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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To all the teachers out there, how can parents be more helpful this upcoming school year? [/quote]

Thank you so much for asking. Just having you ask means so much.

I know many teachers will offer advice especially for younger learner. I will add some advice that can be important for the middle school /high school student.

1. Get into a routine - Early to bed and early to rise - so that they are ¨in the groove¨ before school starts.

2. Discuss with your student the importance of putting the phone away when they are in class. Emphasize how the cell phone distracts them and makes it difficult to learn complicated concepts.

3. Get organized - Emphasize the importance of doing your homework every night (without your cell phone present). Due dates are there because it helps ¨chunk¨ the learning so that students learn at little bit every night. It is difficult /impossible to learn 2 months of material in 2 days.

4. Sit down with your student once a week to look at grades on Parent Vue. If they tell you they did the work but the teacher has not graded it yet, ask to look at their Canvas account. You will be able to see if they submitted it because the time stamp will show up.

Please remember, we are all a team - teacher, families, and students. We work together. We know you are doing your best for your student. We are doing our best too. Together we can be an effective force to help our students succeed. [/quote]

We look daily on their accounts.  But, as a teacher if a parent emails please respond in 48 hours.[/quote]

Absolutely! Teachers need to respond in 48 hours, if not 1 business day, so that families have the information they need to support their children.

Please keep the suggestions going for what teachers can do to keep up their end of the bargain. With so many changes in technology, it is important to revisit what everyone can do to help. Thank you for the suggestion.

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I answer emails during my planning period. I had no more than one planning period per week from Christmas until June. Teachers aren't being lazy. They are stretched way too thin.[/quote]

This.

There weren’t subs. So we had to do coverage during one of our planning periods and the other one was reserved for meetings. [/quote]

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