What I’m Thankful I Learned About Parent Engagement Ten Years Later

I started teaching ten years ago as a high school English teacher in North Nashville. I had just moved to the city, and even had the exact same job as my mom that year — both of us teaching Freshman English, though she was working at a private school outside of Cincinnati, where I’d grown …

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8 Tips to Help Parents Be Homework Heroes

Schools and teachers play a crucial role in empowering and helping parents to support their students with homework and general academics.  If parents aren’t equipped to help with homework, assigning homework can be painful – or even inequitable. Recently in our Possip surveys, we’ve heard parents asking questions about how to support their student with …

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Helping Parents Help Students Succeed

Parents and schools are on the same team. They both want to help students achieve, learn, and grow. Helping parents help students succeed.  In this Possip Power webinar we share some tips on how schools, teachers, and parents can all play a role in helping students learn and grow at home.  

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Supporting Teachers Through the Season: Part 2

Part 1 of our blog on Supporting Teachers Through the Season (https://www.possipit.com/supporting-teachers/) provided some tips for school leaders to implement if you have overwhelmed teachers know that supporting teachers matters. We know that prioritizing teacher morale and sustainability is essential to overall school success. Dysregulated adults can never create regulated children. School leaders can focus …

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Principal Support This Season: 7 Ideas

Supporting teachers is important this time of year – but so is principal support.  I remember a line from Superman when I was a kid.  Superman has just caught Lois Lane from a falling building. Superman: Easy, miss. I’ve got you. Lois Lane: You, you‘ve got me? Who’s got you? Who Provides Principal Support? As I think about …

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Supporting Teachers: Possip 15-Minute Power Session

Supporting Teachers Through the Season Holiday season can be an exciting time for our students.  But for teachers, it can prove a little stressful.  Supporting teachers is important all year, and especially now! This is a time where teachers have worked hard – but they aren’t always yet to the place where they are seeing …

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Supporting Teachers Through the Season

Supporting teachers matters.  As we head into the holiday season, Possip’s internal research shows that the Thanksgiving holiday can be the start of a high season of teacher turnover and attrition. Further, esearch shows that almost 50% of teachers leave the profession in their first 5 years. http://www.nea.org/tools/17054.htm  The good news is there are things …

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Getting Parents onto Campus – or Engaged if Not

Schools often want to get parents onto campus and engaged.   Yet there are barriers.   In this 15 minute power session, former principal Amanda Richards shares some quick tips for how to get parents onto campus. Also, parents can’t get to campus – so how can you engage them if they can’t! Sign up …

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6 Tips for Teacher Parent Communication: Principal’s Corner

Last week we shared part 1 of our series on teacher parent communication. You can find it here: https://www.possipit.com/teacher-parent-communication-principals-corner/ We know that parents and teachers have diverse needs and wants.  Our last blog shares a bit about how principals can help teachers segment their parents.  We also want to share some tactical steps for teacher …

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