Last week, Jessica Lander published an article about the correlation between parent engagement in schools and student academic success. She emphasizes the importance of recognizing the different backgrounds that kids come from and utilizing parents as a valuable asset in kids' academic motivation. She also underlines the need to reach out to parents to build a relationship of trust by asking parents what they think their kids need from the school to succeed academically. Building teacher-parent relations parallels building tutor-parent relations because we want the parents of our learners to trust us and feel comfortable communicating with us about their children's needs. What types of questions can we ask our learners' parents to build trust and develop open communication?
http://laschoolreport.com/4-steps-schools-can-take-to-boost-family-engagement-and-make-parents-partners-in-their-kids-success/
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