Update On Ridiculous Florida Bill To Give Parents Grades I’ve written several posts about the unhelpful idea being pushed in Florida to have teachers grade parents. Happily, it doesn’t look like its making any kind of substantial progress. Here’s a news report giving an update and a Florida newspaper’s ...
“Parent Engagement Resources” Lorna Constantini from the great blog and webcast Parents As Partners as developed a great collection of Parent Engagement Resources. It’s definitely worth a visit.
President Obama On Parent Engagement I’ve just written a post at my other blog about today’s Univision Town Hall Meeting on Education with President Obama. Here’s is an excerpt from his comments: *What we’re trying to do as the government is to make sure that we’re providing more ...
“IB World: The Parents Issue” Our school has an International Baccalaureate program, and I teach a Theory Of Knowledge class as part of it. The IB magazine, IB World, had a “Parents Issue” late last year. There’s some stuff that might be useful.
What Was This New York Principal Thinking? *“Teachers at an East Harlem elementary school are bizarrely forbidden from communicating with parents without first getting a supervisor’s permission and from calling parents outside of normal school hours, the teachers handbook says.”* Read more ...
The “PTA Great Idea Bank” The “PTA Great Idea Bank” comes from…the National PTA, and has a huge quantity of parent involvement ideas. The quality is a decidedly uneven, but it could be a useful resource.
