parent involvement

This is an informational letter you can use to send home to your parents to introduce blogging in your classroom. It is geared specifically for how I'm using blogging and email in my classroom. Feel free to change or adapt to your individual needs. Blogging

This is an informational letter you can use to send home to your parents to introduce blogging in your classroom. It is geared specifically for how I'm using blogging and email in my classroom. Feel free to change or adapt to your individual needs. Blogging

This EXCEL document is a sample report card our district made when we wanted to develop a more effective communication tool for parents and grade level educators. We added DRA levels to reflect balanced literacy and GLE's for a more precise evaluation tool. report card grades elementary

This is a handy tool to communicate a child's behavior and homework to parent's each day. on Tuesday, Mar 20 2007 at 05:00 PM behavior, homework

Although most schools have progress reports that are required to be sent home, I have created another parent report to be sent home in between the progress reports. This form is to notify parents of their child's current grade and progress in third grade. I have found that it is very much appreciated by parents. progress report, grades, third grade

This short video is an introduction to the learning community of videoconferencing and how it relates to student engagement. 

videoconference, Video Conference

This is a reproducible letter to send home to parents, informing them of situations in the classroom or at school. positive reinforcer, notes, communication, parents

This is a wonderful presentation for a parent night. It helps parents understand some of the differences between when they were in school and their students today. It helps them understand how they can better relate to their child and how to help them with school. It also explains the grading system and other pertinent policies. It would serve as a great starting point for other teachers looking to create a welcome presentation for parent night. Parent Night

A Parent Survey for the beginning of the year to get to know your studnets. Parent Survey

This is a note to send home to parents informing them of the upcoming science fair projects. It also includes a link to Discovery that will give them tips on ways to help with the projects. (name change and date change needed) science fair