Communicating with families builds stronger relationships and helps support students in their learning. Strategies and ideas to help create a classroom environment with an effective communication system are listed in this section.
National Parent Involvement Standard: Families and school staff engage in regular, two-way, meaningful communication about student learning.
The National Parent Involvement Standards:
Goal 1: Sharing Information Between School and FamiliesDoes the school keep all families informed about important issues and events and make it easy for families to communicate with teachers?
Goal 1: Sharing Information Between School and FamiliesDoes the school keep all families informed about important issues and events and make it easy for families to communicate with teachers?
❖ Using multiple communication paths
❖ Surveying families to identify issues and concerns
❖ Having access to the principal
❖ Providing information on current issues
❖ Facilitating connections among families
Suggestions for meeting this goal:
❖ Regular phone calls home
❖ Newsletters
❖ Home-school notebooks
❖ Class websites
❖ Give parents information on grade-level expectations
❖ Report cards (invite parents to respond)
❖ Parent-teacher conferences, follow up
❖ Send home student work for families to see
❖ Audio/visual message updates
❖ Parent surveys
Templates:
❖ Here are some templates for class newsletters from Education World.
❖ The ReadWriteThink Printing Press is an online tool that helps you create newspapers, brochures, flyers and booklets.
Articles:
❖ This article suggests strategies for communicating with families in your classroom.
❖ Articles to help you create a classroom website:
Resources:
❖ Online translator sites to help communicate with all families:
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