Borrowing Books: Supporting Home-School Connections (Virtual Tour)

A well organized Borrow-A-Book program engages parents with their child’s reading interests and motivates students to read at home.

From: The Balanced Literacy Diet

A Letter From My Mom | Parent Engagement

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Before school, parents and families write letters to their children.

Questions and reflections:

• How do these children benefit from hearing the letters written by their parents?

• What concepts about print and alphabetic knowledge are the children developing; and which of these concepts transfer between languages?

• How do these dual language learners benefit from this small-group setting, and how can a teacher arrange small-group settings each day?

• What teaching strategies,...

From: Teaching At The Beginning Videos

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PBS KIDS & Virtual Pre-K: Building the Home School Connection | PBS KIDS

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PBS KIDS, as part of the Ready To Learn Initiative has partnered with Virtual Pre-K and Chicago Public Schools to create an interactive program involving parents and teachers to build the home school connection and reinforce math skills for Pre-K.

From: PBS

Related topics : home school connection for parents

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Leading parental engagement initiatives

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Leading parental engagement initiatives

Career Stage - Lead

Main Focus area - 7.3

Secondary Focus area - 6.3

School - St Gabriel’s School

The teachers at St Gabriel’s engage with parents and the community as part of the teaching and learning culture of their school, and use online resources to collect parent feedback. There is a strong emphasis on connecting learning at home with learning at school. The teachers develop relationships by sharing classroom teaching strategies with parents...

From: AITSL

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Benefits of home visits by teachers

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From our free online course, “Introduction to Family Engagement in Education”:

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Parents and educators at Stanton Elementary School in Washington, D.C., explain how home visits became the foundation for important and powerful connections between home and school.

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From: HarvardX

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