Parent communication ideas for teachers

Communicating with parents as a teacher is beneficial at all grade levels. Read on for teacher-to-parent communication strategies and apps.

Parent involvement matters. In this post, the benefits of having parent support are shared. Parent handouts for teachers are included.

Effective parent teacher communication can make your entire year go more smoothly! In this post, I'm sharing simple tools that you can use to improve parent communication this school year. Click here to take a closer look at these parent teacher communication ideas.

Communicating with families is often the most difficult and overwhelming part of teaching. There's no handbook for teachers to use to improve communication with parents, but we know how valuable positive home-school relationships are to student success. Developing these relationships makes dealing with behavior and academic concerns much easier. This list is a few of […]

Prior to the start of the new school year, I always like to reflect on my relationships with my parents from the previous years. What could I have done better? How can I improve? How can I deepen my relationships with both parents AND students? These aren’t always comfortable questions to ask myself because at …

Not all notes home have to be negative! Here you will find my custom made "Happy Mail" postcards. This has been such a hit in my classroom and parents just love hearing all the wonderful things their children are positively doing in class. This encourages positive parent communication made easy, without the phone call!

I also use short 3-4 question math quizzes for assessments, vocabulary quizzes, and more. Once the form is created, it can be used again, year after year by

Comprehension Connection is a literacy website dedicated to providing teaching tips and resources for instruction for K-5 teachers focusing on comprehension.

One of the first rules of parent communication is documentation. Ideas and a free printable to make documenting and organizing parent communication easy!

Teacher Parent communication is an important part of being an elementary school teacher. When you take steps to build a relationship and are are proactive with positive communication, the rest is so much easier. This blog post dives into 4 easy to use ideas for improving parent communication. From a student questionnaire to a parent note that can be tucked into a child's pencil box, these fresh ideas will pave the way to great communication. Grab the free parent letter too!