Help for Parents Navigating the School System
I've been corraling stories about how to help parents make informed choices about schools and how to judgm how their child's school is doing. Need help figuring out schools? A handy "cheat sheet" of what to ask from the Huffington Post. More questions you should ask your school/district especially around student data privacy . This is a truly great and comprehensive list. A great idea for parents that teachers/administrators use - "learning walks. " From Edutopia: It is an invitation to parents to come to the school for a set period of time (an hour or two), to go on a guided tour of the school/classrooms during the school day. Not to look at the decor - but t o learn more about the learning happening or explore other topics revolving around education and the school . Each tour/learning walk, would have a topic or theme to guide the discussion and help with selection of which classrooms to visit. The thought is more about giving paren...