Partner Feature – Nashville Classical

Nashville classical was one of Possip’s first partner schools. Their enrollment, parent happiness and teacher satisfaction are all inspiring. We wanted to talk to them a bit about their family engagement mindsets and systems. What are a few things you want to make sure all parents know before the start of the school year? Nashville …

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4 Tips to Quickly Communicate Academic Progress

Parents want to know how their child is doing academically.  Schools can often feel pressure about the best ways to share this information without overburdening teachers or current systems.  There is hope.  There are simple ways schools can share academic progress information.  Also, parents can be an important resource for schools in getting academic information. …

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Immigrant Families Navigating Family Engagement

Isha is a current student who just started her sophomore year at Emory. She is passionate about the immigrant experience and interned with Possip this past summer and is sharing today on our blog a little bit about her experience with parent engagement as the child of immigrants.    Growing up, I always dreaded parent teacher …

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Build Lifelong Learning Thru Parents

Every city is officially back to school.  Yay! This means we’re also back to working with parents, schools and districts on building community and improved parent engagement.  Possip is a learning tool so we are always thinking about lifelong learning.  In that spirit, we wanted to share some ways that parents and schools can work …

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Parents Need A Sense of Belonging Too! 7 Tips to Help Parents Belong

Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us.  – Brene Brown In Possip’s work with schools and districts, we’ve noticed something. Teachers and schools are given so much responsibility for the success of students, they sometimes are left thinking they – the teachers and school administrators – need to …

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Navigating a New School District

Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash When Kate and her family relocated from Portland to a new, larger district this Summer, there was a lot of new. A new job, a new city, and, naturally, new schools for her first and fifth grade kids. In many ways, it was daunting. As a long time educator, though, she thought …

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What If the Principal Rode the Bus?

What if the principal rode the bus? During my third year of teaching, I got an email with a sign up sheet for all the different bus routes during the first few weeks of the school year. It was a bit overwhelming — on top of lesson planning and adjusting to my new schedule (an …

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