November 18–22, 2013, is American Education Week. This blog is posting on the second day, which is Parents Day, when participating schools invite parents into the classroom to witness a typical day of learning. Of course, by now most of you have had parent-teacher conferences, open houses, curriculum nights, and various after-school activities during which…
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Easing Parent Concerns Over Common Core
Last night I attended my youngest son’s first-grade open house. It was held in the school’s media center (what we used to call a library), not in the classrooms, and served as more of an explanation about the differences between kindergarten and first grade than a meet-and-greet. The open house introduced me to a first-grade…
That First Open House
Do you remember your first school open house? Or do I need to ask Dr. Peabody and Sherman for their Wayback Machine again? Because I sure remember mine. Back then, I was the new deputy on the dusty streets of middle school, flush with the power of my own corner classroom and a license to…