Title: Keeping Parents Informed | Scholastic
Headings: Keeping Parents Informed
Keeping Parents Informed
Connect with parents through positive communication, and they will reinforce your behavioral and academic goals.

Content: Electronic notes are fast becoming an important link between teachers and parents. If you have email access at school, take advantage of this powerful tool. Other forms of writing are effective, too. Newsletters, monthly calendars, informal letters or notes, and interim reports are all ways teachers write to parents. In fact, writing is the most frequent form of communication between home and school. There are two types of written messages sent home: messages for the whole class and messages about individual students. Most common among the whole-class messages are the newsletter and the open letter to parents. Most common among the individual messages are the personal notes to parents and weekly or monthly progress reports. Newsletters
Surveys of parents consistently prove that they read school newsletters and consider them a useful source of information.