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The google form would be great to use. Just send it out in the School Newsletter blast. Beginning with parents would be a good starting point, but I agree with Carrie that we should open it up even further to relatives and neighbors. The form should include if they are willing to skype. It would be great to have a chance to skype with someone in a different location of the United States (or world) when we are studying our weather unit. While we are tracking sun and high temperatures in "winter" it would be interesting for our students to see there really is snow in other places.

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I definitely agree that a Google Form needs to be created... but we need to think broader than our parents.  Have parents send to relatives and neighbors.  There are many former RCE parents who would be willing to share their knowledge in person or via skype.  We have a scientist parent that is moving to England, and I'm sure she would still Skype with us.  There are so many engineer parents that would be great to come into Science lessons.  This would also support our Genius Hour projects as well! Our opportunities are endless!

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Maybe we could create a google form for parents to fill out. Here we could find out their field of expertise, available hours to visit classroom, willingness to skype, openness to being a part of a discussion board for students to interact with... just some examples. It's a great idea to involve our community, and for students to hear from others in the neighborhood about something they themselves might have an interest in.

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Kate E.                                     I would like to know what are some appropriate inventions/appliances/products that parents are really experienced in that they might be willing to share it's benefits and what it was like without. This could help encourage students to find easy projects to research. 

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Kate E.                                     I would like to know what are some appropriate inventions/appliances/products that parents are really experienced in that they might be willing to share it's benefits and what it was like without. This could help encourage students to find easy projects to research. 

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This year I sent out an email asking parents if they would be willing to be a Junior Achievement volunteer.  JA has great lessons that go right along with the financial literacy math TEKS at each grade level.  Both the moms who taught my classes just used the JA resources with prewritten step-by-step lesson plans.  They are so well written  that any parent volunteer could follow them successfully.  The moms were also very good about connecting skills they knew they were learning in math class to the business world, so we should use the data base to also recruit JA volunteers.

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I would love a list of parents, grandparents and/or friends of families who are writers, authors, or grammar fanatics. I would also like to Skype with those parents at their work place similar to a virtual field trip.

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I have always thought that this is a great way to utilize our community support. For Junior Achievement this year, we had two parents teach our kids and the kiddos loved it. It changed up the classroom environment. I have had several friends even ask if there was a way they could come in and share about their field (engineers, lawyers, etc.). A lawyer friend was wanting to come in and do a mock trial (he is started planning how it could relate to our TEKS). If we did some sort of career day once every few weeks, the kids passion projects could be even richer!

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As mentioned, it would be beneficial to have a database of parent careers as well as what company they work for. It is very beneficial for students to see how skills learned in school are useful for the real world.

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Is this something we could add to the Big Form/Green Volunteer Form.  Parents could state if they would be interested in volunteering to visit/Skype with students at RCE. This would be a great starting point, and a form that parents already fill out at the beginning of the year.

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I agree with everyone that has said they would like a list of parent careers. Many parents in our neighborhood are involved in math related fields. I would love to have them share their knowledge and experiences with our students.

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It would be nice to have a database of parents and their career interests to pull from. I can think of many ways in which we could use their expertise advice.

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I agree with Lou Ann...it would be cool if we had some kind of database where teachers could utilize all RCE parents. I also agree with her in regards to exposing our kids at a young age to as many career choices as possible. It will be super helpful as they get to high school and have to choice a career path. I have used parents in my classroom in the past to come in to my room and share their passion or job choice ...the results are amazing, not to mention how much the kids absolutely love it! We are very lucky at Rummel Creek to have so many working parents with important jobs that are willing to come in and share when asked...we need to ask more often.

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I added a line on the student information form I created with this in mind:  What interest or skill do you have that you'd be willing to share with kids?  Obviously, knowing the times they are available would be helpful.  Our newsletter with short blurbs about what was coming was often a jumping off point. Parents want to share, but need to know where it fits into our curriculum.
Also, I agree with Lou Ann that females who are experts in science/math would be great!  I had moms in my room last year who are engineers, a physician, an accountant, and an aquatic biologist/biology teacher.  One time, the biology teacher sent in a big tub of shells and a powerpoint that I used to teach about the shells.
All the above were great resources and they enjoyed working with kids.  We had to be flexible with scheduling at times, but it was totally worth it.

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I would be cool to have a list of parents that would talk to kids about their careers and/or topics. I would like to see females on the list that can talk about careers in science and math. We have a lot of physician moms in our neighborhood. We expect our high school students to choose career paths when choosing courses, but we do little to expose them to actual careers.  Candace, we had a mom in kinder a few years back that was a scientist. She would do such cool experiments with my kids. She works for Chevron, I believe.

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I would like to know of any parents that are lawyers so that they could possibly assist in our mock trial in social studies.  We need them to come for multiple visits, so knowing the time of day they that works for them would be helpful.  We have the flexibility to move our classes around to accommodate them, but just need that information.  We could actually Skype with them, but I prefer having them live.

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I would like to know of any parents that are lawyers so that they could possibly assist in our mock trial in social studies.  We need them to come for multiple visits, so knowing the time of day they that works for them would be helpful.  We have the flexibility to move our classes around to accommodate them, but just need that information.  We could actually Skype with them, but I prefer having them live.

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I would like have a list of who is a working scientist. One of the TEKS is study about science careers and it would be really fun to skype in someone in a real lab!

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Maybe not an expert-- but I know that many parents work and skype might make it easier for them to read to the class a special book that might go with their work or with one of our science or social studies units.

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I think that it would be useful to utilize parents to come in and teach our kids some valuable science lessons. This would be similar to Hands On Science, but for the little ones.

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I agree with Theresa, also maybe are they more comfortable coming in and speaking or working with a group or doing it via Skype?

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I think it would be best to know what times of days they would be available.
Can we back channel some questions during the Skype?
What are their expertise?
Do they have any hobbies that they would be willing to discuss if it fits our curriculum.
I think it might be nice to know their education route... or what made them to decide that "xyz" was what they wanted to do.

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What information do we need to have from parents so that you could successfully invite a parent as an expert to  your classroom??

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What information do we need to have from parents so that you could successfully invite a parent as an expert to  your classroom??