Good Recommendations On Who To Follow On Twitter For Parent Engagement Issues
Resourceful folks to follow on twitter: #Opp4All @Joe_Mazza @CommSchools pic.twitter.com/huaDTjC9Ph — L.A. Ed Partnership (@PartnerwithLAEP) April 9, 2014
The “Tooth Fairy” Parent Engagement Strategy
RT @Joe_Mazza: Edus who "get it"- @ChrisWejr's letter to tooth fairy for kid who lost a tooth at school #ptchat pic.twitter.com/HnsEEcTRcv — Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) April 9, 2014 I’d lay odds that the parents of that child are now going to be more open to family engagement activities after receiving this note…
A Thorough Obituary Of inBloom
A couple of days ago I wrote inBloom Is On Its Deathbed & No Tears Are Shed about the parent-opposed data-gathering fiasco known as inBloom. The Hechinger Report has since written a much more thorough obituary of inBloom, The fate of big data after inBloom. I’m adding it to The Best Posts On The inBloom Data Fiasco .
Department of Education Releases New Parent and Community Engagement Framework
Today, the Department of Education released what they call a new “Parent and Community Engagement Framework.” To tell you the truth, I’m not really sure what that means, but it can’t hurt for them to place a more public emphasis on parent engagement. You can read about it at the Department’s blog post; get a good overview of it at Education Week; and actually access it here. Of the documents they’
National Family Engagement Conference Began Today
Five hundred people are attending the National Family Engagement Conference in Cincinnati, which began today. You can read a pretty good overview of it at Education Week. Here are a few selected tweets that came out of the conference this afternoon: RT @Joe_Mazza: Anne Henderson starts by identifying new research on impact of stdnt learning tied 2 family engagement pic.twitter.com/KarxxBunVX — La
4-8-14 Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement"
Engaging Parents In School… | Going Beyond Parent "Involvement": inBloom Is On Its Deathbed & No Tears Are ShedinBloom, the ill-conceived, Gates-funded effort to collect just about every piece of data on just about every K-12 student in America (and opposed by parents across the United States), lost its only remaining customer last month when New York State withdrew from it. Here’s a