Teacher Parent Communication: Principal’s Corner

How To Improve Teacher Parent Communication Teacher parent communication. Parents sometimes say “I want better communication with my child’s teacher.”  What does that mean?  And is it really possible?  The short answer is – yes!  There are easier ways to improve teacher to parent communication.  This is part 1 of our 2 part series on …

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Teacher Vacancies Mid-Year: Principal’s Corner

Mid-year teacher vacancies is tough!  The teachers I worked with knew that choosing to leave mid-year was not an option in my mind. Studies show that students who have a teacher leave mid-year lose about 54 days of academic growth compared to those who have a stable teacher all year (see the research here). Teacher retention …

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How Vulnerability Can Be The Key To Getting Parents Engaged (Part Two)

Natalie is a 2nd grade teacher in one of Possip’s partner schools. Recently, she talked with our team about parent engagement, and how she got over her fear of being vulnerable with her students’ parents. This is part two of a two part blog. Read Part One here.   Photo by stem.T4L on Unsplash At the end of …

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Getting Your School a Plan to Respond to Bullying

Last week we blogged about preventative bullying tips.  The reality is, bullying happens even with the best planning. Also, we have found that parents can give grace when their child experiences bullying at school.  However, they can get frustrated when there isn’t a plan to address it.  So this week we’re back with tips on …

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Reacting to Bullying: A Detailed Plan

This post is a more detailed plan of a summary blog post we have. SUMMARY 1- Communicate what you know as soon as possible to parents.  Sometimes we are hesitant to reach out to parents until we have everything – but we really can and should communicate with what we know. 2 – Learn, learn, …

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Rural Schools and Engaged Parents

Seeing Rural Schools From a New Perspective I’ve often thought about engaged parents from the lens of my own experiences with family members who attended rural schools. Moving to New York recently has me thinking a bit differently.  Since I’m originally from Mississippi and Tennessee I find the subway experience fascinating. Between 6-9AM on New …

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How Vulnerability Can Be the Key to Getting Parents Engaged

  Natalie is a 2nd grade teacher in one of Possip’s partner schools. Recently, she talked with our team about parent engagement, and how she got over her fear of being vulnerable with her students’ parents. During Natalie’s first several years of teaching, she taught kindergarten and first grade, and was originally a little nervous …

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5 Reasons to Take a School Tour

In many of our districts and schools across the country, we are starting to enter a time period where parents will need to choose where their child goes to school – whether kindergarten or high school.  This is, admittedly, a huge choice. But here’s the deal!  Whether you are sending your child to your neighborhood …

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Meet Our Team – Michael Dyer

Michael is one of the newest members of the Possip team and has already started to play a vital role in helping Possip reach more schools throughout the country. We talked with him recently about his own experience in school growing up, and how he thinks about Possip as a tool to leverage parent and …

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Preventing Bullying: How Schools and Parents Can Partner

Bullying rates are on the rise. According to a survey done by YouthTruth (https://youthtruthsurvey.org/bullying-today/), 1 in 3 students are bullied in schools. As a parent and principal, seeing a statistic like this is hard.  Is bullying different or is the definition of bullying changing? What are ways we can be active in preventing bullying? The …

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Principal’s Corner: Tutoring Program that Works for Your School and Students

This week, a trending question from parents is after school tutoring. Most of this blog is designed to help schools put on a tutoring program and plan – but parents, scroll to the bottom to see suggestions for how you can support your child if your school doesn’t have tutoring resources available. A tutoring program …

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Principal’s Corner – Reflecting on Parent Engagement as a School Leader

  Photo by NeONBRAND on Unsplash In Amanda’s second year as a principal in Dallas, she knew she needed to make parent engagement a priority. She’d returned to the school district she’d originally taught in after finishing her master’s degree, and she realized that engaging the parents and families of her students would be key to making her …

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Principal’s Corner: 8 Steps to Building an Effective Parent Organization

A recent 2018 survey from the Learning Policy Institute (https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/nassp-understanding-addressing-principal-turnover-review-research-report) found that the fifth highest factor that would help principal retention (behind pay, increased PD, time, and school budget) is having more positive parental support. As a previous principal, I understand the stress that comes with unsatisfied parents. The principal position is so complex and …

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