopter Parents That Help Too Much by Anonymous Practicing Teacher That Cares We’ve all been there. We’ve worked a long grueling day only to come home and find out our child has a project due the next day. We’ve argued and threatened punishment over said project. We’ve been too tired to…
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Why It Can Seem That Parents Don’t Care
As long as communities have no voice in, or capacity to understand, curriculum, their interaction with schools will always be broken.
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Helping Parents Trust Your School
What Are The Best Resources For Building Parental Engagement? contributed by Alison Anderson, gettingsmart.com Parent engagement has always been a very bright spot on my radar when thinking about keys to success for schools. Lately, it feels important to distinguish between parent engagement and parent involvement. Both are important and something every school should strive…
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27 Ways To Increase Family Involvement In The Classroom
Improving the connection between school and home could yield a staggering improvement in both academic and “whole child” progress.
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12 Ways Parents Can Contribute to Education Reform
Parents have a right & responsibility to get involved in school reform. There’s a lot that you can do to improve education for your children.
