This post originally appeared on our ParentSquare Learning Network blog on October 30, 2020.
While the Learning Network continues to create a space for educators to learn from and collaborate with each other, we’re shifting our focus to really hone in on school-home communication best practices.
Last Year: Emerging Topics
The ParentSquare Learning Network launched last year as a place for educators to learn and share their best practices for engaging parents on emerging topics in education like digital citizenship, social emotional learning and mental health in K12, to name a few.
We chose a focus each month and brought in topic experts and K-12 educators to address them, and we’re grateful for the high-quality knowledge and tools brought by the many talented contributors.
But we kept seeing a need for actionable ideas to help improve day-to-day school-home communications. Customers ask us: How can I increase the number of parents that respond? How can we prevent too many messages going out — overwhelming parents and causing message fatigue? What is a healthy range for delivery, message opens, or RSVPs? Why isn’t anyone signing up for our events? Should we continue to create PDFs and attach, or is there a better way?
Moving Forward: Best Practices
So we’re shifting focus to this area! Moving forward, we will showcase best practices and what’s actually working, sourced from our wonderful community of current district leaders, school leaders and educators. We’ll deliver actionable ideas in the form of a monthly Classroom Tip and a District/School Tip. For monthly webinars, we’ll invite K-12 leaders to share their tips, strategies, lessons learned and actionable ideas related to best practices for school-home communication.
It’s so important for educators, staff, admin, parents and students to communicate clearly and stay well-connected, isn’t it? And I think we’d all agree that parent engagement is more critical to student success than ever, in the face of remote learning scenarios and quarantines.
Monthly content from the Learning Network moving forward will include:
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Twitter Chats!
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Webinars showcasing schools, districts and K-12 organizations
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Blog posts with best practices and sample templates for the classroom level and the school or district level
So look out for more coming soon and join our Facebook Community. And if you need help with a certain aspect of school-home communications, let us know. If you have great tips, tactics or tools you think we should share, let us know, too!
We can’t wait to explore school-home communications and learn with you.
