Guest Post by Joe Mazza
On Wednesday, June 13th, the #PTchat crew will provide an open chat session to close out the school year and help you create a summer plan to take your family engagement efforts to the next level in 2012-2013.
We’ve covered a great deal of topics this school year. Below are all the 12-13 #PTchat topics and archived chats. What is the biggest family engagement strength at your school? What do you hope to improve upon in 12-13? Join us for a planning session on Wednesday night at 9PM EDT / 6PM PST.
- “Raising Kids to be Good Cyber Citizens w/ Annie Fox“
- “What Parents & Teachers Can Do to Combat Summer Learning Loss“
- “Engaging Dads in Our Schools w/ Mike Hall“
- “Summer Reading Opportunities for K-12 Students”
- “Parents Provide Mock Interview to Teachers on what they most look for in prospective teachers.”
- “Middle/High School Family Engagement Efforts”
- “Flipped Classroom Model & Home-School Implications“
- “Educational Hashtags and Hashtags Chats for Educators and Parents”
- “District Leadership’s Role in Creating Home-School Partnerships“
- “Planning a Comprehensive Parent & Community Volunteer Program at Your School“
- “Sharing Your New Learning w/ Parents
- “Creating a Family Resource Center in your School Lobby”
- “Meaningful Report Card Comments to Engage Parents”
- “Meaningful Homework that Engages Parents”
- “Parent-Teacher Conferences for Partnerships” – From both the parent & the teacher perspective.
- “Schools & Families: Strategies for Showing Appreciation”
- “How Can Schools Partner with ESL/ELL families” w/ Larry Ferlazzo
- “John Halligan tells Ryan’s Story – cyber-bullying, youth depression, suicide”
- “Most innovative/outside the box ideas on communicating w/ parents”
- “When Teachers & Parents Disagree”
- “Parent Leadership Opportunities” w/ Karren Dunkley
- “Promoting a safe school bus- Strategies for schools/parents to prevent bus bullying” w/ Jim Dillon
- “Steps parents & teachers must take to put an end to school bullying” w/ Dr. Michele Borba
- “Goals/Strategies Schools are employing to raise level of family engagement“
- “Supporting Parents at home w/ web resources“