I’ll be a guest on next Wednesdays #PTchat on Twitter to discuss:
strategies schools can employ to partner with ESL/ELL families
It will be on on Wednesday, February 17th at 9PM EST.
You can learn more about it at Joe Mazza’s blog.
I’ll be a guest on next Wednesdays #PTchat on Twitter to discuss:
strategies schools can employ to partner with ESL/ELL families
It will be on on Wednesday, February 17th at 9PM EST.
You can learn more about it at Joe Mazza’s blog.
I’m sure most readers of this blog have already heard about the L.A. elementary school where two teachers have been arrested on molestation charges, and the District’s decision to remove all of the teachers at the school.
Parents are justifiably upset about the danger their children were in, and now many appear doubly upset at the decision made (perhaps unilaterally, but that’s not clear to me) by District officials to take so many teachers away from students with whom they have developed relationships.
All I know is what I hear in the media, and it sounds like an awful situation. From what I see in the media reports I have at the end of this post, though, it seems like removing all the teachers with what appears to be minimal input from parents might not have been the wisest choice.
What do you think?
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New staff arrives at embattled Miramonte school in L.A. is from USA Today.
Class Dismissed! Parent Communication Tips for ….. Younger Teachers is a very good article by Roxanna Elden, one of the best writers around.
I’m adding it to The Best Sources Of Parent Engagement Advice For Teachers.
In yet another bizarre and punitive effort to force increased parent involvement, a Washington, D.C. City Council Chairman has announced plans to introduce legislation that would cut-off TANF benefits to parents who didn’t attend parent/teacher conferences and PTA meetings.
He attempted unsuccessfully to do the same thing in 2008.
I’ve previously written many posts and articles about how and why punitive actions like this are terrible ideas.
And I’ll be adding this effort to my list, The Worst Parent Engagement Ideas.
In January , Joe Mazza wrote a guest post about Parent Teacher Chat on Twitter. Joe has accepted my invitation to write a short post on this blog regularly to announce future topics for these chats: