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More than half of the teachers surveyed think parents do not understand the importance of their involvement in their kids school experience, and they assume education is a teachers job– not a collective effort in between parents and teachers.

Susan Oehlertz, District Technology Integrationist, Pocahontas Area ElementarySusan Oehlertz is the District Technology Integrationist at Pocahontas Area Elementary, and is passionate about finding purposeful methods to integrate innovation into all locations of education who has actually provided at various technology conferences. Follow her blog site here, and find her on Twitter @MrsSOehlertz.

An extreme modification in our communication efforts with parents needed to occur. After investigating numerous platforms to assist with parent-teacher engagement, I found ClassTag, a easy and complimentary interaction platform to address the issue of enhancing teacher and parent conversations.

Parent engagement is a driving aspect behind any childs success in school– but an across the country study of more than 1,000 instructors found that parents are frequently disengaged in their kids learning journey. To harness edtech tools that can help school-home communication, its vital to very first safe and secure instructor buy-in.

As the district innovation integrationist in a rural Title 1 district, I continuously try to find complimentary and/or inexpensive edtech resources that will bridge the communication gap in between parents and instructors. However those resources likewise require teacher buy-in.

Up till a few years ago, our districts primary interaction line with moms and dads was the conventional “old school” format. We would send out countless paper copies of info house with students in their book bags at the end of the week, and those exact same documents were coming back the following week because parents werent examining their kids knapsacks frequently.