Workshop #5 School violence, bullying, and shootings have become an epidemic, and it appears nothing can prevent this escalating trend. School bullying and cyberbullying are not new, and schools have initiated interventions by focusing on awareness and educating students, teachers, and parents to identify and prevent bullying. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to turn onContinue reading “How to reduce School Violence”
Workshop #3 In this activity titled “Face the Cookie,” parents and teachers must use their facial muscles to maneuver a cookie from their forehead into their mouths. This is a hilarious activity because the face functions in unusual ways, and the reward is a delicious cookie. Parents and teachers will interact in a novel way,Continue reading “Teachers can provide parents a “snap shot” of their child’s academic and behavior performance”
Workshop #2 Workshop #2 is where you share facts about yourself, including why you chose to be a teacher, your teaching experience, your passion, and how parental involvement can make you a more effective teacher. Identify and share things you have in common, your teaching objectives, student learning outcomes, and how you are evaluated. IdentifyContinue reading “Movin On Up”
Workshop #1 Your ultimate purpose is to build a community with the strength of its foundation being parent involvement. Therefore, as parents buy-in and offer their consent, you should gather information as this will be an essential source with which you will build a school community. Also, demographic information and the types of contact withContinue reading “Breaking the ice”
The following blog post presents important information from the online magazine WTOP News by Scott Gelman and published October 1, 2022 Fairfax County Public School students with disabilities are disproportionately suspended compared to their peers without disabilities, according to a new review. Students with disabilities in Virginia’s largest school system are disproportionately suspended compared toContinue reading “Fairfax Co. special education students disproportionately suspended, review finds”
The following blog post presents important information from the online magazine Chalkbeat by Amy Zimmer and Caroline Bauman and published September 1, 2022 New York City public schools plan to welcome back roughly 900,000 students next week, marking the start of yet another critical year. Many children continue to feel the academic and emotional tollContinue reading “NYC: What’s the No. 1 thing you’d like your school to provide this year?”
The following blog post presents important information from the online magazine USA TODAY by Mary Vought, opinion contributor and published September 29, 2022 You can’t say we didn’t warn you. In 2020 and 2021, parents across the United States said repeatedly and passionately that keeping schools closed because of the pandemic would hurt student achievement.Continue reading “Parents were demonized for demanding schools reopen sooner. Now, we know they were right.”
The following blog post presents important information from the online magazine The74 by Mark Keierleber and published September 28, 2022 New state test results released Wednesday by the New York City Department of Education offer a complicated picture of the pandemic’s effects on academic performance in America’s largest school district, showing students’ math performance tumbledContinue reading “4 Big Takeaways on the Pandemic’s Mixed Effects on NYC Students’ Test Scores”
The following blog post presents important information from the online magazine The74 by Andrea Johnson-McCatty and published September 25, 2022. Andrea Joseph-McCatty is an assistant professor at the College of Social Work at the University of Tennessee. Her research examines disproportional school suspensions and, in particular, the ways in which inequity impacts the experiences ofContinue reading “Black Girls Are 4.19 Times More Likely to Get Suspended Than White Girls”
Recognizing the impact parent involvement has on student success, and the urgency for schools to shift priorities to create a school environment that takes an active approach to parent involvement will find parent involvement can be easy and require less effort. Easy and less effort is what you are striving for. When schools create anContinue reading “The ABC’s of Parent Involvement”