In January, I ended my 30-year career as a high school social studies teacher. I was blindsided one morning when I found over 600 books from my classroom library had been removed. I did not know it ...
Anya Gray Franklin was inspired to go into education by her mother, a St. Louis Public Schools teacher. Franklin grew up watching her mother fight for teachers’ rights, and when she got her degree in ...
Michelle Kay reluctantly raised her hand to volunteer as Parent-Teacher Organization president. Now that she is immersed in the presidency of Bench School PTO, Kay is having fun and enjoying seeing ...
A couple of years ago, in The Great School Rethink, I wrote at some length about the need to reimagine the parent-teacher partnership. In our era of chronic absenteeism, rampant misbehavior, concerns ...
The Krauskopf family’s collaboration and advocacy led to statewide recognition at the Michigan Council for Exceptional ...
(WXYZ) — Thousands of parents will come to schools and classrooms to get facetime with teachers during parent-teacher conferences. There are ways that teachers say ...
(The Center Square) – An education organization is applauding the U.S. Department of Education’s six new agency partnerships announced this week, stating that parents will have more control over their ...
Parent-Teacher Meetings (PTMs) are more than just progress updates; they are opportunities to strengthen the home-school partnership that supports a child’s learning but many parents unintentionally ...
In efforts to deepen its community engagement in St. Louis and beyond, Parents as Teachers (PAT), a non-profit, internationally-recognized leader in early childhood development home visiting, has ...