Good News Today!
Keep a stack of Good News Postcards by your desk at all times. When you see a student doing something positive, jot a quick note to the parents on one of the postcards and give it to the student to take home. If you do that just two or three times a day, every parent should hear some good news every couple of weeks.
Aha! Moments
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Read All About It
Do you send home a weekly or monthly classroom newsletter? Do parents read it? Encourage parents to read the newsletter by including in it a special cut-out coupon they must sign and return. (The coupon also might include an area where parents can write comments or questions to you.) Place the signed coupons in a hat and draw names for special rewards. Attaching rewards to the return of the coupons is an almost sure-fire way to ensure that students will encourage their parents to read the newsletter.
Student-Photo Stationery
Want to make communicating with parents a little special? Take photos of your students and then use the photos to create class stationery with a border of student photos. If your student population is a mobile one, you will want to use a digital camera to take photos since you might have to update the stationery a few times during the year.
Article by Linda Starr
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