Element III-B-2. Curriculum Support
Regularly updates parents on curriculum throughout the year and suggests strategies for supporting learning at school and home, including appropriate adaptation for students with disabilities or limited English proficiency.
What does this look like in practice? Our collective thoughts:
Memorial
Miscoe
Clough
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Memorial
- High volume of communication regarding students is done via email, report cards and phone communication
- Through Rachel’s Challenge, provide website with class lessons and provide community outreach opportunities
- Newsletters to parents
- Provide volunteer opportunities in the classroom
- IXL, SRI book lists, math handbook, homework packets
- Bilingual letters/reports
- Interpreter
- Investigation/s Family Letter
- Information packet and brochure
- PowerPoint presentation at Open House
- Classroom websites and blogs
- Parent – Teacher conferences
- Reflections
- Portfolios sent home with report cards
- Rubrics for assignments
- Progress notes
Miscoe
- Moodle/Learning platform
- Emails (Group, individual)
- Department Websites
- Alertnow/Connect5/Blackboard
- Homework Now
- Reminder flyers home
- Report cards
- Open house
- Agendas
- Group email to students: zzstudents
- Conferences
- Parent weekly check-ins for struggling students
- Email from students: nighty homework questions
- Monthly newsletter to parents
- Moodle/Learning platform
- Parent phone calls
- Pearsonsuccessnet
- In-person conferences before, after, during school
- Agenda communication
- Daily data charts home-school
- While you were out sheets
- Contact with outside tutors, counselors, doctors…
- Face time
- Curriculum posted on school website
- Teacher/team websites
- Iparent
- Progress reports
- Communicate w/ Special Ed liaison
- Parent information night
- On-line postings-Copies of homework – projects – syllabus – outlines – study guides
- Classroom expectations – test dates
- Individual emails to parents stating expectations
- Resources – to include websites – tutor list – counselor lists
- Homework buddies
- Work goes home to be signed
- Class website
- Investigations family letter
- Friday folders
- Notes in agenda
- Teacher/parent agenda checks
- Sign work below 70
- Notebook checks – parent & student
- Missed homework slips
- Translated copies of notices
- Making parents aware of bigger assignments – sign off on them
- Getting interpreters for non-English speaking families
- Annual IEP meeting
- Fall conferences (and regular meetings)
- Email of study guides & notes for IEP students
Clough
- Pre-requisite: communication skills, writing skills and technology skills
- Questions: websites (teacher's) more integrated - what does this mean and what will it look like? Will district support teacher webpages with money for weebly-pro or similar software, Animoto, etc.
- What does it look like: Family math letter, parent pipelines, newsletter, websites, blogs, emaisl to whole class, individual phone calls, working with support staff to best communicate, conferences, IEP meetings, portfolios and report cards
- Classroom websites
- Periodic conferences
- Math letters for parents
- Math parent nights
- Daily progress reports and behavior charts
- Agendas
- Homework folders
- Investigations newsletters
- Webpage with links and updates
- Parent/teacher conferences and emails
- Translated materials for ELL students
- Take-home folders for daily communication
- Open house
- Suggesting helpful websites and resources
- Topic specific newsletters and emails (math unit topics, etc.)
- Phone calls and home visits (specific literature and articles for community outreach)
- Parent observations and Sped clinics
- Access to computer based program data
- Daily logs/home logs
- Homework individualized
- Social media (Facebook, etc.)
- Feedback notes - self assessments and parent assessment
- Journals/daily logs (parent, teacher and child involvement)
- Open House and conferences
- Email updates
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