Communication skills
Building Bridges between Schools and Parents
Effective Communication with Parents (Articles)
Standard II
Hunter Huss in Action
100

Even if you can't solve the parent's problem, come across as concerned and ____________

What is Helpful?

100

Language which sounds argumentative or tends to cause conflicts to escalate is called this. 

What is confrontational?

100

This teacher-parent communication system can be an ineffective way for communicating certain things. 

What is E-mailing parents?

100

Using materials or lessons that counteract stereotypes and acknowledges contributions of all cultures

What is culturally relevant teaching?

100

School staff load a bus and travel through the school community with the specific intent to impact student achievement

What is Operational Roll Call?

200

When a teacher could have become angry and focused on a disagreement with a parent, but resists  and instead compliments the parent on caring?

What is professionalism?

What is looking at the positive?

What is redirecting?

What is never done lol :)?

200

Teachers and parents come together as equal partners to form trusting connections, which become the basis for collaboration to support learning. _______ meet families where they are—figuratively and literally—with the goal of creating trust and ultimately improving educational outcomes.

What are home visits?

300

Along with active listening, ____________ is an important technique to show that you are concerned about the parent's concerns and challenges.

What is Empathy?

300

The four stage acronym for Defusing Hostile Parents System

What is CARP?

300

When a teacher moves the conversation from blaming to "here's what WE can do to help the student..."

What is establishing a partnership?

What is problem solving and WE?

300

Student profiles, student surveys, communication with parents and community, use of technology to incorporate cultural awareness into lessons

What are examples of artifacts (to support Standard II)?

400

The belief that is based on an older and outmoded conception of how easy or hard it is to teach.

What is stereotyping?

What is the history of teaching?

400

Posting photographs of individuals from other cultures around the classroom

What is embracing diversity in the school community and in the world?

400

To develop an objective observation of viewing students' environment help us to understand how a student’s culture and background may influence his/her school performance.

What is the purpose of the Community Bus Tour

500

This word describes the cycle of how angry interactions get worse very quickly

What is escalation? (Or What is the Escalation cycle?)

500

Whether considered a poor teacher or poor parent, all people make mistakes especially when under stress.  This happens when both parents and teachers keep in mind that they have the same ultimate goals but different perspectives that should be harnessed to make school life better for each child.

What is Building Bridges between Schools and Parents?

500

This framework houses a triangular intervention service delivery models and seeks to remediate maladaptive learning, behavioral, or social and even criminal conduct

What is MTSS at Hunter Huss?

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