It’s that time of year again!

Parents/Children

Anxieties are high! You and your children are preparing for that big day scurrying around malls from store to store finding the perfect uniforms, blue jeans, shirts, tennis shoes, back packs, and more. Some children are looking forward to new opportunities – meeting new teachers, and friends especially, while others dread walking through the door. By now, you know which category your family fits in.

Teachers

Teachers are busy making classroom preparations, filling their bulletin boards with academic content, arranging student desks, posting classroom rules, writing school supply lists, attending staff developments, aligning subject curricula to district expectations, and the like.

School officials (Administrators, Instructional leaders, and Assistant principals)

Administrators are checking their lists and then twice more ensuring safe and orderly classrooms settings, ensuring building infrastructure needs are in place, disseminating rules and regulations for staff members, welcoming newcomers (teachers, students and their parents).

TEACHERS

• Please be prepared to work with all learning styles – Differentiate Instruction (including students with Special Needs, and ESL students)

• Maintain patience and understanding

• Love what you do each day – Think about why you became a teacher – Love the pedagogy and art of teaching. Showcase teacher efficacy daily

• Keep an inviting voice tone – Never scream at your students (our children)

• Initiate Diversity Awareness in positive manners

• Respect your student’s ideas/voices before making final decisions

• Get to know each of your students

• Remain organized and ready to teach once the student enters your classroom

• When parents ask questions most times they are trying to support you and their child – Do not become defensive

PARENTS

• Send your best child to school

• Work with school officials – not against them

• Ask questions when needed

• Expect your child to become dependent (according to age – it’s difficult to let go)

• Expect your child to behave and use great manners/social skills

• Attend school events

• Teach your child to respect authority

• Send your children to bed on time on school nights

• Wake your children up on time on school mornings – Ensure they arrive to school on time

• Start your children off with a good healthy breakfast

• Ensure homework is completed each night

• Ask your child about their school day – Ask if there is anything you should know

To ALL

Everyone is full of enthusiasm as anxieties are running high, so I hope all parties will put their “best foot forward” ensuring our children/your students have the best school year ever. Let us work closely together

Our little ones going to Pre-K or Kindergarten for the first time certainly may have apprehensions unawares, so please be patient with them. Their first impression of school could be left up to parents and teachers

Additional Notes

Let us all work together supporting our most treasured stakeholders – our children.

Stop, Look and Listen to them – If your child reports being bullied, please listen and intervene appropriately.

See my blog post on Bullying titled: My Child is being bullied? Oh, I Don’t Think So!

This blog post entails a step-by-step approach for assisting parents when their child is being bullied.

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