ARD Meetings

ARD Meetings will be scheduled on Wednesdays. There are some times that this might not work, so please be flexible.

Please remember to put yourself in the parent's shoes: I meet parents a lot who are genuinely concerned about their child, but don't know how to help. Whether it's due to a lack of education, support, or understanding, they are having the same problems you are. Try to understand how difficult it must be to have a child with a disability, and be cautious in how you speak about that child with the parent.

Monday Morning Message to Parents - Teachers, this is a best practice that is established here at Carrollton. If you have not started, please start this Monday.

Why? Well, researchers have found that optimal communication between parents and teachers can have a significant impact on the child’s emotional, intellectual, and physical needs. When a child’s development comes at stake, the importance of parent-teacher communication becomes altogether more important.

There are no set guidelines for what should be included in a classroom newsletter, but here are some fair ideas that you can include in yours, depending on the kind of information that you want to give out to the parents –

• Announcement of forthcoming events

• Invitations to class events or open-house meetings

• Reminders

• Lists of things that parents should collect or save for class projects

• Thank you notes for the families who are helping out

• Descriptions of study units and suggestions for ways to complement units at home

• Library Schedule

• Reprints of papers that you think are interesting and should be read

• Explanations of rating policies, standardized assessments, and other ways of measuring and reviewing student performance

• Explanations of expectations of conduct and effects of misbehavior

• Highlights of community resources such as museum displays, plays, concerts, or television shows

• Children’s writing and works of art

• News about classroom outings and celebrations