Parent-Teacher-District Communications for Learning Progress
Parent engagement has a significant impact on student learning progress, comfort, and happiness. Yet few schools or districts have yet designed systems that support ease and variety of two-way communications between district and parent and teacher and parent. We are gathering resources here to see how easy, empowering communications can be integrated into the learning management systems.
Given the explosion of virtual learning during the pandemic, parents have been more involved in student learning providing a possible increase in the impact of parent engagement on student progress as well as an increase in utilization of technology learning tools by teachers, students and parent.
A serious equity gap has widened given the disparity in student devices, Internet access, student, teacheer and parent technology app savvy, and parental knowledge of school processes and the curriculum.
We are gathering research and solutions here with an aim to find or create effective home-school communication to support student learning and family engagement.
Link to Waterford.org website– information and links to research on Parent/Teacher/District communications.
Communication Between Educators and Parents in Title I Elementary
A dissertation on parent/teacher communications, types and impacts, in Title I schools.
Link to comparison of Schoolology, PowerSchool, and TalentLMS– learning management systems with extensive school-home communciations. https://comparisons.financesonline.com/schoology-vs-powerschool
Eric Paper on Two Way Parent Teacher Communication
Enhancing School–Home Communication Through Learning Management System Adoption: Parent and Teacher Perceptions and Practices, by Nora S. Laho (This paper examines usage of various communications methods after implementation of Schoology LMS.)