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These Communication Resources will provide guidance when it comes to communicating with your students, other teachers, administrators, parents and families.
Featured Video: Teacher and parent relationships - a crucial ingredient: Cecile Carroll
This video from the parent’s perspective shines a light on effective communication strategies she has experienced with her children’s teachers and why they are so meaningful.
Messaging Tools
Discussion Templates
Communicating with Admin
Remind serves
as a communication hub that allows direct messaging between users without distributing personal
phone numbers. Send out messages, files, photos, etc. to parents, students or whole groups.
Requires free account set up.
ClassDojo serves the same purpose as Remind, but with the added bonuses of a Class Story
(think Instagram) and a behavioral management system that allows transparent reviews for students
and their families as well as administrators.
Requires free account set up.
Possip helps people influence the complex places that shape their lives by giving leaders
quick, actionable insights from their large and diverse communities.
Possip has various levels of paid services.
The Parent-Teacher Planning tool from Learning Heroes is a 3 step guide to help teachers communicate with parents about their student’s beginning benchmark data and how to create a learning plan.
If you are looking for something more visually appealing, Teachers Pay Teachers offers a multitude of FREE Parent/Teacher Conference templates to guide you.
Scholastic provides a PDF of a simple Parent/Teacher Conference form.
'Managing Up' in Schools: 4 Ways to Help Your Administrator Help You
This article from Edutopia details four ways to ensure you have efficient and effective
communication with your administrators.