Category : “Parent Involvment”

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Vacation Homework- 10 Lessons Parents can Teach on Vacation

March 27, 2023Sara Mora Parent Involvment

“Hi Mrs. Mora, we’re going out of town next week and I wanted to see if you could gather my child’s work before we leave to have him do while we are on the trip. Thanks!” Have you gotten this

CommunityShare: The Human Library

January 29, 2023Sara Mora Education, Parent Involvment, Professional Development, Teacher Leadership, Uncategorized

“Sara! I am so inspired!” That is what I heard each month when my colleague, Rebecca Oravec, would call me after her CommunityShare Fellowship meetings a few years ago. Our principal sent out an invite to participate in a monthly

Parent/Teacher Conferences

October 11, 2021Sarah Kirchoff Education, Elementary, Life in the Classroom, Parent Involvment

“Conferences will be at the end of the quarter, make sure you are ready!” Where did the quarter go? Time to spend time assessing and gathering data to show parents. We also need to spend time reflecting on the students

Teacher/Parent Paradox

October 11, 2020Jaime Festa-Daigle Current Affairs, Education Policy, Equity, Parent Involvment

I left for work the other morning and realized that I would not see my son for another 12 plus hours. He would be at home, on his own, working through his junior year. Leading a district in COVID times

Helping Parents Be Less Helpful

September 30, 2020Nicole Wolff Education, Elementary, Life in the Classroom, Parent Involvment

I was doing a virtual walkthrough in a Kindergarten teacher’s Zoom classroom. The lesson was on high frequency words. The teacher led the class through her lesson with an energy unique to Kindergarten teachers. She had them working. They began

How to get your Students to Stop Trolling

August 31, 2020Maria Fallon Current Affairs, Education, Elementary, Life in the Classroom, Parent Involvment, Uncategorized

Ughhh, that was tough! That was all I could say as I wrapped up my second week of virtual teaching. The first few weeks have been nonstop: professional development, grade level collaboration, individual Zoom meetings with each student and their

A Plea for Play

February 20, 2020Beth Maloney Current Affairs, Education, Education Policy, Elementary, Life in the Classroom, Parent Involvment, Social Issues

When I was little, I used to say to my friends, “Meet me at my swing set.” My daughter says, “I’m meeting my friend at the left corner of Stomp io” (an Internet game). This is true for many parents

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Responding To Not So Nice Emails

December 10, 2019Elizabeth Schley Evans Education, Parent Involvment, Teacher Leadership

Chances are, you have been on the receiving end of an email from a parent, a colleague, or someone else that is less than kind. I‘ve worked with many teachers who need help responding to these emails and I’ve devised

Lessons in Loss, Failure, and Apathy: The Dysart Override/Bond Election

November 15, 2019Beth Maloney Current Affairs, Education, Education Policy, Parent Involvment, Social Issues

Our bond and override election didn’t pass. Initially, I didn’t know what to say when everyone asked me in an incredulous tone “So…what happened there?” I’m trying not to be bitter about my hours of door-knocking. I’m trying to ignore

How I Connect With Families

November 4, 2019Kyle Bragg Education, Life in the Classroom, Parent Involvment, Uncategorized

How often have you lost precious planning time because you were busy communicating with parents? How about getting so caught up in lesson planing that you completely forget to get back to parents? Too many teachers face this problem daily, and I

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