Sentences with phrase «schools reach out to parents»

Additionally, the most effective schools reached out to parents in other ways.

Not exact matches

Just as blockbusters are put out en masse during the summer months to reach out - of - school teenagers and young adults, videogames are traditionally released during the winter holiday season — when parents are more apt to spend $ 60 on a new game or up to $ 300 for a new system.

Communicating your school's nutrition program effectively means reaching out to a number of key groups; not just students and their parents, but teachers, administrators, custodians, and the community at - large.

Address these issues directly with the school, but if problems persist demand changes be made or reach out to the other parents for help.

What I find in the public school system is that the teachers and administrators have grown increasingly reluctant to reach out to the parents by simply picking up the phone.

Many parents reach out to me with concerns about preschool at the beginning of a new school year.

Of course charter schools are popular; motivated parents are so scared of public schools that they will reach out in desperation to anything that claims to be a better idea, no matter how empty that claim may be.

Public Advocate and mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio has stepped into the debate after parents from the school reached out to him.

Parents who have reached out to my office have expressed the position that they chose P.S. 122Q for their children primarily because of the auto - articulation into middle school.

Parents whose children are enrolled in P.S. 122Q have been reaching out to my office to express their strong opposition to any change in the current policy of allowing current students to auto - articulate into the middle school G&T.

It started by reaching out to all the stakeholders — parents, unions, school administrators, students, and teachers — and letting them know they were not alone.

Finally, Chapter 8, «Reaching Out to Parents,» and Chapter 9, «When Parents Visit the Classroom,» include practical suggestions for improving home - school communication, including ideas on how to involve parents in setting classroom goals, supporting classroom rules, and encouraging academic achieParents,» and Chapter 9, «When Parents Visit the Classroom,» include practical suggestions for improving home - school communication, including ideas on how to involve parents in setting classroom goals, supporting classroom rules, and encouraging academic achieParents Visit the Classroom,» include practical suggestions for improving home - school communication, including ideas on how to involve parents in setting classroom goals, supporting classroom rules, and encouraging academic achieparents in setting classroom goals, supporting classroom rules, and encouraging academic achievement.

We're bringing in principals, we're bringing in parents, reaching out to other arts groups... so while I feel like we're definitely feeling the cuts and we're seeing it in schools and suffering is happening with museums and cultural institutions in Chicago, at the same time there's a lot of energy and excitement about national conversations around the arts.»

Through this whole - family program, both schools have been able to reach out to parents and provide them with an opportunity to further their own education — a strategy that benefits parents, students, and, ultimately, the entire school community.

Berea Middle School, in Greenville, South Carolina, for example, not only has developed a laptop initiative using Title I funds that provide low - income students with much - needed access to Web - enabled computers, it also reaches out to the school's parent population at the sameSchool, in Greenville, South Carolina, for example, not only has developed a laptop initiative using Title I funds that provide low - income students with much - needed access to Web - enabled computers, it also reaches out to the school's parent population at the sameschool's parent population at the same time.

Working in partnership with your school's administration and parent organization, reach out to local entities that can connect your students with college graduates of color through volunteer activities, pen pal programs and college awareness programs.

If you can make five phone calls each day before heading home, you should be able to reach out with a positive message to each parent by the end of the first month of school.

In the past, many parents avoided school; they were uncomfortable with the language and cultural barriers, and, as a staff, we didn't do enough to reach out and make them feel welcome.

School officials should reach out to parents of English - language learners and encourage both student and parental literacy, says a study by the Education Policy Research Unit, a division of Tempe - based Arizona State University that conducts research on student - performance standards and curriculum.

The school has been working with a nonprofit to reach out to more parents.

The odds are higher that they will have lower - than - normal birth weights, lack access to regular medical care, live in a household headed by a single mother, become a victim of crime, have a parent who never finished high school, become pregnant before reaching adulthood, and drop out of school.

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Many schools today have set clear goals for increasing «family engagement,» and are rolling out systems and programs to reach parents.

