Here is the letter that Danielle and I crafted, which you are of course welcome to copy and paste and rewrite if you are finding yourself in this kind of situation in your own teaching: Good evening (name of parent), Happy New Year! I appreciate that you communicated your concerns with me. I understand why you would
One of our PLC members received this email from a parent the other day. I asked and received permission to share it with the group. Hello Senora (name of teacher) – Hopefully things are going well for you during these crazy times. My son, (name of student), is a 7th grade student of yours. Thankfully
Far too often, we CI teachers get challenges from our peers – teachers with whom we are supposed to be working on toward common assessments, high frequency verb lists, thematic and semantic units, etc. We also get challenges from helicopter parents, whose success in high school and college at conjugating verbs has led them to
