parent communication Archives

05 Apr 2019

3 Ways To AVOID ANGRY PARENT EMAILS

In this video, I share 3 tips that I use to help minimize the amount of angry parent emails. Nothing is full proof though, even if you do everything right, you won't always make everyone happy and that may result in an angry parent email coming your way eventually. 1. Be proactive, not reactive 2. Sent a positive note home 3. Carefully craft behavior notes Stories From The Classroom Podcast https://youtu.be/_q9KIVakRzQ

4 Tools To Organize Your Teaching LIfe

Here are 4 organizational tools that I’ve found super useful in the past year that perhaps you may find a use for in your classroom. Padlet WHAT PROBLEMS DOES IT SOLVE? I used to write instructions on the board, and in a pinch, I would open up Microsoft Word and type up the instructions for an assignment. When I was done, I never saved the Word files. A few days later, a student or parent would ask me to clarify some things on an assignment, and I would have to rehash it all out again. But not with Padlet! HOW…

Parent Communication Tech

When I received my teacher evaluation last year, one area that I didn't score as high as anticipated was in the area of parent communication, which sort of confused me. I had BCCed my AP each time I sent out an email to parents, which was fairly frequent. There was the sort of mini-newsletter each week discussing the things we were covering that week, there were the notifications about positive behavior I was seeing in some students, as well as the communiques about any inappropriate behavior that needed to be addressed. But through the midsts of all of that, there…