A New Communication Tool Will Be Utilized This Year!
School Reach Assists PC R-I
by Jeremy Watt
August 14, 2008
The facts are in. A strong connection between parental involvement and a child’s scholastic achievement and social adaptability are now well documented in educational research.
"When schools, families, and communities work together to support learning, children tend to do better in school, stay in school longer, and like school more." That's one finding of a January 2003 report from the National Center for Family & Community Connections with Schools at the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory.” Source: National Education Association.
As recognition of this research has filtered through the educational community, schools increasingly look to modern technology to connect with and to parents eager for information on their children’s progress. “Researchers have found that the more active forms of parent involvement produce greater achievement benefits than the more passive ones. That is, if parents receive phone calls, read and sign written communications from the school, and perhaps attend and listen during parent teacher conferences, greater achievement benefits accrue than would be the case with no parent involvement at all. “
Source: Parent Involvement in Education, Kathleen Cotton and Karen Reed Wikelun, as cited on the Northwest Regoinal Educational Library website.
Putnam County R-I is pleased to be able to offer this service to the families it serves. Parents should be aware of a few helpful tips offered in order to make School Reach work most efficiently.
1. 1. Answering machines should be set to answer by the fourth ring.
2. 2. Long messages on answering machines could cause the school's message to you to be cut short
3. 3. Messages with long pauses could cause the school district's message to you to be cut short.
