AVReading Newsletter April: Creating Community with Families
Creating community in class is important. Reaching out to families on a regular basis is perhaps just as important to that sense of community. Considering our class sizes, this is not an easy or simple task. Still, the advancement of communication systems has allowed us to more easily reach families. It might mean a quick email to a parent or guardian or a mass message sent through the school’s course management system. Letters home through snail mail, conferences, and parent / student orientation nights are also excellent ways to make connections with families. With this said, it is still a struggle. In theory, communicating with families makes a lot of sense. In practice, it is not easy to do. Our school days are so hectic and compressed that in some cases we simply forget to make the call home to touch base. Or perhaps we are so busy putting out immediate fires that we just never really have a ch...