https://padlet.com/karaeshea/wd6ard0rj5xm What is the best way for teachers to communicate with parents? en-us 2018-09-27 16:50:52 UTC 2018-09-30 12:44:04 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Lightdecrease.png asinging https://padlet.com/karaeshea/wd6ard0rj5xm/wish/287156775 https://www.remind.com/
This is one way that you can send out reminders to help parents remember permission slips, activities, or special supplies.]]> 2018-09-28 22:28:46 UTC https://padlet.com/karaeshea/wd6ard0rj5xm/wish/287156775 asinging https://padlet.com/karaeshea/wd6ard0rj5xm/wish/287156891 https://www.classdojo.com/
I have used class dojo the last couple years and really liked it. It made it so easy to send out quick positive comments to parents and to post pictures of class activities. With 600 students it made communication so much easier on me. Parents sign up with your class information. Classroom teachers then shared the classrooms with music, art, and PE. Then we could contact parents in each class as well as the parents contact us. Our school has moved away from it this year and that crushed me. I really think it is a wonderful tool.]]> 2018-09-28 22:30:27 UTC https://padlet.com/karaeshea/wd6ard0rj5xm/wish/287156891 asinging https://padlet.com/karaeshea/wd6ard0rj5xm/wish/287157538 All of our teachers have a teacher website that contains multiple pages. We are required to have certain information like our class syllabus, contact information, daily schedule, and student work. If you use google sites you can set up a folder for your newsletter page and student work/phot/video page. Then you drag items into the folder and they automatically appear on the page. You do not have to log into your site each time. This makes it easy to constantly add or delete pictures and newsletters to keep it current. Just make sure you remember everything in the folder is public and will appear.]]> 2018-09-28 22:41:26 UTC https://padlet.com/karaeshea/wd6ard0rj5xm/wish/287157538 asinging https://padlet.com/karaeshea/wd6ard0rj5xm/wish/287157754 Some teachers have a bulletin board that they post parent communication on in the hall for visiting parents. It has things like the daily schedule and current newsletter posted on it. Depending on how you organize it you could find it valuable to take a picture and post it to your website or email it out]]> 2018-09-28 22:45:15 UTC https://padlet.com/karaeshea/wd6ard0rj5xm/wish/287157754 asinging https://padlet.com/karaeshea/wd6ard0rj5xm/wish/287157853 At the beginning of the year it can be valuable to get the parents' email addresses to create a email group.  I have found that this is most successful as a google form.  I have 4 questions: student name, parent name, email, and best phone number.  Sometimes it is hard to read a parent's handwriting.  It also gives the advantage of being able to copy paste from the response spreadsheet into the email group.

This email group can be used to email whole class reminders and newsletters.]]> 2018-09-28 22:46:53 UTC https://padlet.com/karaeshea/wd6ard0rj5xm/wish/287157853 asinging https://padlet.com/karaeshea/wd6ard0rj5xm/wish/287158135 Sometimes going old school and hand writing a letter means more. It shows that it means enough to you that you took the time to personalize it. Writing on stationary or a card makes an impact.]]> 2018-09-28 22:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/karaeshea/wd6ard0rj5xm/wish/287158135 asinging https://padlet.com/karaeshea/wd6ard0rj5xm/wish/287158236 Having pre-made forms/letters/certificates can make sending home individualized communication simpler. Filling in the child's name and checking off what the parent needs to know can be done fast.]]> 2018-09-28 22:52:35 UTC https://padlet.com/karaeshea/wd6ard0rj5xm/wish/287158236