While inventive spelling may be fine for an early draft, final drafts should have correct spelling. Principals should also ensure that parents and caregivers understand their roles in facilitating learning and what the school specifically expects them to do. Principal and teacher should prompt the family on how to support students' homework. She gave an example of a parent who said she had to work nights and wasn't home to make sure the child finished homework. Dr. Reedom suggested that the responsible caregiver watching the child could be responsible.
Educators teach parents as well.
Principals need to be aware of what is actually going on in the classrooms. Dr. Reedom spends 75 percent of her time in classrooms in a school with 1,000 students attending year-round. Well-organized, highly structured. Classrooms are spatially organized and not cluttered. Routines that foster learning are in place, such as cooperative learning groups where students are on-task and actively engaged in the topic.