“Building Stronger Relationships Between Families, Schools and Communities” Building Stronger Relationships Between Families, Schools and Communities is the title of a post at the National Education Association’s Priority Schools blog. The post includes a video where “Kim Oliver Burnim, a National Board Certified Teacher ...
Parents Get a Deal In Chicago I’ve previously written about a long-term parent sit-in at a school in Chicago where they were demanding a library be created. It looks like the parents got what they wanted for the school, and are just waiting for the school board to approve the ...
Schools, And Parent Engagement, Don’t Seem To Be Rahm Emanuel’s Strong Suit Rahm Emanuel gave an interview with the Chicago Tribune on Monday and spoke a lot about his plans for schools. They were all pretty bad, including his idea about parent engagement: *The city could reward schools with greater parental involvement by ...
“Digital Parent Engagement” Lorna Costantini has developed an excellent presentation on how schools can use technology to connect with parents. Check-out her Digital Parent Engagement – k12Online Conference 2010 presentation. This is how she describes it: *This video shares ...
Not A Good Message Via Comic Strip (Or Any Other Medium) Family Tree is a comic strip drawn by Signe Wilkinson which is often funny and insightful (coincidentally, thirty years ago she and I met several times in Philadelphia when I was an intern at the nonprofit where her husband worked). Her comic strip ...
What A Terrible Video About Parents & Schools With A Terrible Message Parent Revolution, the charter school affiliated group behind the faulty and ill-conceived “parent trigger” mechanism in California the facilitates charter school takeovers of schools, has produced an awful video to publicize this “trigger.” It ...
