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Creating a Partnership with Parents and Caregivers
Creating a Partnership with Parents and Caregivers
It is equally important to consider parents/caregivers as partners in the educational experience; after all, schools are providing a service to their most precious accomplishment! From the start of the year, you want to leverage this important resource by not only building relationships with students but also with their parents/caregivers.
Use Creating a Partnership with Parents/Caregivers to help guide your thinking on creating a partnership with them.
Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a design partner for strategies for creating a welcoming and affirming environment.
View this sample here: Conversation with Google Gemini on Building Community in Your Classrooms
Consider how you could utilize other AI platforms such as SchoolAI.
See sample surveys below that you can send to parents/caregivers to learn more about their child:
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Like a car dashboard, a learning dashboard offers students and teachers an up-to-date snapshot of progress. This sample dashboard lists discrete skills and allows the student to designate if they are "Getting Started" "Moving Forward," or at the "I Got This!" stage. Teachers support this self assessment as needed.
Learn how to create a Student Learning Dashboard for students to monitor their own progress and for parents to share in their self-assessment and support their growth.
How-To Create a How-To Sheet - Using a how-to sheet requires students to be active participants and provides just-in-time learning to help students become proficient at a skill.
Here are some ideas that you could create for families:
How-to Access [learning management system or other school website] from home
How-to solve [common homework skill/concept]
How-to organize your daily schedule
Example How-to-sheets:
If...Then Cards
If...Then Cards
If . . . then cards are related to cause-and-effect and are a proactive structure for students prone to off-task behavior. One of the most important characteristics for success is the ability to delay gratification: to persist in a task or goal in spite of tempting distractions, and to self-assess to see if the desired outcome and behavior were achieved.. How do we build this valuable executive function skill in our students? Try the "If...Then" cards. See more examples on the EF: Engagement page.
Scenario Building through “What if?” and Visualizing
Dr. Sulla shares that everyday life is filled with cause-and-effect relationships! Mastering this concept and using it strategically can lead to great success in life and career, as it is an important foundational skill for engagement with solving real-world problems. Caregivers/Parents act as an external prefrontal cortex for their child, providing the scaffolding as they build their child’s own internal wiring.
Help caregivers/parents create what if scenarios using cause-and-effect resources found on the EF: Engagement page.
Consider the following sample questions:
What if you are unsure of what to do or what if you begin to feel frustrated?
What if your friends aren’t there to meet you?
What would you do if you cannot get in touch with me and you need a ride?
What would you do if …?
Power Tool: Responsible Decision Making - This responsible decision-making tool helps students make safe, appropriate choices in their daily routines. By identifying situations, choosing realistic options, and recognizing outcomes, students build independence and understand that choices lead to predictable results at school, work, and in the community. Created to support the SDI (Specially Designed Instruction) classroom, but can be modified to be used with any student.
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