When a parent or community member reaches out to the DC Public Charter School Board with a complaint against a school, our primary goal is to ensure that the schoSchool Board with a complaint against a school, our primary goal is to ensure that the schoschool, our primary goal is to ensure that the schoolschool has

Parents in the city of West Sacramento reached out to hundreds of other parents, organizing multiple community gardens at school sites that provided food to families, supplementary ingredients for school lunches, and opportunities for science instrParents in the city of West Sacramento reached out to hundreds of other parents, organizing multiple community gardens at school sites that provided food to families, supplementary ingredients for school lunches, and opportunities for science instrparents, organizing multiple community gardens at school sites that provided food to families, supplementary ingredients for school lunches, and opportunities for science instruction.

Administrators can use video newsletters to reach out to parents and students, share school or district events or fundraisers on social media, or make recruitment videos to boost enrollment.

The program reached out to parents, offered incentives to students, and carefully tracked attendance data provided by the schools.

Some school leaders reward their teachers who make an extra effort to reach out to single parents by coming in early, staying late, or coming in on a Saturday.

While realizing that correlation does not imply causation, we conclude that part of positive home - school relations, so often cited in the literature and so prevalent in our most effective schools, is making a concerted effort to reach out to parents.

Looking at both teacher and school factors, the analysis of links to families suggests that personnel in the most effective schools made a more concerted effort than personnel in other schools to reach out to parents.

Teachers and schools also have to go the extra mile to reach out to parents.

An initial reading of the case studies indicated that schools varied in the extent to which they reached out to parents.

When asked about reasons for their success, Stevenson and Hilltop mentioned the importance of strong home - school connections, reaching out to parents and making them feel like welcome partners in the school.

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Third, because families are the primary source of support for children's learning and development, community schools prioritize reaching out to parents and other family members to see what resources they need — from books to visiting nurse programs to mobile libraries and workforce development opportunities — and encourage them to be involved in the life of the school.

It also shows to school reformers why they must reach out to grassroots activists and parents to further their goals.

During the next two weeks, while Congress is on spring break, PAA members will reach out to their Senators and Congressmen in their home offices to share our views, talk about the reforms needed to improve our children's schools, and open up a positive dialogue between lawmakers and parents, who have the most at stake in stronger, more effective federal education policies.

My role as a parent - champion has been to show up: attend the meetings and information sessions the school sets up to introduce programs, call and email the principal and teachers, do my own research on the relevant issues, and reach out to other parents to encourage them to show up also.

In addition, some schools and communities do not fully understand the problems parents and families encounter and the importance of reaching out to them in order to build the kind of relationships that engage parents as true, active partners early in their children's education.

Then, at the begining of next school year, reach out to parents.

An elementary school outside of Atlanta, Georgia, reaches out to Latino parents to more clearly understand their needs and concerns and promote their participation in governance and advocacy.

Now, local members of the Wisconsin Education Association Council are turning their efforts toward school board races and reaching out to parents in an effort to eventually regain some influence in Madison.

As an example of gathering and communicating about data to extend conversations about equity, one district we recently worked with as part of an equity data review chose to reach out to a wide range of parent and community stakeholders to collect data about their experiences and perceptions of local schools.

And we reach out to families, through the Parent Liaison team where parents, of current and former students, provide advice and guidance all year round on the phone, email and in person for Arnold Foundation parents who are new to independent schools and boarding.

Over seven months, parents from the charter schools applying for PSC schools reached out to other parents, telling them about how PSC works, their experiences as charter parents and what their charter school could offer.

Chronic early absence decreases when educational institutions and communities actively communicate the importance of going to school regularly to all students and their parents, and reach out to families when their children begin to show patterns of excessive absence.

Creating magnet schools that appeal to middle - class parents, working with health and social service agencies, and reaching out to parents in culturally appropriate ways can make a significant difference for many Latino students.

Then they would, we go into talking about how do we get our, the support from our families, and how do we really reach out to parents and get them involved in our schools.

For more information please reach out to your school's parent liaison or office contact.

On May 3, the day after learning her daughter's school would not open, the parent reached out to MySchoolDC — the agency which handles school choice enrollment — for help finding an alternative.