“A Day in the Life of a Parent Coordinator” A Day in the Life of a Parent Coordinator is a nice, short audio slideshow from the National Education Association. Take two minutes of your time to check it out…
New Book On Parent Engagement A Cord of Three Strands: A New Approach to Parent Engagement in Schools is a new book being published by Harvard Education Press in March. It’s worth checking out the link. Anne T. Henderson speaks very positively about it, and that’s good enough for ...
Another Useful “Parent Trigger” Article Emily Alpert, a San Diego reporter on education issues (whose articles I like a lot), has written a good, short article on the parent trigger. It’s definitely worth reading…
“Parents as Teacher-Evaluators: The Care Test” Parents as Teacher-Evaluators: The Care Test is a post from my of my favorite bloggers, Renee Moore. Here’s how she ends it: *Caring is a qualification that should be part of every teacher’s evaluation, and parents may be our best tool for measuring ...
Parent Trigger Advocate Removed From CA State Board Of Education Yesterday, newly-elected Governor Jerry Brown made major changes to the California State Board of Education, including removing Ben Austin, the primary advocate of the parent trigger law. You can read all about it at a post by John Fensterwald. ...
“How Duncan Stayed Out Of “Trigger” Debate” Well, it appears that one of my predictions for the new year might be true — the Obama Administration is trying to reconcile a bit with teachers. Read Alexander Russo’s short post about how Ed Secretary Duncan has managed to stay out of the debate on ...
What In The World Are They Doing In Newark? Remember that $1 million they were spending in Newark to pay canvassers to find out from residents what they thought should happen in schools? The effort that I questioned in previous posts as a big waste of time since no long-standing relationships ...
California Parents Organize The Sacramento Bee published an article today about two Northern California parents groups merging — Parents Band Together To Support Public Schools.The two groups — one in theSan Francisco areaand the other in Sacramento – will be called Educate Our ...
“Building Positive Relationships with Parents in School-Age Programs” Building Positive Relationships with Parents in School-Age Programs is a short article that offers some good basic advice. It’s a PDF document that I found by chance online. It’s worth a look.
“Should Parents Have a Voice in Teacher Evaluation?” Should Parents Have a Voice in Teacher Evaluation? is a pretty thoughtful response by a blogger in Ed Week to a newspaper editorial advocating just that. It’s definitely worth a read….
Parent Trigger Supporters Attack PTA, Compare Schools To Batterers The Los Angeles Weekly, a big supporter of the parent trigger law, has just published a story that indicates that parent trigger supporters seem to be going over the edge… In the article, they are not only attacking teachers and their unions, but ...
More On Newark I’ve previously posted about my deep skepticism about the parent outreach efforts that are being done in Newark with the recent huge grant that was received. Here are some recent articles about the effort that have appeared in the media: A Deeper ...
The Importance Of Conversation In my book, I emphasize the importance of two-way *conversation* as opposed to the typical one-way *communication* schools use with parents — calls home to inform parents about problems with their children, notices given to students to carry home, ...
The Power Of A Positive Phone Call Home I’m a big advocate of teachers and administrators call parents when kids are doing well — not just when there’s a problem. You can read a post I’ve written titled “Mr. Ferlazzo, I Need My Post-It, Too” to give you one example of the enormous impact a ...
