Building relationships with families is hard work. Especially with today’s busy parents. If you’re lucky, you’ll see your student’s parents...

I had the opportunity to speak to parent coordinators (those who are the liaison between families and schools) about great tools to stay con...

This article originally appeared at  Partners in Learning - 1:1 Hot Topics .  Family involvement is important to student success in every...

The start of the school year is the perfect time to start connecting with parents and families. When families come in to enroll their chi...

Contact is key. Our constituencies want us to be accessible. However, 24/7 access isn’t always possible, nor should it be.  Chris Casal, the...

In our Web 2.0 world, schools can communicate, connect, interact and engage like never before.  As we leave 2013 behind and move into the ...

If you are responsible for helping to build and strengthen the home-school connection, you’ll want to follow Principal Joe Mazza on Pinteres...

Did you know that anyone (in the US) can receive Tweets on their phone even if they haven’t signed up for Twitter? Twitter Fast Follow ...

With Voki (www.Voki.com) you can share a message using an animated avatar that talks. It is created using a student’s own voice recorded r...

Looking for a way to strengthen the family and community engagement at your school? Take a page from the book of PS 10 in Brooklyn, New York...

This piece was originally posted in SmartBlog on Education . We all know we can use cell phone to make calls, but few realize all the in...

An abridged version of this article was originally posted in SmartBlog on Education . Building the home-school connection is important ...

Poll Everywhere provides a terrific way to capture the thoughts, ideas, and opinions of parents. Simply set up a multiple choice or free re...

School guidance counselor Willyn Webb says that Cel.ly has made a positive improvement for her school’s Parent Accountability Committee (P...

Social media can be a powerful tool to coordinate and connect with parents.  At the school level, this is important work for everyone, fro...

Parents and educators agree that in the age of “ Generation Text ” it is important to be prepared to help children become responsible cit...

Guest post by  David   Bernstein I’m relatively new to the battle for wholesale educational change, but have fast learned that fighting f...

Editor's note: Social media has changed how many innovative educators have watched important current events such as the presidential d...

Upset by what they claimed was misinformation and misperceptions permeated by media coverage, Pearson made a botched attempt to launch a s...

Written by Lisa Nielsen | Edited by Lisa Cooley, The Minds of Kids “Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.” ― George R.R....