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1. How do you currently communicate with your families? What tech do you currently use?

2. What do you currently communicate with your families? Do you include the technology you will be using? Expectations? Digital Citizenship?

3. What are some challenges you face in family communication?

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1. Curriculum night and parent teacher. Hard to beat a good old fashioned phone call! Individual email or group emails.

2. Course outline and expectations, ways they can support their child at home, expectations for the course and time they should spend at home on course homework. How I assess with general timelines to prepare for "stressful" events like unit tests.

3. Availability, time constraints, making a meaningful connection with over 100 families is impractical for a 4 month semester and we revert to formal, one-sided messaging as a result.

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1. Student progress is communicated through PowerSchool, course content is communicated via Moodle, and individual conversations use email and phone. We used to record videos with various technologies in lieu of Curriculum Night as well, which was quite useful.

2. I include a quick overview of technology used in the course, but this discussion occurs primarily with the students (grade 11+12).

3. Long distance area codes for phones are challenging, as school phones can't call them. Reaching families during school hours and lack of reliable access to technology for families are also concerns.

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1. We use email

2. There is limited communication with families thus far

3. What to share and when to share with them

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1 – I communicate by email mainly.

2 – I try to communicate positives and negatives. Sometimes it’s behaviour, sometimes it’s when someone seems to be struggling, sometimes it’s when they really rocked something, or went outside their comfort zone in class. I don’t communicate with parents enough honestly. I seem to have “increased parent communication” perpetually in my growth plan.

3 – Some families are unresponsive, and sometimes even hostile. Some become your new best friend, and I receive 2 emails a day for the next 3 weeks. Most however are great and appreciative of both negative and positive communication home, as in high school it doesn’t happen all that often.

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1. I communicate mostly through phone calls and emails. Last year my case load changed every 6ish weeks so I was in communication with new families frequently. I want to start using Seesaw to share work with families.

2. Currently, I communicate with families explaining my role and how I will be supporting their learner. I will also share updates with families about the progress their learners are making.

3. Some challenges are the number of families I communicate with, not having my own class of students, EAL families, and lack of access to technology.

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1. The majority of my communication is done through email but I also use the Seesaw app.

2. Seesaw lets me post class announcements as well as post photos of student work on their profile so that family members can only view their child's work.

3. My biggest challenge with family communication is involvement/engagement. It often feels like I can communicate information in several places and families still end up missing key things.

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1. Communication Plan created in Google Docs and posted on Google Classroom (paper copy sent home & families invited to GC via email). Family-Teacher meetings; emails; phone calls.

2. Communicate expectations and course delivery, methods of assessment, timeline, etc. Our school has sent out their own communication with families about responsible technology use and care.

3. Not all families have access to tech/internet at home. Some families don't respond to multiple and varied attempts to reach them. Some families reach out at all times of the day, or try to find me on social media instead of using work contacts.

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1 - Email generally serves as the primary point of contact. Face to Face and telephone also play a role. Occasionally, use tech for meets or conferences (google, zoom)

2- Schedules, outlines, resources, announcements. Usually include links and/or brief explanations to the tech being used. Expectations and Digital citizenship usually covered in class/course outlines

3 - Coordinating schedules, time

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1. Parents are access google classroom, communication plan is always posted, extra help resources are available there. Also email and phone parents for specific concerns as they arrise.

2. extra help resources are apps the link to topics in class, also post videos from popular youtubers that teach topics I have taught in class.

3. I find in challenging to keep a regular website updated for parents to follow.

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As a Learning Support Teacher I communicate with families through email, phone calls, and paper letters.

I currently use chromebooks, iPads, and C-pens with students.

I communicate who I am and how I will support their child to start. In the personalized plans and intervention documents I include the tech that will be used to support learning: Lalilo, Google Read and write, Book creator, Magic School, Raz kids. I don't specifically include the expectations or digital citizenship guidelines as that is typically part of the classroom teacher's communication with home, but I do share expectations clearly with students.

Some of the challenges we face are family access and ease of use with technology and internet speed/connectivity.

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1. To communicate with the family, I send the communication plan home via email with the class code. I let the parents know that email is my preferred method of communication and that they can call my classroom and lead a voicemail in which i will return after 3:15. For parent night on the 14th. I wont be at school, so I will record a video and post a Qr code so parents can virtually meet me.

2. I communicate that we will be using chrome books, the cell phone policy.. i should include the AI policy that I encourage and allow it with guidance and support.

3. When emails are not updated it is difficult. Sometimes you just don't receive a message back. In high school parents tend to think that you did something to their child to make them act a certain way. That can be a challenge when I am trying to support them.

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1. I currently communicate with families using email and occasional phone calls for significant issues. I send mass emails to my HS parents near the end of each major unit. Parents have access to PowerSchool for both formative and summative assessment grades and many choose to be included on a Google Classroom list where they can see the assignments / results posted for their student.

2. I communicate expectations, overview of the course and how parents can stay engaged via PowerSchool. Recently, I've touched on AI in my syllabus section on academic integrity.

3. Many parents in my school have long distance area codes or international phone numbers. Reaching them via phone is tough. I rely mostly on email as a result. Many of my parents also don't speak English. This is challenging because I often am forced to rely on the student I'm calling about to translate! This, again, makes email my preferred method of communication.

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When I was in Grade 2, I had a clearer communication plan that outlined in more detail what we would be exploring—such as tools, devices, and how they would be integrated into the classroom. I also incorporated the 6Cs as classroom goals when working with technology.

As a LC teacher, my main communication seems to be through email/in person conversations. I share work/pictures with families but trying to find other tools to make communication more efficient. I still let families know at the beginning of the year what technology tools we may be using in LC groups etc.

Challenges arise through time/access/language/engagement .

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1. Mostly emails or phone calls. I also include parents on the Google Classroom so they see class updates.

2. I communicate basic info, course outline and expectations, academic and behavioral updates. If we're doing specific projects/class work that require additional information I will reach out. Being a math teacher, not much of my parent communication centers around technology.

3. Not having a classroom phone and poor cell service in my room means a lot of phone calls in the parking lot. Trying to provide info to 120+ families about their child's progress in not always realistic as well.