Often in schools, students are burdened by different pressures that can impact their social and emotional health. As educators, our job is to help students succeed academically, while also nurturing their social and emotional health - two tasks that can often come into conflict with one another. This graphic organizer and examples on this document are intended to help you think of ways to effectively educate your students while caring for their social and emotional health by identifying what pressures impact students and how teachers and schools can respond to these pressures. Download a copy, and check out our other resources here. How many teachers regularly communicate with parents? According to one study, not enough. Research found that, despite an increase in email communications from schools to parents from 2002 to 2012, the number of parents receiving a school iniaited phone call decreased from 2002 to 2012, as did parent satification with parent-school staff interactions.
How can you increase your communication with parents? Download our free resource to identify what might be preventing communication, and specific steps you can take to get back on track. Scoring is the process of evaluating student work using a rubric. These are crucial practices to ensure that teachers’ and students’ evaluations are valid, reliable, and consistent. To support your school community in the norming and scoring process, The Center for the Professional Education of Teachers has created the SNAP Protocol to align your scoring practices with your school community. Click here to download!
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