Share

Sharing is essential, but ensuring a reasonable level of engagement from parents does not happen by itself.

It requires a little effort, but as this has a net effect of raising engagement for kids as well, which improves reflection, and everyone wins!

A critical strategy is to makes these engagements regular homework, some particularly successful strategies with this that have proven to be effective are:

• Share little and often, literally post by post
• Ask students to email their parents with a link to the specific page/post and a short sentence to encourage them to visit.
• Even better is to require some reciprocation from parents - either as something like 2 stars and a wish on a photocopied sheet, or even easier ask the parent to leave a comment on the post*.

To make this easier I've made some sheets you can print off and send home, (attached) and some other variations in the attached GDrive folder in case you want to tweak - Pages of course.

*For parents to be able to leave a comment they will need a gmail address, and they need to be added to the website in share settings, this is once for and for all thing.