Family Friendly Schools

The involvement of families in school life has consistently been shown to have a positive impact on student success. I'm always looking for good ideas about how to make schools more "family-friendly" and read an Eye on Education blog last week that suggested ten useful practices. They include

• Maintaining open lines of communication
• Making positive phone calls
• Cleaning the school before parent meetings
• Hanging student work in classrooms
• Celebrating student success
• Creating a "We Don't Brag" bulletin board to share positive information
• Organizing a family/faculty event
• Post graphs of student achievement
• Holding a contest to encourage attendance at parent meetings
• Encouraging parents to bring a parent of one of their child's friends to a school meeting.

You can get much more detail by clicking on the post. I'd enjoy hearing from you about other things you do to involve families in school life.