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Lessons from Teachers: How to Include Families with Limited Formal Education
Parents with limited formal education themselves are often excluded from conversations with their children's schools—but schools can and should do more to proactively include these families. Three veteran teachers share their strategies for doing better.
I Used to Teach. Now I See How Teachers Can Help Parents Cut Through the Noise.
New Orleans Navigator and former teacher Alyssa Owens considers how teachers can break down communication barriers with families.
The Louisiana Parents' Bill of Rights Turns 1: How Are Schools Doing?
Act 547 requires schools to make key pieces of information more accessible to parents. We put ourselves in a parent's shoes to find out how well the new law is working.
Muddled: How Confusing Information from Schools Is Failing American Families
Why do so many parents think their children are doing fine in school, when so many of them aren’t? Maybe it's because the information they receive about student progress is a ridiculous mess.
Students and Families Are Getting Lost in an Avalanche of Confusing Information From Schools
The entire process of communicating the progress of individual students to their families is a mess.
What Schools Need to Know about Louisiana’s Parents’ Bill of Rights
Taking a few basic steps now can help schools meet the new law's requirements and ensure families are getting the information they need.
New Rights for Louisiana Parents
You probably didn’t notice, but Louisiana just made it a lot easier for families to be engaged with their children’s education.
Parents Need Better Report Cards
Confusing report cards are a hidden epidemic in education. Here are some of the most common problems we see in them through our work with families.